Miyamoto: Wii MotionPlus technology only possible now

Wii's processor is built on a one hundred and "some odd number" nm process. The GPU is 90 nm. Intel has 32 nm processes. So yes, some "magical technological hurdle" has been passed since then, its called smaller mfg process. It shrinks the physical size of the chips as well as reduces the overall power consumed. Remember that the WM+ piggybacks on the normal wiimote batteries. It wouldn't surprise me if power consumption was one of their bigger issues, as opposed to just physical dimensions.

By January of 2005 Farrokh Ayazi and Mohammad Faisal Zaman both of Atlanta, GA, had fabricated a working model of a more precise and complex tuning fork gyroscope than the one used in the motion plus, one that uses a "single-plane" model (resistant to shocks and misalignment.)

It came in at a hefty 400 × 400 × 40 μm (micrometers!) and uses less juice than resident static electricity can provide. The processor needed to interpret the data and send it back to a main process for use in more complicated math needn't be much more sophisticated than ones used by solar powered scientific calculators.

Again.. this wasn't a limitation of technology but rather a business decision... as such, Miyamoto's comments are false and misleading. In other words.. bullshit!

And the price of that prototype was....
Seriously, take a step back to look at how much technology evolves. At that time, the OLPC looked like an interesting idea. Today, cheap notebooks are much more powerful. It's really really amazing the speed at which tech gets better.

Manufacturing costs decline with mass production. The point is this.. in a sense he's right.. in a lazy sense. They hired a 3rd party who only used technology they held patents and licenses for.. who only had certain resources available to them.. They also did most of the R&D and actual work for Nintendo and obvious made a tidy sum of profit. So yeah.. maybe the route Nintendo chose was only became cost effective more recently. That was a business decision.
However Miyamoto is trying to subdue criticism that such technology should have been implemented from the start by claiming that it simply wasn't possible.
It was possible.. and if they had pursued the technology from the start it would have also been cost effective by production.
Its been well stated that Nintendo didn't even look into more accurate motion sensing until after receiving criticisms from developers after playing with the early dev kits.
Spin it any way you want.. make excuses till the cows come home...
The fact remains this.. it WAS possible and it was Nintendo's lack of foresight that caused this delay.

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You get one for being cheeky.

He's representing the far east side, I hear they're pretty hardcore.

Where's tmac anyway? Is this not negative enough for him or has he finally taken our advice and went away forever?