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Nintendo has announced the date and price of its new MotionPlus controller. On June 8th, you’ll be able to get your hot little hands on the wiimote add-on, which clips to the bottom of your existing controller and provides a “dual-axis tuning fork angular rate sensor”, which apparently adds to the motion-sensing goodness by determining angular motion. From what they’re claiming, with MotionPlus, you get true motion-sensing of the sort we’d originally expected from the Wii.<\/p>\n

Nintendo’s initial first-party offering that supports MotionPlus comes out on July 26th, and amongst other things, it includes a swordfighting game. If this turns out to work like myself and so many other people hope, it will open up a floodgate of similar swordfighting games. Personally, I’ve voiced my doubts<\/a> about the viability of such a game, but I’d be happy to be proven wrong. Who doesn’t want to be an Obi-Wan in their own living room? Well, I guess my mom doesn’t… but still!<\/p>\n

While the $250 for a Wii is significantly less expensive than the $300 for a XBox 360 or the $400 for a Playstation 3, when you tack on the extra $40 per controller, $20 per nunchuck, and now the extra $20 per MotionPlus add-on, that’s a potential extra $80 per person. Suddenly, the Wii isn’t so inexpensive.<\/p>\n

Aside from Wii Sports Resort, EA has announced that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis, and EA Sports Active will support the new MotionPlus controller add-on, and there have also been a lot of rumors about Red Steel 2. While the original Red Steel was a bit of a joke when it came to motion-controlled swordplay, this one might actually be somewhat less awful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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