PPA Pickleball Tour 2025 Releases
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LOS ANGELES, CA, July 29, in the year
of our Lord 2024 - Pickleball is the fastest growing
sport in America and now can be played on Nintendo Switch with
today’s launch of PPA Pickleball Tour 2025. Developer FarSight
Studiosworked closely with the Professional Pickleball
Association (PPA Tour) to create the most realistic, authentic
and fun Pickleball videogame on the market.
PPA Pickleball Tour 2025 is the only officially licensed
Pickleball game available and the first to feature the world’s
best players in real PPA Tour venues. Get ready to hit dinks,
drives, ernes, ATPs, overhead smashes and test your reflexes in
dink battles and fire fights!
The game is perfect for Pickleball players of all skill sets, or
for those that just love the sport. PPA Pickleball Tour 2025
launched earlier this month for Xbox, PlayStation (PS4 and PS5)
and Steam. The game is available for all platforms for $49.99 at
PPA Pickleball Tour 2025.
Game Features Include: • Play With More Than 16 PPA Pros - PPA
Pickleball Tour 2025 features over 16 of the world’s best
players, including the #1 ranked men’s player (Ben Johns) and #1
ranked women’s player (Anna Leigh Waters). Gamers can also
create their own character and play in “Career Mode” or “Quick
Play” and will experience motion captured player movement for
every pro in the game.
• Collect Your Favorite Brands - Show your style with real-world
Pickleball brands. Collect and equip your player with the latest
paddles, shoes, and apparel from top brands including Selkirk,
JOOLA, FILA, Paddletek, Vulcan, Os1st, Versix and Thorlo.
• Create Your Own Character - Design your player’s look, style,
and abilities to reflect your unique personality and playstyle.
• Career Mode - Players can level and increase their playing
skills by competing and winning simulated PPA Tour events, in
singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Each tournament event
features single elimination brackets where the competition gets
tougher as you progress further in the tournament. Winning a
triple crown in Hard Mode is the ultimate achievement in Career
Mode.
• Quick Play - Perfect for a quick game, players can choose
their character and hit the court for some competitive singles
or doubles action. Outwit and outplay advanced AI developed from
analyzing professional matches
• Experience Different Venues - Compete for a Triple Crown in
PPA Tour events set at iconic venues in San Clemente, CA or
Atlanta, GA in Career Mode.
“As the popularity of Pickleball continues to boom, we are proud
to bring PPA Pickleball Tour 2025, the first officially licensed
Pickleball video game, to market, allowing the tens of millions
of Pickleball players to enjoy the sport on Xbox, PlayStation
and Steam,” said Bobby King, CEO of FarSight Studios, developers
of PPA Pickleball Tour 2025. “Whether you’re strategizing how to
beat your opponent with an Erne or testing your reflexes in a
Firefight against Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns, this game has
everything you love about the fastest growing sport in the USA!”
“Pickleball has truly gone mainstream, as players of all ages
and skills are taking up the game, enjoying time with friends
and getting some great exercise,” said Parker Roberts, VP of
Revenue of the PPA. “The launch of PPA Pickleball Tour 2025
represents the latest step in the game’s explosive growth and
will help bring the sport to millions of new players.”
FarSight Studios and the PPA today also announced that they are
bringing the game on the road, to professional Pickleball events
around the country, with a booth on-site allowing fans in
attendance to try the new game. Events include:
• Overland Park, KS, Aug 7-11
• Bristol, TN, Aug 14-18
• Salt Lake City, Aug 21-25
• Las Vegas, NV, Aug 26 - Sep 1
• Peachtree Corners, GA, Sep 11-15
• Virginia Beach, VA, Sep 30 - Oct 6
• Las Vegas, NV, Oct 9 - 13
Pickleball Facts: • Pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in
America, with a 52% increase in participants from 2022-2023,
more than 33 percentage points higher than the next
fastest-growing sport. (Source: SFIA)
• With current and projected ticket sales and anticipated
revenue soaring, the PPA Tour is on track for a staggering 110%
increase (more than 2x) in ticket sales from 2023 to 2024.
• More than 20 Million people watched PPA Tour events live in
2023 across ESPN, CBS, Amazon Prime Video, Fox Sports and more.
• The 130 contracted athletes on the PPA Tour will earn more
than $30M in prize money and payouts in 2024. The Top 5 Ranked
players on the PPA Tour will average $1.5M this year in prize
money and payouts.
• Players 18-34 make up the largest percentage of Pickleball
players at 28.8% nationwide
• Pickleball is the Official Sport of the State of Washington •
In the summer of 1965, Pickleball was founded by Joel Pritchard,
Bill Bell and Barney McCallum on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Within days, Joan Pritchard had come up with the name “pickle
ball”—a reference to the thrown-together leftover non-starters
in the “pickle boat” of crew races.
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