{"id":393895,"date":"2026-01-07T12:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393895\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:46:17","slug":"mario-tennis-fever-will-have-38-playable-characters-a-new-high-for-the-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393895\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Tennis Fever Will Have 38 Playable Characters &#8211; A New High For The Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo could surprise us with a bananza of characters.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo of America started the year off with a record breaker.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mario-Tennis-Fever-Nintendo-Switch-2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>They made this <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/2008599447186333885?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announcement<\/a> on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>This should be easy.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-order #MarioTennisFever and play as Daisy, Peach, and 36 other characters:<\/p>\n<p>Does Mario Tennis Need More Characters?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve only played the console Mario Tennis games, you may not have known that the portable games usually have more playable characters.<\/p>\n<p>This is because the portable Mario Tennis games turn out to be more like RPGs than the 3D arcade sports action of the console games.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Tennis: Power Tour on the Game Boy Advance currently holds the record at 36 playable characters.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Nintendo Switch allowed Nintendo to merge the arcade and RPG sides of the franchise for the first time. Mario Tennis Aces has 30 playable characters.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know all of Mario Tennis Fever\u2019s playable characters yet, but you shouldn\u2019t expect any Super Smash Bros. or Mario Kart style crossovers. But Nintendo could still surprise us with some cameos from Donkey Kong Bananza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo could surprise us with a bananza of characters. Nintendo of America started the year off with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,166785,10755,82,27067,593],"class_list":["post-393895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mario-tennis-fever","tag-nintendo","tag-sports","tag-switch-2","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}