Wii Motion Plus
Nintendo 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.
People thought that is was the games that weren’t making use of the Wiimote properly (ie Red Steel), but it turns out that the remote wasn’t as responsive as it could be, hence the Wii Motion Plus.
It’s set to be released with Wii Sports Resort which features a set of new games and events that make particular use the increased accuracy of the Wii Motion Plus.
There’s been no release date as yet, but keep yours eyes peeled, because this will be one thing you don’t want to miss out on - if you take a look at these videos below you’ll how this can make a difference to playing with your Wii, ultimately Wii Motion Plus means in the future you could even ‘accurately’ wield a lightsaber!
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I can’t help but think that Nintendo are now trying to sell us the same thing again, I didn’t know until now about the limitations of the original motion sensors - a little sneaky I think - ah well that would explain why we haven’t seen a lightsaber game already!
That said, it’s good to see that Nintendo aren’t just resting on their laurels and are actually continuing to develop the current Wii rather than holding this technology advance back for the Wii’s successor.
“I didn’t know until now about the limitations of the original motion sensors”
lol I know, right?
It was funny - on the episode of Gametrailers TV that had Jeff interviewing Reggie about the motion plus, Reggie said that “With the Wii motion plus, games can now recognize subtle gestures such as slightly turning your wrist”. I couldn’t help but wonder how exactly that’s different than turning your curser on the main menu.
MP has a couple of issues - for one, it’s success depends on developers making games for it, and doing things with them that couldn’t have been done without it. How exactly will they do that? Will they make games that simply require it to play it at all, or will you be able to play using a non-MP control scheme? If it’s the latter, then either non-MPers will be playing a dumbed down version of the game, or people with MP won’t be getting all that much of a difference. Either way doesn’t look too pretty.
Secondly, how are they going to convince people that it’s a necessity? With Wii Sports Resort, I fail to see how any of those games couldn’t have been made with the standard remote. Maybe I’m just ignorant, but keep in mind that I’m what they call a “core gamer” that owns a Wii - and if they haven’t yet convinced me that it’s worthwhile, how will they convince the even more ignorant casual gamer?
Then again, who knows, it might actually be easier for them to court that type of gamer. Regardless, I’m certainly not sold, and I hope they have some aces up their sleeve, or this thing could be a disaster.
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I read that Nintendo is now working hard to produce this stuff in affordable price. Hopefully the price won’t be surprising once it is launching. Considering the function I think the production cost is tend to high.