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Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games cover artvsWii Sports cover art

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic GamesvsWii Sports

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games leans Execution (Twitch Chaos); Wii Sports leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION5 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic GamesWii Sports

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Wii Sports leans harder on execution: Motion swing timing and accuracy decide every event

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games leans harder on variance: Minigame gimmicks and items inject party randomness

Optimization3 vs 3

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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