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2025 · Nintendo · Basketball · Sports

Drag x Drive

Nintendo exclusive

Drag x Drive (pronounced “Drag and Drive”) challenges players to use the mouse controls with both Joy-Con 2 at the same time to intuitively steer, speed up, perform tricks and make plays such as dunks.

Released
14 August 2025
Platforms
Nintendo Switch 2
Genres
BasketballSports
Developers
Nintendo
Publishers
Nintendo
Modes
MultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
Third person
Themes
Action
Country
Japan
Age ratings
PEGI 3CERO AGRAC ALLUSK 0CLASS_IND LACB GESRB E
Languages
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, English (UK), French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain)
Directors
Yoshinori Konishi

About

Drag x Drive is a 2025 sports video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch 2. The game resembles wheelchair basketball and has players compete in 3v3 matches. The game was designed to take advantage of the Joy-Con 2's mouse mode, with players using motion controls to mimic using a wheelchair to move.

Drag x Drive was one of the first titles revealed for the Nintendo Switch 2 during its debut Nintendo Direct. It released on August 14, 2025, to mixed reviews.

Keywords

  • basketball
  • team-based
  • dual mouse controls
  • joycon2 mouse controlled

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Gameplay

Drag x Drive is a sports video game centered around wheelchair basketball. The player controls a robot in a wheelchair-like vehicle with the goal of shooting a basketball into the opponent's basket. Matches are split between two teams of threes with the goal of scoring more points than the other team by the end of the match. The player controls the robot using the Joy-Con 2's mouse mode to mimic the motions of using a wheelchair.

Each Joy-Con controls one wheel; moving both Joy-Con moves the wheelchair forward, whereas moving only one turns it. Due to the Joy-Con 2's haptic feedback, performing this motion imitates surfaces such as concrete through vibrations. Shooting the ball requires the use of motion controls, with the player required to raise their arms and flick the Joy-Con whilst aiming at the hoop. Depending on how far the player throws the ball, the more points earned when scoring.

Development

Drag x Drive was announced during an April 2025 Nintendo Direct presentation focused on the Nintendo Switch 2, slated for Summer 2025. The game was made available to play for both journalists and the public during Nintendo Switch 2 Experience events.

After the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, the Nintendo Today! app confirmed a release date of August 14 alongside a live demo between August 9-10. The demo, Drag x Drive Global Jam, allowed Nintendo Switch Online members to try the game before the final release. The title released August 14, 2025, exclusively on the Nintendo eShop.

Reception

Upon the announcement of the game, some critics praised the game for representing disabilities in a positive light, with Alana Hagues from Nintendo Life writing how it was a fantastic spotlight of wheelchair sports, as well as disabilities in sports as a whole, due to a lack of wheelchair sports representation within video games. However, Video Games Chronicle's Chris Scullion noted how he thought it was strange Nintendo avoided calling them wheelchairs in favour of vehicles, believing Nintendo was "being overly squeamish about a future scandal that will never happen, instead of embracing the game’s disabled representation".

Feedback on the gameplay overall was mixed, with some journalists who attended Nintendo Switch 2 preview events recount feeling aches and pains after playing, with Hagues reporting it as "a workout for your arms". However, other critics responded more positively to the gameplay, with Kate Kozuch from Tom's Guide praising the controls as feeling immersive, mentioning the game having "serious competitive potential". Writing for Nintendojo, Robert Marrujo described the controls as feeling natural and easy to learn, noting that the controls felt "arcade-like". Many critics compared Drag x Drive's aesthetics and gameplay to the 2015 video game Rocket League, with GamesRadar+'s Rollin Bishop characterising the gameplay of Drag x Drive "something akin to Rocket League combined with Wii Sports Resort's basketball and wind-up cars".

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Nintendo Switch 214 August 2025Worldwide

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