We all know Red Steel 2 is coming and that it will utilize Wii Motion Plus. But the more I think about it, the more assured I am that it will ship with the little white thingy as well. Here's why

Reason 1 -  Games like Shaun White snowboarding or Skate it can use the balance board if you want or you can play with a controller. Games like RRR TV party work with the board. If you don't have a balance board, good luck playing all the balance board games. The question we haven't had answered yet is which kind of game is Red Steel? Will the game have two play modes? One in which sword fighting is handled with the motion plus and a second mode in which sword fighting is completely different to recognize standard Wiimote tech? Seems kind of unlikely since we know how poorly swordfighting was in the original.

If I was Ubisoft, I wouldn't want people to be judging this game on anythign except the best possible play option. At the same time I wouldn't want my game to be dependent on a peripheral people might not have.

Reason 2 - It's Red Steel! Remember the first game prior to release? The anticipation, the promise of the Wii as a hardcore gamers paradise? Red Steel's incredibly strong launch sales was based on the promise that the Wii might truly offer a hardcore experience that the other systems just couldn't compete with. And that games failure to live up to that promise in both motion and IR was a huge letdown to gamers and a warning sign to developers. I consider Red Steel to be one of the Wii's most influential games in directing the system's software library. Well we're at that position again. If Red Steel fixes it's aiming control and has awesome Motion plus sword fighting, we're going to see a lot more dev interest in the system and peripheral. If it fails again... shitty.

Reason 3. - why not? Sports Resort only comes with one, and how much fun is one? Unlike the Balance board, which the Wii only recognizes one, Motion plus will need multiple units even just to enjoy the multiplayer in Sports Resort, so why not have additional software bundles?

It's pretty clear that Nintendo wants a Balance board infront of every TV and a Motion Plus attatched to every Wiimote. And as huge as Sports Resort will be, it doesn't have that power alone. Tiger, Tennis and others will help push interest, but to get people to buy multiple motion plus's and devs to really focus on the peripheral, Nintendo needs to do everything possible to get it out there. It'd be a mutually beneficial deal with Ubi and I can't figure out why it wouldn't happen.

eh? EH?

I don't think it will, I think it will only come with 1st party titles. But I could be wrong.

Doubt it. Only official Nintendo games will carry official Nintendo add-ons.

@ Galaki - Korean and Japanese copies of Umbrella chronicles come with the official Wii Zapper.

I think it's possible. Ubisoft needs to get a lot of support behind RD2, since the First one was avarage, people won't buy the second one unless they know it will be good...

I reckon so, it was a pioneering game for the wii on the release and I think the angle of adding motion plus is that it would hold new credentials as a pioneering game... or perhaps not.

I dunno, I loved the first one, I wear rose tinted glasses

Perhaps.. Depends on Ubisoft.. If they really want to push the game then I don't see why they couldn't come up with a deal with Nintendo. I mean it seemed like they knew about M+ before pretty much every other dev out there going by comments a few months before E3 so they are probably in a good position to do it.

I think it will.

Only if nintendo have alot of them which according to recent reports could be the case

I doubt it, Nintendo hates third party bundles. They want all the cash for themselves.

It would be awesome if it happened though.