{"id":135963,"date":"2026-02-07T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-197189"},"modified":"2026-02-07T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:30:00","slug":"mario-tennis-fever-demo-now-available-at-switch-2-kiosks-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/07\/mario-tennis-fever-demo-now-available-at-switch-2-kiosks-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Tennis Fever Demo Now Available At Switch 2 Kiosks (North America)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/90a7a6f4224af\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/90a7a6f4224af\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"90a7a6f4224af\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Mario Tennis Fever\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/90a7a6f4224af\/mario-tennis-fever.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/90a7a6f4224af\/mario-tennis-fever.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"562\" alt=\"Mario Tennis Fever\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-tennis-fever\">Mario Tennis Fever<\/a> launches for the Switch 2 next week, and if you want to try out the game before it&#8217;s released and happen to be located in North America, there&#8217;s now a free in-store demo.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s available at select Best Buy, GameStop, Target and Walmart Stores in the US. And in Canada, you can take to the court at Best Buy and Walmart.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s in-store Switch 2 kiosks have also offered demos for games such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/donkey-kong-bananza\">Donkey Kong Bananza<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_4_beyond\">Metroid Prime 4: Beyond<\/a>. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s no mention of this latest first-party demo being made available on the eShop (<em>at least yet<\/em>), but if we hear any updates, we&#8217;ll let you know.<\/p>\n<p>Although we didn&#8217;t share a full preview of this title, Nintendo Life staff writer Ollie Reynolds recently went hands on with the new entry, and thinks Mario Tennis fans will be &#8220;absolutely thrilled&#8221; with the new title. We&#8217;ve also done a previews round up if you would like to find out more about this new game.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube with-primis\" data-videoid=\"eupNT9gjjko\" data-start=\"517\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eupNT9gjjko?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;start=517\"><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In some related news, earlier this week, Nintendo announced it would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/retail-locations\/san-francisco\/serve-up-fun-mario-tennis-fever-feb-12-nintendo-san-francisco\/\">hosting special launch events<\/a> for Mario Tennis Fever at its stores in New York and San Francisco. These events will feature the game demo, photo ops, a gift alongside the purchase of the title and more.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:196981 @ 1770453560 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Will you be checking out this Mario Tennis demo before the full game arrives on 12th February? <em>Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Mario Tennis Fever launches for the Switch 2 next week, and if you want to try out the game before it&#8217;s released and happen to be located in North America, there&#8217;s now a free in-store demo. It&#8217;s available at select Best Buy, GameStop, Target and Walmart Stores in the US. And in Canada, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}