Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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.
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.
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Posted Nov 8, 2009 11:57 am PT
I've seen a little bit about this Wii motion plus thing on Good Game (Good Game Episode 24, 2009.) were they reviewed Wii Sports Resort, which isn't meant to be that good by the way, but they really liked Wii motion plus. But that was only because it increased sensitivity, which in my opinion is a good thing, but the Wii controllers should be made to have this Wii motion plus thing in them when you buy them, instead of having to go out and buy it, just because for a console that uses these kind of controllers, needs to be as sensative as posible.
Posted Nov 8, 2009 11:39 pm PT
Yeah I was thinking about not buying it, and especially not buying to all my controllers. The variety of good games is too scarce, I may wait for the situation to get better than just assume it will get better.
Thanks for your opinions.
Thanks for your opinions.
Posted Nov 10, 2009 5:31 am PT
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Oh also: pfft, yeah right. The only games that will use motion plus are the ones released at the very end of the Wii's life cycle. So like 2012 (for a really great game, not some 7.5 game that was able to use the M+ "satisfactorily"). But it's really late in this gen. Seriously I'd be surprised if a triple A game from Nintendo incorporated this pathetic accessory (read: Zelda. Or the possibility of it that is)
Anyways what I really want to say was Wii Sports Resort was very underwhelming. Very. I'll wait 10 years for virtual reality, thank you very much. The motion plus gimmick wasn't that fun to play when I was at a friend's house, and unless you're a very enthusiastic gamer who has to get everything, I would say save your money for something that counts
.Sorry if I sound bitter, it's just that things have really changed from when I first started getting into in-depth video gaming (that being 2007) and I'm really disappointed with the way some things have turned out.