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The Wii’s Motion-plus sensor was announced at E3 as the answer to a lot of programmer’s wishes (and probably some demands).
The Wii Remote is a good invention, it’s really worked well for Nintendo, but it does fall down when you try to map someone’s movements exactly, with a sword for instance. The Wii Motion-plus (which will be launched alongside and packaged with the sequel to Wii Sports) corrects this by allowing far more range of movement.
But the question is, will anyone accept this as being a good upgrade to the Wii Remote or simply say that Nintendo really should have been able to provide this range of movement with the original Wii Remote?
There is no question that the Motion-plus is necessary. It will open up a lot more possibilities in FPS games and hand to hand combat, as well as generally providing greater interaction than before, but there are those that will see it as a cash in and even insinuate that this was planned all along to make more money for Nintendo. It’s far more likely, of course, that Nintendo just didn’t have the technology at the time of the Wii’s creation and have only now, after some considerable research, had time to create something better.
Others may point to the storage space of the Wii’s SD cards as being the number one priority, though rumours are suggesting this will also be done during 2008 with some sort of Hard Drive add-on.
Whether or not Nintendo have launched this at the right time, the peripheral will live or die on the strength of the games that use it going forward. As much as many will want to deride the high flying Nintendo, it looks as though they’re trying to improve things further when they could have left the upgrade for the Wii 2 (which is already being worked on).
Thoughts?
The Wii Remote is a good invention, it’s really worked well for Nintendo, but it does fall down when you try to map someone’s movements exactly, with a sword for instance. The Wii Motion-plus (which will be launched alongside and packaged with the sequel to Wii Sports) corrects this by allowing far more range of movement.
But the question is, will anyone accept this as being a good upgrade to the Wii Remote or simply say that Nintendo really should have been able to provide this range of movement with the original Wii Remote?
There is no question that the Motion-plus is necessary. It will open up a lot more possibilities in FPS games and hand to hand combat, as well as generally providing greater interaction than before, but there are those that will see it as a cash in and even insinuate that this was planned all along to make more money for Nintendo. It’s far more likely, of course, that Nintendo just didn’t have the technology at the time of the Wii’s creation and have only now, after some considerable research, had time to create something better.
Others may point to the storage space of the Wii’s SD cards as being the number one priority, though rumours are suggesting this will also be done during 2008 with some sort of Hard Drive add-on.
Whether or not Nintendo have launched this at the right time, the peripheral will live or die on the strength of the games that use it going forward. As much as many will want to deride the high flying Nintendo, it looks as though they’re trying to improve things further when they could have left the upgrade for the Wii 2 (which is already being worked on).
Thoughts?
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The Wii’s Motion-plus sensor was announced at E3 as the answer to a lot of programmer’s wishes (and probably some demands).
The Wii Remote is a good invention, it’s really worked well for Nintendo, but it does fall down when you try to map someone’s movements exactly, with a sword for instance. The Wii Motion-plus (which will be launched alongside and packaged with the sequel to Wii Sports) corrects this by allowing far more range of movement.
But the question is, will anyone accept this as being a good upgrade to the Wii Remote or simply say that Nintendo really should have been able to provide this range of movement with the original Wii Remote?
There is no question that the Motion-plus is necessary. It will open up a lot more possibilities in FPS games and hand to hand combat, as well as generally providing greater interaction than before, but there are those that will see it as a cash in and even insinuate that this was planned all along to make more money for Nintendo. It’s far more likely, of course, that Nintendo just didn’t have the technology at the time of the Wii’s creation and have only now, after some considerable research, had time to create something better.
Others may point to the storage space of the Wii’s SD cards as being the number one priority, though rumours are suggesting this will also be done during 2008 with some sort of Hard Drive add-on.
Whether or not Nintendo have launched this at the right time, the peripheral will live or die on the strength of the games that use it going forward. As much as many will want to deride the high flying Nintendo, it looks as though they’re trying to improve things further when they could have left the upgrade for the Wii 2 (which is already being worked on).
Thoughts?
The Wii Remote is a good invention, it’s really worked well for Nintendo, but it does fall down when you try to map someone’s movements exactly, with a sword for instance. The Wii Motion-plus (which will be launched alongside and packaged with the sequel to Wii Sports) corrects this by allowing far more range of movement.
But the question is, will anyone accept this as being a good upgrade to the Wii Remote or simply say that Nintendo really should have been able to provide this range of movement with the original Wii Remote?
There is no question that the Motion-plus is necessary. It will open up a lot more possibilities in FPS games and hand to hand combat, as well as generally providing greater interaction than before, but there are those that will see it as a cash in and even insinuate that this was planned all along to make more money for Nintendo. It’s far more likely, of course, that Nintendo just didn’t have the technology at the time of the Wii’s creation and have only now, after some considerable research, had time to create something better.
Others may point to the storage space of the Wii’s SD cards as being the number one priority, though rumours are suggesting this will also be done during 2008 with some sort of Hard Drive add-on.
Whether or not Nintendo have launched this at the right time, the peripheral will live or die on the strength of the games that use it going forward. As much as many will want to deride the high flying Nintendo, it looks as though they’re trying to improve things further when they could have left the upgrade for the Wii 2 (which is already being worked on).
Thoughts?