De Blob dev cautious about WiiMotion Plus

I think nintendo is going to make a lot of money no matter what people think, as has been the trend of late...

WM+ is a gift to the hardcore. It main uses will be sword-fighting, some FPS, and possibly driving. Unless it sells very well, few casual games will utilize it.

Waggle will never die!

the simplest things to an end-user is the most horrendously complex piece of logical conundrum to implement.

Be thankful they provide a simple to use API for the motion plus.

I don't think it'll be implemented nearly as much as people would be led to believe, much like a lot of peripherals, not just on the Wii.

Thats pretty sad if updating the motion controls to act more realistic will stress people out because of complexity.

Screw gestures

Without nunchuck support the WM+ seems relegated to on-rails sword fights to me. You can't even make a decent 2D fighter without a d-pad or analog stick. The one on the Wiimote won't work and you know it.

Like any gaming innovation, regardless of the technical merits what it comes down to is "can I do anything fun with it that I couldn't do without it?" I'll have to wait and see how it's utilized, but my guess is the Wii's (primary) market won't notice and/or care.

what he says does make sense, but not everyone has to make use of the wii motion plus in their games.

I mean who wants arthritis in the long run from swinging the wii remote all the time

"I think the majority of people that play on the Wii want something very simple that they can just immediately get their heads around..."

What's more simple than a thing that works just as I expect it to work? With the Wiimote right now there are some really quirky compromises when it comes to movement recognition. I think the Motion+ will be a nice step further but the next generation will all have that type of technology in one way or another.

It's just another option, which is how it will be used in the end. There will be the odd game that will require it (like its flagship Wii Sports Resort, or certain action games that could be made more epic with it), but it'll just be another scheme at the end of the day, sitting next to Wiimote solo, Wiimote n' Nunchuk, Classic Controller, GameCube controller

It might "complicate" things in that sense, but the issue of how much it sells will be negligible.

He's right. The people who would appreciate something like this are in a small minority of the Wii target audience. If this was a PS360 peripheral it would be a different story. The next (non-duct tape) Wii will probably get a lot out of this.

I was expecting a type of 1:1 virtual arm game where you could reach forward with the Wiimote and gripping A+B would make your in-game hand grip an object. Am I the only one who thought that was a given? Does that sound lame?

That was after i saw that very first trailer unveiling the Wiimote , with all the pantomiming players. The dentist, the fishing, the fly-swatting. That was in 2006. It's going to be THREE years since the trailer before that promise gets delivered on.

If anyone even thinks of my arm game. :(

I just want a really well done, 1st person perspective sword fighting game. Come on Nintendo...

Translation: We're worried that we'll have to actually put effort into making games rather than spewing out cheap crap for morons to buy.

Is De Blob being made in Texas? That's one of the few places on earth where people are easily confused and enraged.

I am torn...I have found that I don't really like the Wii. Not because its "kiddie" or any of that nonsense. But because I always have this nagging tick at the back of my mind that it is not interpretting my input correctly.

When I play a golf game with a gamepad, after maybe 6-12 swings I get the feeling of it and can from there on do what I want without too much worrying about the power guage.

With the Wii, after a full year, every single golf swing feels like a random affair and I have never, ever "gotten the feel". Maybe that's just me, but the prompt asked for my opinon so...

I think the WM+ will just heighten this psychological hichup. Now I will be caught in the mental conundrum, "Really? But I did the swing exaclty the same as last time...or I thought I did...is it reading my actions right...and now I have the WM+, am I just unable to swing my arm in a regular fasion...CRAP! I swung that exactly the same as last time!...or I thought I did...and I have the WM+..."

Yah, re-reading that I have to move closer to "probably just me."

You guys who say that it won't be used by devs have seem to forgotten that it comes packaged in with Wii Sports Resort... AKA the sequel to the 1 Wii game EVERYBODY owns. For sure it will sell, WSR will probably do WiiPlay-like numbers, well maybe not THAT high, but it will still sell enough to be used by most devs.

And I'm calling it a hardware patch. I'm not going to pay for that (the wii has been gathering dust for months anyways).

wii is awsome and all but de blob sucks