Introducing Wii MotionPlus
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Nintendo's upcoming Wii MotionPlus accessory for the revolutionary Wii Remote controller again redefines game control, by more quickly and accurately reflecting motions in a 3-D space. The Wii MotionPlus accessory attaches to the end of the Wii Remote and, combined with the accelerometer and the sensor bar, allows for more comprehensive tracking of a player’s arm position and orientation, providing players with an unmatched level of precision and immersion. Every slight movement players make with their wrist or arm is rendered identically in real time on the screen, providing a true 1:1 response in their game play. The Wii MotionPlus accessory reconfirms Nintendo’s commitment to making games intuitive and accessible for everyone. Nintendo will reveal more details about the Wii MotionPlus accessory and other topics Tuesday morning at its E3 media briefing.
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Nintendo will probably bundle with wii music and make millions probablys!
This is Nintendo's pre-emptive strike against MS's upcoming motion controller for the 360.
Either Nintendo work extremely fast or it has been in the works a while and they have just waited to launch it.
Personally, i think this is a gimmick. My games work perfectly fine just now without adding bit on to the remote.
Surely this opens up possibilities of true sword fights (a new Zelda could be quality
And obviously, even more precise sport actions - I'm still holding on to the hope of a cricket game.
At least it's just a little block that plugs into the Wiimote. If you can attach it and leave it there without having to remove it each time for older games I don't mind too much.
Unless it's something totally novel that I have no idea about I can't see what it can be other than gyro. They're going to have to make some new Wii Remote Jackets though!
[edit] Not to mention the cost. A modular controller design is good in theory, but the total cost of all three components is going to be prety high given that remote and nunchuk so far is around £45.
It might be a sonar-type device. It says something in the PR about measuring where your arms and hands are through the holes. That suggests sonar to me but I don't see how it will really help with the motion-sensing.
/Can't.
This has to be a joke.
If so, the game this comes bundled with would have to be awesome, as I'm having trouble getting excited by this too!
I have really enjoyed the types of games I've bought thus far. The ExciteTrucks, the PES's, the Mario Galaxy's and Zelda's. But a fan of drivel and further plastic tack ons I am not. I don't go for Raving Rabbids or Frisbee Championship, and I don't go for expensive pointless bits of plastic that get one airing and then done.
OK, we're yet to hear the actual press release with this thing, but a number of concerns immediately occur to me. How much, for starters? What games will it be used for? Will it add anything to games I already have? And crucially, how can this thing improve third party efforts?
I see only more barriers really. Am I, after spending £35-45 on a Wii remote and nunchuck, going to want to spend another however much on one of these things? My immediate answer is no, not really thanks. I always felt the nunchuck should have come bundled with the remote, and hated spending £15 on top of the remote for one, so spending yet again on further control "enhancements" is not my ideal scenario.
OK, bundle it with a game. Then it becomes the bit of plastic that only works with one game, and everyone else who didn't buy that game doesn't bother picking it up because it doesn't work on any other games, so it gets shunted to the back of the cupboard.
Still, there's always the maniacs on Ebay that just love to pay through the nose for second hand Nintendo gear, so it might be worth buying it, keeping it sealed in carbonite, and selling it on in space year 2079 for a small fortune.
If you didn't guess already, I'm not impressed. One bit.
I actually think some of the third party developers suffer because the motion sensing is not accurate enough at the moment and they can't get it to work the way they would like while Nintendo have more of an idea what will work and what won't with the Wiimote and develop the controls accordingly. Obviously you'll still get the odd developer just taking on waggle controls to games out of lazyness.
Then came the "69.99:eek: OMG! im not paying that as its not worth it and way too much for what it is".
Then what happens is that Wiifit gets released and Nintendo cannot keep up with demand.
I think i'll wait until tomorrow for E3 and the comming weeks/months before passing judgement until I see whats actually in the pipeline.
Its also said that it will improve the motion sensing on current games, making it more adept at picking up motions (I myself have had several times like on Zelda when this happened and it didnt recognise what I wanted it to do)
There will be a Wii Sports 2? Hopefully they'll announce a new Zelda game, and a date for Wii Music (and an American release date for Wii Chess
They did it with the console itself on launch and now with wii-fit..
so why not continue the trend with everything else they make?? Morons!
The game would be coming out regardless. How is it pointless?