Nintendo may have announced a new enhancement to the Wii controller, but don't expect many titles to take advantage of the new accuracy.
Many in the development community only found out about the Wii MotionPlus yesterday - the same time as the rest of us.
Developers normally expect to get early access to peripherals, so they can quickly create new games to take advantage of the new hardware, but this time Nintendo seems to have kept the details to themselves, leaving at least some games developers wondering if success may be leading to a little arrogance from the Japanese giant.
The Wii MotionPlus improves the accuracy of location tracking in the Wii controller which, while revolutionary, has long been a source of annoyance to developers who quickly discovered the restrictions they would be required to work around.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.
This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆
But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.
Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.
Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.
As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .
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The games can't use Wii moyion plus until it's released in 2009!
Exclude business partners and leave them out of the loop. I wonder why third parties always implement key first party "innovations" 6 months later than Nintendo. Greed is the bane of human existence. Thanks for showing me a little Big N. Oh, and keep Reggie on a leash...with a muzzle, shock collar, and microchip ID.
on MS and Sony both rumored to have motion controllers in development. Nintendo not worry my #%$. They know their success in built on the controller and the price. once MS and Sony get Motion controllers where does that leave the wii. Price can always be cut but value cannot be added to the wii without those wacky peripherals
It's quite obvious it would be like that imo . Just look at the clone wars lightsaber game , waving precisely lightsabers is something people screamed for from the very beginning of the Wii . Star wars finally arrives , but it's one more action game without accurate sword moves reproduction .
Its Nintendo. They don't give a crud about 3rd parties. Why do you think everyone was so happy to jump ship to the Playstation back in 1995.