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• Wii MotionPlus a Surprise to Dev's

  Game Informer reports that the new Wii MotionPlus add-on, to be bundled with Wii Sports Resort, is largely news to the third party development community: We asked several third-party Wii developers about the Wii MotionPlus, and the general feeling was one of annoyance and betrayal. None of them said they had any advance notice about the peripheral, and we were told that they were as surprised as everyone else when Nintendo revealed its existence on stage. That lack of prior notice means that, aside from Nintendo’s own roster of games, users won’t likely see any support for the device for at least six to nine months. The developers we spoke to said they hadn’t received any information from Nintendo about how to implement Wii MotionPlus into their upcoming projects, and they also expressed doubt that they would be able to incorporate it into games that are currently deep in development. What gives, Nintendo? Before this announcement, I felt torn between excitement about the possibilities of the new peripheral and annoyance that this wasn't built into the original Wii Remote.  But now I'm going to have to wait six to nine months to experience the new technology outside another Wii Sports title in which I'm not interested? I don't understand the logic behind keeping this one a secret. The reception among the press has been "lol awesome, lightsabers ftw" across the board, but this move isn't going to win Nintendo any friends. Also, if I wanted to upgrade my console hardware every few months, I'd buy an Xbox. Related Links: Wii MotionPlus - Say what, Nintendo? Toys are "Better than Video Games"? Posted Jul 23 2008, 12:00 AM by Cole Stryker with | with no comments Filed under: nintendo, xbox 360, cole stryker, wii motionplus, wii sports resort

• E3 Day Two: Spin, Malaise, Sony’s New Clothes, and Nintendo’s True Disruption

  Despite their show-ending bombshell announcement, Microsoft’s E3 press conference was something of a non-event. The house of X showed off titles that had already been seen or leaked, announced a handful of downloadable titles that weren’t exactly setting folks’ brains on fire, and revealed an embarrassing attempt to cash-in on the Mii phenomenon with Xbox Live Avatars. It’s embarrassing enough that the Avatars look so similar to Nintendo’s Miis, but it’s even worse that they were designed by Rare, the less-than-profitable appendage Microsoft cut away from Nintendo in the first place. It wouldn’t have been difficult for Sony and Nintendo to one-up Microsoft’s event, but neither of the console makers did, both of them focusing more on sales data and business strategies than on software. Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 02:00 PM by John Constantine with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: john constantine, playstation 3, nintendo, nintendo ds, microsoft, rare, xbox 360, wii, sony, animal crossing, e3, mii, avatars, satoru iwata, wii music, wii sports, wii motionplus