Miyamoto: Wii MotionPlus technology only possible now

by Griffin McElroy on Jul 21st 2009 3:40PM

Don't even start weaving conspiracies about how Nintendo's recently released Wii MotionPlus peripheral was supposed to be incorporated in the initial Wiimote design. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, such a nickel-and-dime plot is absolutely impossible -- and as we all know, Miyamoto never lies. Look at him, with those pinchable cheeks! Those are not the cheeks of a liar.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Shiggy explained the MotionPlus was only possible due to technological innovations "which took place after Wii launched." Actually, he says the technology was around, but it would have been impossible to use at such a "compact" size and low price. So, did you want Wiimotes to cost $200 and weigh as much as toddlers? No? We didn't think so.

[Via IGN]

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Tags: miyamoto, Nintendo, peripheral, shigeru-miyamoto, technology, Wii, wii-motionplus, wiimote

Reader Comments (62)

yeah sure, and youre really wearing that shirt....

As many times as I've seen that picture, I never realized he wasn't actually wearing the shirt.

It's what you do when you get a shirt as a gift that's so horrendous, you don't even want to put it on all the way...

i will take it.

as he sits atop a mountain of porn.

Lucky bastard

LOL!!!!

Seriously but we all knew this already right?

Didn't Shiggy/Iwata address this like back in early '07 too?

I just hope MS doesn't charge at $100 for Natal. That would be stupid considering how cheap WM+ and is supposedly better.

lol wut?

Ok, that was grammar on my part. Ignore this comment, don't know what I was thinking.

semi off-topic:

I've been looking around for deals on new DS games and I saw that Gamestop has Dark Spire for $10. Since it cost so little, I decided I'd buy 2 more games along side it. I decided that when I go, I'll also pick up Professor Layton. Heres where the trouble starts, I've narrowed down my choices for the 3rd game to 5 options; Front Mission ($20), Valkyrie Profile ($20), Final Fantasy Tactics A2 ($30), Disgaea DS ($30), and Fire Emblem ($30). All 5 are great SRPGs, and I can't decide which one to get.

Anyone have any advice?

If you want something you can play for a very, very long time, get FFTA2. If you want something that's more purely strategic, a good deal less complex, but equally more fun, go for Fire Emblem

does the cutesy art style get in the way a lot? I mean, I like colorful games as much as the next guy but seeing a video of A2 made me want to vomit lollipops and unicorns

I really didn't pay too much attention to it. The game's charm comes almost strictly from its incessant calls for you to micromanage everything. It could be an ASCII game and still have the majority of its charm intact

Oh, and A2's story blows chunks, at least imo

Why was this downvoted exactly? I see no problem here. Seems like a perfectly legitimate question.

cause it was off-topic, i guess.

Because going off-topic is frowned upon here at Joysti-HAHAHAHAHAHA

sorry, couldn't get through that with a straight face

Get all of them, downL the Roms from web , buy the ds cartridge sd card from Asian comp store, saves u $ get more games

It took me nearly 100 hours to do all of the missions in FFTA2. That one gets my vote.

Ew, stategy rpgs? nonono. go old school, and go gameboy. golden sun series. less than $20 for both.

but if you have to... fire emblem

@RiCKY NGu�EN

Dude, pirate all you want, just don't be an ass.

isn't that what sony said with their eyetoy camera???

you don't understand! this is ONLY possible because of the power of the Wii!

No i think that was actually sony who has trademarked the "only possilble on PS3"

Take a look at some of these http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=07L&num=20&ei=qSFmSvSCIoKSsgO1-Jn2Dg&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=only+possible+on+the+PS3&spell=1

The eye toy camera was capable of amazing things even back on the PS2 but no body had the guts to try using it. Nintendo comes along with their waggle wand and people cant line up fast enough, but developers STILL dont know what to do with it so the only people who can make even a remotely compelling experience with it is Nintendo. Sony's tactic is to take the controller and not try to make fancy games but simply to say "make regular games that use this and oh btw you can do fancy things with the camera that you cant do with a wiimote."

Perfectly logical really.

I trust Miyamoto that that may be true.

HOWEVER, that doesn't change the fact that what Nintendo promised originally with the Wii's launch was essentially what the MotionPlus does now...

So...whether it was possible then or not, Nintendo still promised it, and let many people (myself included) down at launch on this one. I haven't tested MotionPlus, but hopefully it's what Wii owners everywhere have deserved for several years. They really should have given these away like with the rubber jackets--players paid for their Wii + Remotes assuming this technology was already in there.

Regardless, hope this improves Wii development in the future--I was so disappointed that after Smash Bros and Mario Kart didn't quite work for me, I got rid of the Wii. If this proves to work out the way it's alleged to, I may eventually pick up a new one...

that picture shows why shiggy is awesome. also, is there any chance of me getting a joystiq katamari shirt? no? ok then...

Miyamoto would never lie to me. He's like a second father to me.

not.

He has spoken. Consider this a closed topic.

It certainly could have saved the gaming world a lot of grief if they had just bitten the bullet and gone with it back then (whether they ate the expense themselves, or passed it on), though it really wouldn't have made that much of a difference, aside from making Red Steel and Twilight Princess a little better, and possibly allowing LucasArts more time to work on the inevitable, obligatory Lightsaber game.

Certainly wouldn't have helped some of their own best work on Wii: Brawl, Kart (basic tilt), MP3 (whose excellence was derived from the pointer), and Super Mario Galaxy

Oh, and i guess it could have made for a slightly more epic No More Heroes, but Suda himself is unsure about how much, if at all, M+ will be applied for NMH2

Size was a factor, too. The MotionPlus adds to the length of the Wiimote already, but it would have needed more space to include even more chips to detect motion on all the axes back then that the Sixense chip does today.

@Mike Sylvester

So are we ever going to get another edition of Revolutionary?

Hey, Shiggy! I know that you read these threads and all, so I know that you'll get this message. Use your pull and tell the big wigs at Ninty's executive offices to show the Virtual Console some love and GIVE US SOME GOOD GAMES!!!!!!!!

Sure Miyamoto, and the graphics fidelity of the PS3's "4D" graphics is only achievable because of the Cell "broadband" processor.

:yawn:

Sorry, got sidetracked.

Oh my god! It's Malcolm in Middle!

Why would he lie?

*thinks of a hundred reasons why he might lie*

Well, it's here now so they need to stop making regular Wiimotes and start selling WiimotePlus and MotionPlus adapters. Of course they won't do that but cause they probably like the idea of customers paying $80 for the complete functionality of titles that are just around the corner. Anyone think they might actually add the motionplus tech directly into the wiimote?

@nought: Its $90

i was going to call bullshit until you cleared that up at the end saying the tech wasn't compact enough.

now i'm still calling bullshit, it could have been done - they just didn't have or didn't want to gamble by investing the bells.

still getting wii sports resort and a second mp unit (maybe)

Why is he holding up 3 fingers with his right hand? Is he trying to tell us something?

Anyways, Shiggy can't lie.
Some say he's allergic to the action of lying, and that if you look at the full moon long enough, he'll speak directly to your mind.
All we know is that he's called the stig, i mean shiggy.

he is trying to tell us he

wow my ps3 fails at posting comments on joystiq

I was trying to say he was telling the world he

lmao

oh the irony

wow my comments keep getting cut weird

He is actually doing a "W" with his right hand and two "i" with his left hand: Wii.

Really.

Three fingers on one hand...two fingers on another....

KID ICARUS: The 5th Prophecy CONFIRMED.

Hehe. Shiggy´s laughing so hard, as he knows you can already pre-order New Super Mario Bros. here http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-buyj-71-z3-49-en-15-%22New+Super+Mario+Bros.+Wii%22-84-j-70-3f8w.html Now I´m off to check my mailbox :D It´s a little OT, sorry ;)

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