I saw no mention of motion control, he's talking about the gameplay. Either way i'd rather push buttons for hours and hours than waggle for hours and hours.

I don't see that at all. My problem with most brawlers, is that while they continually add variety and flash, the underlying gameplay isn't much fun in the first place. The underlying mechanics of Red Steel 2 are fun in themselves, and there's no reason why it should hold the game back from having variety at the same time. And if you look through the videos we've seen so far, we've seen plenty of different kinds of enemies. Various different early goons with different weapons and styles, then there are ninjas which once again vary, and there are bosses, and that's just the limited stuff we've seen so far. There's no reason to think this is going to end up like No More Heroes where you just trudge through the same goons over and over, though even if it somehow did the underlying gameplay would still make it more fun.

Except that Wii Motion Plus means no waggling...