Yes, it is far from perfect and I agree that it is not a great console. I haven't seen one for 99£, but maybe someone would not buy it for 99£ because it would be waste of money for him?

Well, I was deliberately making a broad assumption. I'm just tired, like many people, of all the doom threads, and I'm trying to say the Wii is a good console, despite what you may think from the media. 

I don't think it's too hard to ask for some happiness now and again

Most of the current gyroscope techs, including the piezoelectric one used in WarioWare and the tuning fork one used in WM Plus already existed in 2004, they already competed with each other and they were obviously even smaller and cheaper in 2006, otherwise Ninty wouldn't ever have suggested their use as standard equipment in the first WiiMote trailer gumby_trucker kindly linked. There was obviously the decision to go cheaper and furtherly increase initial HW profit, it cashed in early, but it backfired later.

It's not just any gyroscope. They needed on that could track full movement in a certain way, and those were the kind used on cars, which were not small or affordable at the time. The first commercial releases that were came out around the time of WSR.

And the delay didn't hurt Motion Plus. It was Nintendo making so few games that supported it and therefore showed it off. We got WSR, Fling Smash up until recently. Instead they wanted to show off how awesome they could make cut scenes.

Well considering how little power it has is that really suprising? xD

Why do you assume that's a WM unit when there's actually nothing to support that?

Since the Wiimote shown is a late prototype (square power button, non-trigger B-button, no speaker grille), and that box has a nunchuk cable coming directly out of it, I'd say that it's more likely to be a chunky connector.

@chocolo  ive  been saying it hasnt been ideal forever, for any gamer too just own one gaming platform.  Can anyone think of any console that they could say was a one shop stop for any and all great games of thier time? NES is the only one that comes close and that was decades ago. whats funny to me is you get the the fanpeople who are either tightwads or have a bias for one company and fell like their entitled to everything. IF your in a real money crunch thats understandable

1. Months ago I found some links to manufacturers spec sheets, in 2006 models with the max and minimum angular velocity, minimum rotation detectable and precision needed for motion control already existed. They were obviously not as cheap and small as in 2008, but they already were cheap and small enough to not drag a $250 Wii into loss. (IIRC the model used in WarioWare twisted just fell short of future Ninty needs, but in 2004).

2. About this I partially agree with you: Ninty could have supported it more. But 3rd party support was surely heavily damaged by the vast majority of installed base not having WM Plus feature, this will be changed only if and when Wiis equipped with the feature will exceed those that aren't by a large enough margin. In the meantime, 3rd parties just want to sell SW, pushing HW sales isn't their job, so they'll support WM Plus feature on a small range of titles, if any. Actually they benefit from wider installed base, but they have no interest in tayloring their SW to push speciphic peripherals or features if their SW can sell more if it doesn't depend on them. With their particular needs and due to how marketing works, "a more precise version of WiiMote" doesn't help selling SW as effectively as, for example, Balance Board or Kinect, new peripherals that widened motion control market. Anyhow, WSR did a good, well, I'd say an excellent one to launch WM Plus, but after it 1st party SW to furtherly push its adoption was scarce and sparse. Sony is facing similar issues with PS Move, made worse by it being an even later addition to the base console architecture.

It's more powerful than last-gen and it does more, and i has a better reliabilty than last gen as well. That is a good thing.