Nintendo's Wii MotionPlus add-on makes the Wii Remote a true 1:1 motion controller

[Hunter]

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/07/wiimotion2.jpg (http://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/eMMuRj_N6vntHPDycCJAKWhEO9zBvyPH)


While we saw it hinted at in patents (http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/10/blazepro-ships-wii-classic-controller-nintendo-hints-at-first-p/), Nintendo is springing quite the doozy on us at E3 in the form of its new Wii MotionPlus add-on. Perhaps in a preemptive strike against supposed Wiimote competition from the likes of Microsoft (http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/07/microsoft-working-on-360-wiimote-killer/) and Sony (http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/sonys-wiimote-competitor-to-come-as-break-apart-dualshock-3/), Nintendo is beefing up its motion support with this add-on, which is supposed to proved "an unmatched level of precision and immersion," with sensors to supplement the accelerometer and sensor bar to provide 1:1 motion -- as in, I move my arm this much, my character moves his arm that much. So far that's all we know about the unit, Nintendo will be detailing more at its E3 media briefing tomorrow

View article... (http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/335233767/)

[Conjoshus]

BWAHAHAHAHHAAA!!! All that work and Microsoft didn't announce anything for motion waggle wands :).

Still.. 1:1 is awesome in my book! Bout damn time...

[shinjirod]

Nice to hear about 1:1. this should help take some games to the next level. The star wars game comes to my mind for some reason...

[ngt]

hopefully we will finally get some wii SPORTS games with real players that are as good as the actual games in Wii Sports.

[DarthArcturus]

hopefully we will finally get some wii SPORTS games with real players that are as good as the actual games in Wii Sports.

Yeah that would be really nice!

[Specineff]

Great, now we have to pay another 30 dollars or so for something that should have been done from the beginning.

Fuck Nintendo. Twice.

[Conjoshus]

Great, now we have to pay another 30 dollars or so for something that should have been done from the beginning.

Fuck Nintendo. Twice.

Agreed. I expecteed this from the start

[jp]

Agreed. I expecteed this from the start

This is true. I remember him predicting this.

[Conjoshus]

Maybe they will finally get the games I want on the console now! I hope anyway

[shinjirod]

its annoying that you have to buy the add on, but at least it comes with the new wii sports which i was gonna get regardless.

[ngt]

its annoying that you have to buy the add on, but at least it comes with the new wii sports which i was gonna get regardless.

that's enough alone to get me to grab that....but I'll need 4 of them :( That's going to suck.

[shinjirod]

hopefully many of the games are turn based like in the first, so ill do with only 2

[mr_chun]

Too bad the Lightsaber Dueling game comes out before this attachment does. Thanks a lot Nintendo, you could have at least given Lucasarts the heads up.

[ngt]

Too bad the Lightsaber Dueling game comes out before this attachment does. Thanks a lot Nintendo, you could have at least given Lucasarts the heads up.


LOL!

I can see these selling out in stores and going for $50-60+ on craigslist and ebay. Make your wii "better"...and everyone will fight over them. I remember how hard it was to find regular controllers for the first year.

[Frogacuda]

Nintendo are dicks for not letting third parties have access to this sooner. I talked to a lot of angry developers with games coming out this fall that won't be able to support this because they were kept out of the loop.

[mr_chun]

Oh, but Frog, they couldn't possibly let someone release something that utilizes their new breakthrough before they do!

[Conjoshus]

it wasn't even a big enough announcement to warrant keeping the 3rd parties out of the loop.

[Hunter]

Apparently Nintendo failed to notify third parties about this beforehand. :|





http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/07/7-23-08-motionplus_hands_on.jpg (http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200807/N08.0721.1542.23275.htm)


We weren't terribly impressed (http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/nintendo-motionplus-hands-on-blah/) with Nintendo's recently unveiled MotionPlus add-on, but we're even more disappointed by this. Reportedly, scads of third-party developers revealed at E3 that the Big N's latest Wiimote accessory was just as much a surprise to them as it was to any of us. In other words, Nintendo didn't bother giving its external devs any advance notice in order to get the ball rolling on compatible titles, or so it seems. Unfortunately, this also means that we probably won't see any MotionPlus-ready games hitting shelves from anyone not named Nintendo for months to come, but it's not like Wii Sports Resort can't hold our attention for a solid year, right

[Via Nintendo Wii Fanboy (http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2008/07/22/motionplus-totally-ambushes-third-party-developers/)]

Read (http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200807/N08.0721.1542.23275.htm) |

[Basil]

Well isn't that just peachy. Though since we won't be seeing the accessory until 09 anyway, I guess that gives the devs enough time to work on it...?

[Specineff]

That's just as bad as when Sega launched the Saturn five months in advance. LOL@ Sony and Nintendo. If it weren't for their portable systems, I guess they'd be in a heap of trouble.

[Hunter]

Well Nintendo is making a killing off of Wii, so even without DS they'd be doing awesome.

[Newport420]

To quote Metallica......... Sad but truuuuuuuuue!!!!!! :(