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Wii Motion Plus Release Date

May 5, 2009

wii-motion-plusWell it seems like a long time ago since Nintendo first announced their Wii Motion Plus system as an improvement to their already successful motion-based control system for the Nintendo Wii console – and indeed it has been a long time, it’s nearly a year since E3 2008 at which it was first announced, but we’ve finally got word of the Wii Motion Plus release date.

I don’t personally have a Wii, but have played on them in the past and have been quite impressed by what they are capable of, however until I saw the videos over on our original coverage of the Wii Motion Plus system, I wasn’t aware of the limitations of the Wii motion sensors – mainly that it was only able to differentiate large sweeping movements, but then most games to date had been designed with this constraint in mind, so you may not have noticed it that much.

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Wii Motion Plus

August 25, 2008

wii-motion-plusNintendo are set to release a new attachment for the Wiimote called ‘Wii Motion Plus’.

The idea behind this is to improve the responsiveness of the Wiimote and make every little movement count and make it a true 1:1 experience.

All you need to do it plug the Motion Plus into the bottom of the Wiimote to give you a more realistic control over what you do on screen.

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