Now that I've finally gotten my Wii out of the box, I went for some games. Many WiiWare games interest me -- Mega Man 9, World of Goo, Contra. Several virtual console are worth re-checking -- Mario Bros, Castlevania, Mega Man. Some other physical game releases are interesting, some are worth checking out, some not so much, I hope I can find something good in the middle of it all. I get some games, I find fun on some of them but then it hit me: I still don't have that "Wii Motion Plus" thingy, some say it's the next best thing to have when it come to Wii, hardcore stuff, I say ok I'll get it. I look online just to see how the prices are going and all, only for me to decide I should go to a store some time next week. Well, I'm sincerely not interested in Wii Sports Resort. Maybe I should just get Tiger Woods 10 and pay the extra cash and get the others separately for the rest of the controllers. There's two or three games I'm looking forward to check out and some of them take advantage of this little "add-on to enhance the gaming experience" like Nintendo once charmingly said.

But now I've been giving some more thoughts on the matter and I'm quite reluctant on purchasing it. I'll burn quite an amount of cash just to "fix" all my controllers? After all, as much as Nintendo would like me to believe this device is only for those willing to go beyond and experience more immersion in their gaming needs, I know this is not it. This is the correction of a problem, like PC games shipped with bugs and glitches somewhere within, only for later the developers give us patches to eliminate any previously undetected problem. I feel like I shouldn't have to buy this thing. Think about it, if this thing really "enhances" the experience, it means it is better, right? If it's better, why wouldn't everyone want it? Of course very few developers use this right now, but in the future not far away I hope, what we now call a simply "add-on" will be mandatory. Essential for decent releases, because softhouses only looking to earn some easy dough over the Wii's massive casual userbase won't bother, they'll just create something snappy and say it's like "nothing you've ever seen", and it'll work.

Now the Wii installed base is of roughly 55 million people, and right now 2 to 5 million have this little thing (according to GameSpot). That's very supportive for developers to start creating games to take advantage of this Motion Plus huh? But Nintendo was already struggling to get more third party support without it, I imagine how this will turn out when it comes to all this.

I think Nintendo should ship this thing to my house with a note saying: "I'm sorry we sold you an unfinished product, here's the fix! Cya!". Quite a dream I'm having huh? After all, what are they waiting to start making controllers with this thing already implemented? To that I don't have an answer, or maybe I have.

I bought a component cable for my Wii yesterday, I went in a store without much pretension and found a good price for it, then decided to buy. I still have some Wii purchases to make but that will be for another time and blog entry -- and a rant.

As for the cable itself I decided it's not worth to go for a Nintendo original cable, the price is way higher and the gain is the same. Durability doesn't even come to play these days for Nintendo's side anymore. The image improvement is noticeable and is actually more than I had expected, which doesn't say much because when it comes to Wii I've been having incredibly low expectations. In 480p the image is brighter, less opaque and slightly more vivid. But that comes at a price, the screen tends to be a little more pixelated, making the edges less smooth. I'm playing on a HDTV with a native resolution of 1080p.

In the end, I think it was a good purchase, it makes the Wii's graphics look a little less bad. As for getting the Nintendo branded product, I don't recommend, they obviously inflate the price just because "It's from Nintendo", any other cable will do just fine.

A list full of great releases, there's too many good games in such a short period of time -- not that I'm complaining.

Dirt 2
Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Maybe the one Wii game I was actually looking forward to.)
Contra ReBirth (Gotta love Contra.)
Need for Speed: Shift (A new Need for Speed is always something, and for the looks of it, it can actually turn out to be a series' best.)
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (DS being awesome, with a title containing the names of three of the most iconic characters in Nintendo's history, just can't be bad.)
NHL 10
Scribblenauts (Awesomeness. Been looking forward for this one.)
Wet

Honorable mentions include a new Naruto game for the DS -- not exactly the Naruto I want, I'm actually trying to get Naruto Rise of a Ninja for the Xbox 360. Solid PC releases of good games, Resident Evil 5 and Batman: Arkham Asylum. Also the highly anticipated, but for me not so much, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2. Not forgetting the new release for Rock Band, The Beatles, which received a great score here on Gamespot -- even though I don't like neither rhythm games nor The Beatles (yes, I don't like 'em, I should rot in hell). Not bad, not bad at all for a week.

Personally, the ones I want to play the most are Need for Speed and Scribblenauts, though the ones above are all great releases which I'll eventually come to play.