my thought is that Nintendo is swimming in that big ass pool of 20 dollar bills.

On the other hand, DLC is game specific (unless you can use Oblivion's horse armor for Fallout 3 somehow), while this mandatory thing at least works for multiple games, and Nintendo of course will not just stop at WSR and Zelda, and third parties will not stop at just Red Steel 2.

Again, it will not be just a single game. That thing will work with further games. Plus in all likelyhood it will come with one bundled (perhaps not all of them in case you already have one), so you won't have to pay as much, and it provides you with one anyway.

Wonderful! So Nintendo is totally happy to leave it to Sony and PS Move! I must dedicate again this song to Sony and Nintendo buddy buddies   

Okay, so Nintendo can't make it mandatory for the sake of the few people that only want it for that one game, even though the entire purpose of using it for that game is to show off how well it can work...

Plus it's about the only major upcoming M game at the moment, but again, there will be more. If they don't please you, it's not Nintendo's fault your tastes run counter to their games.

BTW, I hope you feel the same about Move and Kinect only games. If you do, then okay, but I still say all of them still have a ways to go.

@Kyliedog

You could pick up Red Steel 2 for the same price as RS2 with Mplus at launch. Red Steel 2 is currently £18 with a Mplus included on amazon. Buy it and trade it for Zelda when it releases or take out the Mplus and resell the game. Do you not know anybody who has recently bought a Wii who is bored of Wii Sports Resort?

I like the add-on, and I've played a fair few games with it, but I've always maintained that a pursuit for true 1:1 control by all gaming companies is utterly futile. Player skill prohibits it too much, so we must instead settle for something incredibly close to 1:1 to truly enjoy it. For example, if somebody released a tennis game with true 1:1 control that was exactly like real tennis, how the hell would anyone get any good at it in a short space of time? Tennis takes years to master, I don't want to spend that long trying to get good at a game, as I'd get bored after a week at the most. It'd be the same for many types of games in many types of genres as well, and the market for sequels would disappear instantly (so EA would say goodbye to the money spinning annual updates of their sports franchises). So gaming companies can talk up the pursuit for 'true 1:1' control with their 'my 1:1 control is better than your 1:1 control' nonsense, but the reality of the situation will be something completely different.

Oh, and I picked up Red Steel 2 with the motionplus for £1 less than the standalone game was at the time, but I don't expect little bits of info like that to be registered by those obstreperous and belligerent types...

Support's been awful to be honest.  3rd parties being asleep at the wheel I can understand, that pretty much typifies them this gen, but WTF is up with Nintendo?  We should've had both FlingSmash and Reginliev by now, in all markets.  Why the hell isn't Genius Sonority doing DQ Swords 2?  Where's my 1:1 Project HAMMER NST?

when i first heard of it i thought itd be essential

shockingly i dont have it tho, and havent felt i needed it yet

all i played this year has been sh:sm, monster hunter tri, madworld, nmh2, and cod mwr

and i havent noticed the lack of it.