Exclusive blue Wiimote, Nunchuk and MotionPlus for lucky Wii Sports Resort visitors

"Microsoft caters to us westerners with for example: netflix, facebook, and lastfm."

Ignoring the obvious fact that we're dealing with a Japanese company, each application listed has nought to do with video games. In fact, I would say Microsoft is actually destroying gaming by distilling our hobby with unneeded diversification.

The boys from Redmond have come to gaming with a PC-mindset. Hell, their first entry was a dumb PC stuffed into the most awful casing. If catering to "Westerners" means unfinished hardware, half baked ideas and single genre solutions, then you're welcome to it.

These applications are merely tools of distraction, and you're sucking at the tit of flashy gaudiness with absent glee. Pathetic.

Bowser, my guess is that you live with your parents still or maybe rent a single room where your TV and your PC are right next to each other, so there's no need for multimedia feature adds on your console. There's no other way I can see where you're coming from, unless it's willful ignorance. Not to mention the state of gaming is as good as it's ever been (and I say this as someone who still has his Commodore VIC-20 cassette peripheral somewhere), so there really hasn't been any distillation.

Actually, you're assuming everybody uses these things regularly, like facebook and netflix. Some of us actually have lives and don't spend our time socializing rather than using social networking sites, or will grab a redbox movie while at the grocery store rather than using netflix because we're too lazy to leave the house. Oh wait, your computer isn't in the same room as your TV, so you need your game system to do everything for you... you may call it convenience, I'll call it laziness. Get out of the house or something, rather than spending all your time on social networking sites, because you, sir, seem like the one who lives with your mother.

Some people buy gaming systems to... I dunno, game?

Who says you can't still play games if there's a new social networking blade on the 360 dashboard? Nobody says you have to use any of the extra features, whether it's multimedia streaming or social networking, but why would you reject the option if it's offered to you for free? It's not like they don't make games anymore.

If you don't have a 360 or a PS3, I guess it's easy to discount how convenient it is to have a complete multimedia box connected to your TV, so you can watch Adult Swim on PlayOn if you missed it that week, or catch up on your shows on Hulu without sitting at your desk, or stream your entire music, photo, and video library from another room. I have a Wii, too, but let's be honest, loading an SD card and opening the Photo Channel doesn't exactly cover it.

the control shouldnt cost 200 on ebay. the snes wii controller is only like $60-100. the blue wiimote with wiimotion + could cost 100-150.

Haha, that was aggressive!

But I don't think Nintendo scammed you with Wii Sports. It was included with your Wii. I'll take any pack-in games with a system launch, it never happens anymore.

As for the motion plus, it sounds like it will be bundled a couple different places. For example, Red Steel 2, Tiger Woods, and Wii Sports Resort will all be available in a bundle with the periph included.