Destructoid editors manned a good chunk of a center row pretty close to the stage this year at Nintendo's E3 presentation. We could even see Cammie's teleprompter eyes. When the Wii MotionPlus perpherial was finally announced on stage, we all looked at each other as if to say another Nintendo add-on? Great. Superb.
Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime said that the MotionPlus was a planned addition from the start. He explained in an interview with VentureBeat that they were aware of the technology back when the Wii was originally designed. They say that it was just that the cost was too high for the business model, so they held off.
"By waiting about three years, the costs come down substantially and it becomes a viable product," said Fils-Aime.
I don't know if I believe that. From the product showing we saw at E3, the games did not look like titles that came from 3 years of knowledge about the perpherial. And we've heard that some of the third-party developers were taken by surprise at E3.
Was it really so expensive that they couldn't add it on in the first place? Edge points out that Nintendo chief Satoru Iwata said in August, "...The cost of making the Wii Motion Plus is not that much, so I think we can make it very affordable." Did the price really change that much in 3 years?
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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11:39 AM on 10.06.2008
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seriously WTF?
So it really wasn't financially viable to sell the Motion+ back then.
Is Nintendo to blame for basically everything wrong in gaming today?
Everyone who owns a Wii will buy this, and Nintendo will own a little more of their souls.
I'm no nintendo fanboy, but I think most of the many millions of people who have a Wii would not call it 'shoddy.' It works, it plays games. If it exploded, or if the motion sensor only sensed up and down or down and left, then you'd have a case.
Or they just release it now instead of doing it before and admitting that their motion crap wasn't nearly as precise as they swore it was.
Its the same in every single case. Brand new tech is significantly more expensive than the same or similar tech three years later. Is it frustrating for current users (who don't think the Wii is a "ripoff") to have to buy more accessories again? Sure is. Would I have bought a wii two years ago for $350? Probably not.
Lets face it. Nintendo knows a helluva lot more about this business than you haters do; they're the ones making millions of dollars. Just because they're not sending geishas to your home to fellate you whenever you power on the Wii doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing.
I mean, it's only the star feature of the machine. No sense cheaping out on technology that people don't understand, right?
This is THIS years loot grab.
Wait until they release a High Def system and then want another $300 bucks and then some to have the games you already enjoy in high def.
I own a lot of the carts from the NES SNES and N64. I'm not giving them MORE loot to have these games on the NEW system.
I've already paid for these games, AND systems, and I refuse to pay them AGAIN to play on the new system.
Fuck you Nintendo, you've done too many "shoddy" business deals to warrant me buying anything more from you.
Sony gets my props because I can still play my old games on their new system.