Did Nintendo Screw Lucasarts with Wii motion plus?

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greenmedic88 said:
Many developers probably felt left outside the loop at the very least.

Even if the M+ control system was in its preliminary stages of development, a heads up would have been a bit more than just a courtesy call to third parties. 

just stated above that most developers WERE informed just before E3.   Nintendo only inked the licensing rights just a few weeks prior to E3 itself.   You don't go around telling people about a new peripheral that you don't have the rights to yet.

Me said:

I think they kinda did screw LA over - fact is Nintendo needed to give third parties space on the Wii if they want support to gather momentum but they also needed system sellers for this holiday.


If I were Nintendo I woul have been releasing the Wii Motion plus this year and offered LA a chance to have it bundled with Clone Wars for the holidays then release Wii Sports Resort next year with it bundled again to make sure you're attacking 2 demographs with this new hardware.

This is why I would also bundle the Balance Board in with Shaun Whytes Snowboarding as well if it were down to me though.

Read above.

Also, Nintendo can't release the peripheral this year because manufacturing, distribution, retail, software, etc...won't be ready for it.  

Kyros said:
LOL If I were Lucasarts I would kill them. They make one of the biggest third-party games for the Wii which bases its Wii appeal on realistic lightsaber fights and Nintendo doesn't tell them about WiiMotion? Between Wii Music and this I think Nintendo is loosing its grip on reality a bit. At the moment they crush everything but if they get their heads in the clouds too much the fight might get interesting again.

Can you can your hate for 5 minutes?   It wouldn't matter if Nintendo told LA or not because by the time the SDK is finalized and shipped to them their game will have gone into Q&A making it far too late to implement.   Not to forget the game is already on a devepment schedule making delays costly and the peripheral won't even be out for several months past the games launch.

Gamerace said:
On one hand I'm totally pissed at how Nintendo kept WiiMotionPlus all to themselves and then just surprised 3rd parties with the announcement at E3.

Read my posts above.  All the developers with games in the pipeline on the same or later timeline as the release of WM+ were informed.   Developers who would not have time to implement the peripheral found out at E3.

chasmatic12 said:
Didn't Ubi know about it?

Yes, they did.  As did EA, Activision, THQ, Sega, SE, Capcom, Konami, Namco and many others.