Golf Story was originally a much smaller game, and was planned for release on Wii U

The following comes from a RedBull interview with Sidebar's Andrew Newey...

"We're two people in Queensland, Australia. We worked on some smaller games on and off for about eight years, and eventually decided to try and make a console game, so we signed up to become Wii U developers near the end of the Wii U. It was just a small game at first, since we wanted to get something out before the Wii U ended, but it kind of got out of hand, with too many ideas. We managed to move it over to Switch thanks to Nintendo being interested in it."

Well it's obvious the Wii U version didn't work out, and it seems that was for the best. Now we have a much larger, fully-featured game on the Switch!

from GoNintendo