All they need is one good commercial to convince the market of what this thing can do. When people see what it's capable of I think then people can make up their own minds about buying it. I personally think the tech has amazing potential if Nintendo pushes it HARD.

Yep. The accelerometer can simulate the function of a gyroscope by detecting the direction of gravity (a constant force of acceleration), but this simulation can't detect lateral rotation and tends to be laggy and inaccurate. The gyroscope detects orientation with far fewer problems, and also helps the accelerometer distinguish between what's gravity, what's rotation, and what's actual motion.

Agreed. And that is a very good example of how Wii Motionplus can be used in a manner outside of gaming.

More like $9.99 - $14.99 for that to buy it separately.  It probably would be a better deal ifyou just bought it with that Wii Sports game.

ppls, are you really seeing this?

What we thought the Wii was already capable of, and has failed to do so far, has driven us to think that many things we once thought possible on the wii is simply not.

Now with this, it can re-affirm our beliefs again. (for those who give a dam that is)

Did you all see, in the part of the clip where he was showing the sworddown, sworddownright, and sworddownleft movements to the receiver app....he has to thrust up before before he actually did the swipe movement, which DID NOT AFFECT THE OUTCOME. These natural human gestures is something that have prevented fluid moves from being executed properly in the past (and currently i suppose).
This, if executed properly by devs, can be a true paradigm shift in gaming. This, I believe is what we were waiting for since November 2006.

Yeah, it's pretty huge that a developer can just buy this middleware and be able to do movement recognition with very little work. This means that the developer doesn't have to learn how to program the WM+, they can just think of creative ways of incorporating it into their games.

I can hit the balls hard!!!

lmao

It's coming with Wii Sports Resort which will do for WM+ that Wii Sports did for the Wii-mote itself.

Nintendo has also stated they eventually want WM+ to be the default option and ship it in the Wii-motes some point in the future.

Those easily confused by the addition of WM+ probably won't be buying much WM+ based software to begin with.

You're welcome.

I remember back when Sony released the first Dual Shock controller.  Anyone remember how many PS games were re-released with Dual Shock support?   A similar situation could happen here or if they fix the storage issue in time we could receive patches to already owned titles to upgrade them to WM+

Part A: No.   It still must be prgrammed in but the tool set makes it very easy to create those new move sets.

Part B: Yes.  Developers can receive a trial kit for free but if they want to use it for a published title, they must purhcase a license for it.

Something I'm curious about.  Wii sports is already the default pack in title.  Will Wii Sports Resort replace it?  If so, that's instant WM+ in every Wii bought at that point and not just buying the seperate WSR game or stand alone packaging.

The combined sales points of all 3 ensure WM+ will be very widespread very quickly.

Very good question!! It does make a lot of sense to do it that way. Not much point in forcing new Wii owners to swallow two versions of Wii Sports at the same time if they want to get the more evolved version of Wii Sports.

If that happens, it's also very likely that new Wii Remotes will contain WM+ out of the box. All of this leaves previous Wii owners to upgrade their controllers. I don't see many people wanting more than two WM+ add-ons, which entails buying Wii Sports:Resort and a standalone WM+, at most (or two standalone WM+). Not so bad!