flagship said:
Games that requires Motion Plus will fail from lack of userbase and games that don't require it won't produce much of an added effect through its use. Wake up it's going to be a niche product just like every other add-on accesory, Nintendo, Sony, Sega, MS etc. have made for well over the past 2 decades. Remember the Nintendo Power Glove? Seda CD? Zapper Guns? Joysticks?History does not bode well for this product.
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History not boding well is one thing--dismissing it out of hand because of that history is naive, foolish and dumb, especially based on recent sales of the Wii Balance Board which, in sufficient time, might very well out-sell a number of historically succesful game platforms. I'd also submit you may be drawing the wrong conclusions from a faulty reading of that history.
For example(s), unless you are privvy to Nintendo's marketing plans for Motion Plus (insofar as what other games they might bundle with it) you are making a great many assumptions about the viability of a ~$20 peripheral in 2009 versus that of things like the Power Glove ($100 in 1989) Sega CD ($300 in 1992 and still managed to collect a fair few number of exclusive titles) and, say, the PC Engine CD-ROM which went on to be *more* popular than the cartridge format that spawned it (go ahead: make the argument that it was in Japan and, therefore, doesn't count but it certainly undermines your argument from history). Oh, and what about the Dual Shock controller? Does that count as a peripheral that would never be supported? I could go on, but would you want me to?
Finally, there is absolutey the possibility that Nintendo will build in the funtionality into Wii Remotes going forward, thus guaranteeing that, ultimately, the vast majority of Wii owners will have it whether they knowingly buy it or not.
