RSSMotionPlus Wii controllers: The most expensive in console gaming
By Tim Conneally | Published April 14, 2009, 4:23 PM
Nintendo announced last summer that it would be updating its Wiimote controllers with an add-on called MotionPlus that promises "true 1:1 response in gameplay." Now, the peripheral has a price and a US launch date.
Similar to the way Wii Play was packaged with an additional Wiimote, the $49.99 Wii Sports Resort will include the MotionPlus controller add-on, and will ship on July 26. It will also be available individually for $19.99. The unit, which plugs into the bottom port on the Wiimote, will not enhance the control of all games. Rather, it will only affect MotionPlus-compatible titles, which with the exception of Red Steel 2 by UbiSoft, will likely all be sports games.
MotionPlus adds an additional rotational sensor to the Wiimote to allow finer-tuned movements on screen. While many have praised the add-on for making the Wii's controller even more accurate, just as many have criticized Nintendo for creating the potential for the most expensive four-player controller setup out of all the consoles.
Based upon Amazon's prices, for example, a single Wii remote with MotionPlus and Nunchuck would cost $73.92. Even without the Nunchuck portion, the controller would still retail for $55.96. By comparison, a new PlayStation 3 Dualshock 3 Wireless controller costs $42.99, and an Xbox 360 wireless controller costs $36.99.
Nintendo is so smart. They keep bringing out one add-on after another while soccer moms step over each other to buy them, like the WiiFit.
Here, spend another blah blah blah to improve your existing controllers. The sheeple will be lining up to give away their money. God forbid my six year old daughter doesn't have 1:1 response while playing Da Blob.
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|Agreed. Look - if it was your business you'd be ecstatic to be able to keep coming up with new ways to garner profits and grow your own company. Nintendo is just doing what any other company would do and, while I think the controller is expensive, they have it - and you want it! OK well maybe YOU don't for sure but lots of other people out there will, as Hollywood__ put it, "step over each other to buy them."
I like money :)
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