Sadly, it probably will. Then, a full controller will cost half as much as the system.

The Vitality Sensor is hardly new technology, it measures your pulse, on your finger. This has been done for over 20 years and is hardly groundbreaking.
I'm not saying it won't sell more than Arc and Natal (in fact; I think it will) but to call it innovative or fresh technology is plain wrong, and as a peripheral it is vastly simpler than both Arc and Natal on its own.

The bad news around here is that a Wii-Mote + Nunchuck with Motion Pluss and Vitality Sensor will cost nearly 300$ per controller...

It's funny to me how people forget the bad associations applied to motion controls on the Wii (casualware/fitness games) when talking about the Arc and Natal, and instead now apply them to the new piece of Wii hardware.

There are no confirmed games for any of these new techs yet.

Also @Mummelmann, it is a new technology for games consoles, which is what's relevant here.

How much will Natal cost? Or the Wand? Which, don't you need to buy an eye toy or whatnot for it to work?

How in the world do you end up with $300 per controller? You expect the Vitality Sensor to cost $200?

I doubt the Vitality Sensor itself even counts. I believe it'll replace the nunchuck altogether, you probably won't need more than one.

Lastly, I don't know why people are crying over this. Are Sony / MS' motion solutions so much better, now? Why don't we wait and see the software before passing judgement.

What the hell sort of game needs that set up? You can't even attach a nunchuk and vitality sensor at the same time, and let's not forget that the first two come in the box...

You're not forced to buy all the peripherals Nintendo comes out with. Buy the stuff that the games you want to play utilize. Besides, without said peripherals, those games you happen to be interested in that use them could not exist.

Don't know, don't care since I'm not buying either. But the price of the Wii-mote and Nunchuck here is insane (150$). A Dualshock 3 costs roughly 100$ and a wireless 360 controller roughly 80$ in comparison.

If I were to guess the price of Natal and Arc, I'd say somewhere around the Eyetoy price range, which is/was 100$ here.

Edit;

c0rd; I don't live in the US, I live in Norway and a Wii-mote with a nunchuck costs 900 NOK, Motion Pluss costs 250 NOK and I assume the Vitality Sensor will cost at least 300 NOk and possibly 500 which amounts to 1450-1650 NOK (or 250-280 dollars). And I do not think Sony and MS' solutions are better, in fact; I think they're quite silly. Don't let the PS3 badge under my name confuse you.

Demotruk; playing multiplayer without more controllers is kinda hard so it really doesn't matter that one controller comes in the box. And FYI, I don't care about any of the peripherals for any of the consoles or the games utilizing them. My point is that the controller itself already costs damn much and the peripherals are very steep in price as well. I considered buying a Wii with Mario Kart and three extra controllers right before christmas but the cost of the controllers put me off the idea, I'll wait until they're more affordable, the three controllers cost a lot more than the game and the console itself.

150 Dollar for Wii mote+ Nunchuk ? DS3 100 ? You live somewhere in scandinavia I guess, In central europe its the price cutted in half but in euro. And people in europe get their wages in Euro so it doesnt matter for them if its 80 Dollar because that equals 50 Euro and thats for a European person 50 Dollar.

Edit: Ah I new it north europe. Ok but in Norway you get higher sallaries then in USA if i am correctly informed. So you are able to pay the higher price. Plus the people in Europe USA Japan dont pay as much as people in Australia or Scandinavia.

A Wii mote plus nunchuk is 60 Euro plus this thing I think it would be 90 Euro in USa its dollar and In japan its 9000 Yen. So its ok. 

Some countries pay more. Its always like that.

I agree that getting 4 wii remotes is expensive, though I think the vast majority of people are happy with one or two (I think the average per Wii owner was 2.2 or something), but that has little to do with the vitality sensor. In all likelihood the sensor will come with the major games that utilize it, and it won't add much cost to the price just as Wii Sports Resort was sold at a normal price.

I'm not hyped at all for Natal or Sony's Arc, but if there's something out there which I just cannot tolerate, it's clearly the Vitality Sensor.

Only a matter of time before Nintendo leaves gaming completely and opens up its first health care centre lol.