Nintendo Wii Remote Motionplus: Lightsaber game coming
Filed under: Gaming, Nintendo Wii | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments
For those of you who have been waiting for a lightsaber game, you will be pleased to hear that we could be getting a step closer to it. Nintendo have now announced a new accessory for the Will called Wii Motionplus.
This new attachment which fits on to the bottom of the Wiimote allows for more accurate responses to the motion that the player makes. Nintndo say that this new attachment will do a better job of “reflecting motions in a 3-D space”.
According to Slippery Brick, the Wii Motionplus fits to the bottom of the controller and works in conjunction with the controller’s accelerometer and the Wii sensor bar, Nintendo say that with all three working together, the motion of the players hand and arm are true 1:1 response.
This is the kind of technology that is needed for many first person shooter games, as well as the long awaited lightsaber game that Wii fans are hoping for.
Although the standard Wii Remote does a great job when tracking your hand and arm movements, it can sometimes be a little shaky. The Wii Motionplus add-on improves the precision of those movements, this will be a great help to so many games.
At this moment there are no details on pricing or a release date.
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This could be very cool and I’m glad Ninty aren’t waiting till the next gen to release an upgrade. For those who haven’t played ‘No More Heroes’, the game involves light sabre style gestures, asking you to move the Wiimote in a specific direction. In reality you can move the Wiimote in any direction and the move will still work. It’s still fun and oddly more fun to move in the required direction but it’s all a bit smoke and mirrors. The Wiimote is great but this may help it achieve its promise.
A lightsaber game on the Wii? I’m getting the strangest sense of Deja Vu here… i’m sure when Lucasarts and Nintendo want to make an obscene amount of money they’ll bring out that game. Until then I’ll just wait… it’s what Nintendo fands are good at anyway.