I suppose president Satoru Iwata already did his best to apologize to jaded gamers over Nintendo's less than impressive showing at E3, but it appears that he may want to extend those apologies even further. According to several third-party developers that approached Game Informer at the recent trade show, the Wii's lack of storage space isn't Nintendo's only problem at the moment. Somehow, they forgot to include those outside of their inner first-party circle in their plans to create the MotionPlus add-on for the Wiimote.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this is a massive hindrance to third-party games taking advantage of the peripheral anytime soon. It's just an opinion, but Nintendo might want to stop counting their cash for a moment, and rethink the long- term plans of the Wii. MotionPlus was the only exciting news to come out of the Nintendo camp during E3, and to see its potential squandered at the onset is the biggest possible shame Nintendo has brought on itself in a long time.
[Nintendo Wii Fanboy, via engadget -- Thanks, Jonathan]
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9:07 AM on 07.24.2008
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I'm so happy I built a gaming PC. I know PC gaming gets a bad rap these days.. but there are so many options!
I know what it's like to be working on something, only to realize a better option was always there (albeit hidden) that could have made the product better and more in line with what the development team wanted in the first place. Sucksville!
But, they are, as stated in the conference, shipping out dev kits for it already. I think announcing it without some third party titles attached was a bad idea. Waiting until TGS, after companies at least have time to plan around the tech, might have been a better move for them?
I'm just hoping the reason we haven't heard more about Red Steel II is that Ubisoft is actively re-evaluating/reworking to account for Motion Plus
Yeah, crap like this comes out like once every couple days about one of the consoles, yet PC gaming is declared dead about once a week. :-/