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Nintendo Announces Wii MotionPlus
Posted By: Patrick Roche-Sowa - Monday, July 14, 2008 9:51 AM

Nintendo just announced their new motion-sensing peripheral, the Wii MotionPlus, as an addition to the Wiimote. As far as we can tell, the Wii MotionPlus is a small, white plastic box that snaps on to the bottom of the Wiimote where you would plug in the Nunchuck. Supposedly, the Wii MotionPlus will more accuratly reflection movements in a 3-D space, giving players a true 1:1 response between their Wiimote and the action on screen. Not much more information is available, but as soon as we get the details as to what makes this magic white plastic box so special, we'll let you know.

Nintendo.com: Introducing Wii MotionPlus




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Posted by little_eddy - Monday, July 14, 2008 10:08 AM
i think it's good to have better accurate response since spore it coming to the wii.

Posted by cmdluke - Monday, July 14, 2008 10:15 AM
cool. should make it easier for them to make fluid motion controls for action games. =)

Posted by bullet53 - Monday, July 14, 2008 10:26 AM
i hope star wars the force unleashed supports this add-on

Posted by nintendopwnsallbitch - Monday, July 14, 2008 10:35 AM
i hope they make a more accurate nunchuk, i had such a bitch of a time trying to shield bash in tp

Posted by little_eddy - Monday, July 14, 2008 10:48 AM
i want different color wii's

Posted by XXalsXX - Monday, July 14, 2008 11:20 AM
that will defiantly be helpful for games.

Posted by fanboy07 - Monday, July 14, 2008 11:41 AM
yeah this should be really interesting and yes i agree little_eddy we should have dfferent color wiis and wiimotes i want green, red, and blue lol.
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Posted by youenjoymyself - Monday, July 14, 2008 11:41 AM
so i guess the Nunchuck cant be used with this because it plugs into its spot??

Posted by iTHuNKie - Monday, July 14, 2008 11:48 AM
you can just buy wii housings.... for your console and the Wiimotes, i have a transparent blue one on my Wiimote right now..... but aside from that, this is just another thing that im going to have to buy for my Wii, especially if it is for the Forced Unleashed

Posted by MrSword1 - Monday, July 14, 2008 12:31 PM
@youenjoymyself

If you look on the bottom of the Motion plus you can see where the nunchuck would go.

Posted by RickAmes - Monday, July 14, 2008 12:38 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =KyvIlKSA0BA&feature=related < br />
Watch the above video to understand how accurate the Wiimote is currently (not very) and then see how much more accurate it could be. (Around 50s is where you should start paying attention)

This add-on could very possibly function like the add-on discussed in that video.

Seriously, take a look G4 Webmaster, at least you will be impressed.


Next Look at this Site for more cool things the Wiimote could do if Nintendo want to give us it's full potential.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnn y/projects/wii/

Thank you for reading all the way through, and I hope you learned something of what the Wii could actualy do if it wasn't so limited by Nintendo.

Posted by RickAmes - Monday, July 14, 2008 12:49 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =KyvIlKSA0BA&feature=related < br />
Watch the above video to understand how accurate the Wiimote is currently (not very) and then see how much more accurate it could be. (Around 50s is where you should start paying attention)

This add-on could very possibly function like the add-on discussed in that video.

Seriously, take a look G4 Webmaster, at least you will be impressed.


Next Look at this Site for more cool things the Wiimote could do if Nintendo want to give us it's full potential.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnn y/projects/wii/

Thank you for reading all the way through, and I hope you learned something of what the Wii could actualy do if it wasn't so limited by Nintendo.

Posted by GoldLyon86 - Monday, July 14, 2008 1:13 PM
I think this would be good for such games as Red Steel (The popular game nobody played). I cant wait to see what else Nintendo is going to release!
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Posted by siavm - Monday, July 14, 2008 1:33 PM
I hope this can be used in all wii games.

Posted by YunkerFlav - Monday, July 14, 2008 3:54 PM
i hope its free hahaha

Posted by ensoriki - Monday, July 14, 2008 6:33 PM
Im buying this then, hell ya =P

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