Wii Motion Plus, 1 year later

[ChichiriMuyo]

LordTheNightKnight said:

ChichiriMuyo said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

ChichiriMuyo said:

mortono said:

ChichiriMuyo said:

I think Nintendo sorta blew it.  Athough Pachter was always wrong, he should have been right baout the WiiHD launching in '09 and it should have had M standard, with WSR as an upgrade for people who don't care about output resolution.  With a move like that their sales wouldn't have dipped and they'd have ample support for a product that genuinely improves the experience.  We'll see after the new Zelda, I guess, since that's really going to prove whther or not its going to get support at all.

No I'm glad Pachter was wrong. Wii HD would basically be the PSP Go of console releases.

They just need more motion plus games, not high-definition graphics.

Hah.  More like the Gameboy Color - an adequate way of extending the system's life while adding enough to spur on more development.  Basically, it'd have increased the lifespan of the system so that Nintendo has the time to develop a proper successor, which may be further out than most think.

Do your research. The GBC came out in 1999, ten years after the original GB. The Wii hasn't even been out half that long, and is selling even faster than the GB, with more hits and killer apps. Claiming it needs a life extention shows you either don't know the facts or are deliberately ignoring them.

You're right.  My bad.  How about DSLite?  Maybe GBASP.  Maybe one of the many other pieces of slightly updated hardware Nintendo is so fond of in the handheld market that all helped to extend their lives and create new peak sales rates.

The Motion Plus is for that purpose. So they need to step up with the software more than just change the system when it actually works.

The Lite and SP were to address tech issues with the systems themselves (bulk including no longer being top heavy for the Light, and rechargeable battery to make a decent light system for the SP), and they were released in the early parts of the cycles, so they didn't really extend the system lives.

So the Wii wouldn't be getting a spech upgrade, but simply a design change, and only if Nintendo feels there is a tech that needs fixing by way of a design change.

And here's what you clearly don't understand - WM has failed to pick up steam because it was merely an add-on.  Had there been a relaunch of the system featuring WM plus other bells and whistles to spur resales, they'd have been earing $250 on the first WM sold to most people instead of $50 (WSR).  Also, it would have been much more encouraging for developers, who also picked up on added advantages of the CGB and DSi, neither of which has ever been counted as sepperate generations by any credible source.

And you're arguing that unnecessary jaggies, which could be fixed with a built-in upscaler, aren't equally tech issues?  I've known people that have said both the original GBA and the original DS were both completely unplayable due to poor lighting.  I can't imagine hearing stronger words about the dreded effects of jaggies. And if you don't think those upgrades extended the lives or their respected systems (minus GBA, which was pushed out a bit early because of the ill-timed PSP launch) you're nuts.

 

And that's why I'm saying Nintendo dropped the ball.  They didn't feel the need, and now the tech of the WM has gone mostly to waste.  Very few games are made to take advantage of it because it's not a standard feature.  They could have made a lot more money, especially off of the WM concept, with a relaunch of the hardware.