First official lightsaber accessories for Wii announced [update: no Motion Plus]
by Richard Mitchell 
on Jun 25th 2009 4:15PM
There are a few weird, internal reactions a nerd has to deal with when a company -- Bensussen Deutsch & Associates, in this case -- announces that it's creating the first officially licensed
Star Wars lightsaber and blaster accessories for the Wii. On one hand, Wii accessories are, by and large, completely pointless. On the other hand,
they're lightsabers ...
and they light up. On yet another hand (wait ... three hands?) the accessories, including the blaster, clearly don't have enough room to accommodate MotionPlus (as far as we can tell).
Granted, these are being released in conjunction with
Star Wars - The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, which has no MotionPlus support that we're aware of, but come on!
Any lightsaber accessory should have an extra slot for MotionPlus. We don't care if LucasArts ever makes another lightsaber game or not. Hell, we'll pick up
Red Steel 2 and just
pretend we're using a lightsaber. At least, we would, if these accessories supported MotionPlus.
Oh, the Clone Trooper blaster also comes with stickers.
Update: We've confirmed with BDA that neither
Republic Heroes nor its accessories support MotionPlus.
