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.

Hebes24 wrote:This looks interesting. I wonder how much it'll really affect the sensitivity.

Dohnutt wrote:

Hebes24 wrote:This looks interesting. I wonder how much it'll really affect the sensitivity.

I'm definitely gonna wait for some reviews of it before I get it.

Rekubot wrote:Nintendo has only shown this new Wii Sports Resort game to be compatible with WiiMotion Plus, and it doesn't look particularly exciting to me. Nintendo also neglected to tell third party companies that they were making it, which means it will be a long while before we see non-Nintendo developed games taking advantage of this new peripheral.

Maveritchell wrote:

Rekubot wrote:Nintendo has only shown this new Wii Sports Resort game to be compatible with WiiMotion Plus, and it doesn't look particularly exciting to me. Nintendo also neglected to tell third party companies that they were making it, which means it will be a long while before we see non-Nintendo developed games taking advantage of this new peripheral.

That sounds like an inaccurate assessment of the situation, unless you have more information on this than what those two articles wrote. Yes, they mentioned some specific features of this addon being used to enhance Wii Sports Resort; but it sounds like this addon is more of an upgrade than anything else. I believe it'll allow the Wii itself to recieve more accurate positioning and motion information - and that should integrate into already published games, just serving the purpose of making the controls tighter.

Super_Shadowman wrote:Why the heck would you need to buy something extra to improve the remote's functionality, something like that should have been included in the first place when you bought the thing! This is like they're saying that the motion sensors that you get when buying a Wii are poor... Which, according to my non-successful Rocky streak in Wii boxing, they are.

Super_Shadowman wrote:The motion sensors leave a lot to be desired in a couple of games, such as wii sports and Okami. Since they obviously had the technology to fix this, they should have made it work properly before releasing the console! What if you bought a computer package including a keyboard (The only kind that works on that computer) which only registers 50% of your input commands, only to later having to buy a separate and better version of the keyboard from the same sellers? It's not illegal, but it's cheap.

Maveritchell wrote:Heck, even if they've had this upgrade available for two years now (which I highly doubt), they may have held off thinking that it wasn't marketable to have a Wiimote that cost $40 instead of $30 or $20.

Super_Shadowman wrote:Whoa, the keyboard isn't broken, it just needs an upgrade. You upgrade to get a better graphics card/processor/hard drive, so why not a keyboard? Or a controller for a console? Hey, let's make people pay for an upgrade that prevents the red ring of death thing on the Xbox while we're at it! And even if they didn't have that technology back then, they have it now. They can still do this thing justice by keeping prices really low or make it an extra with some of the games, but my guess is that they won't.

*Aggressively tries to draw a straight line in Okami*

How can drawing something with a pen-like object be so much harder than using a joystick!?

Dohnutt wrote:

Super_Shadowman wrote:Whoa, the keyboard isn't broken, it just needs an upgrade. You upgrade to get a better graphics card/processor/hard drive, so why not a keyboard? Or a controller for a console? Hey, let's make people pay for an upgrade that prevents the red ring of death thing on the Xbox while we're at it! And even if they didn't have that technology back then, they have it now. They can still do this thing justice by keeping prices really low or make it an extra with some of the games, but my guess is that they won't.

*Aggressively tries to draw a straight line in Okami*

How can drawing something with a pen-like object be so much harder than using a joystick!?

Well it seems like you're just looking at this from a pessimistic point of view, so I won't even try.

Super_Shadowman wrote:Whoa, the keyboard isn't broken, it just needs an upgrade. You upgrade to get a better graphics card/processor/hard drive, so why not a keyboard? Or a controller for a console? Hey, let's make people pay for an upgrade that prevents the red ring of death thing on the Xbox while we're at it! And even if they didn't have that technology back then, they have it now. They can still do this thing justice by keeping prices really low or make it an extra with some of the games, but my guess is that they won't.

*Aggressively tries to draw a straight line in Okami*

How can drawing something with a pen-like object be so much harder than using a joystick!?

Super_Shadowman wrote:This is not an add-on, this is a fix for poor motion controls. My point is that the motion controls shouldn't have been poor in the first place!