Motion Plus was too expensive at first

[LordTheNightKnight]

famousringo said:

twesterm said:
Didn't they talk about this when they first announced the Wii Motion Plus or is 1up really just that slow?

 

Yeah, and also yeah.

The problem wasn't simply that the Wii would be more expensive. Every single wiimote would also be more expensive, which gets to be pretty prohibitive when you're trying to push local multiplayer as a core value. Just imagine if every wiimote cost $100. No way would I have a full fleet of wiimotes and nunchucks at that price, and that puts a limit on how much fun I can have with my Wii, just like the lack of true 1:1 has.

 

That pretty much sums it up.

As for the lack of 1:1, the control would still have problems as developers had to learn to implement it.