14 DAY TRIAL // Ever since its release, the Nintendo Wii has fascinated a lot of gamers with its motion-sensitive controls. The fact that if you just moved your hand the character on the screen would also move was very interesting and a lot of fun while playing titles such as Wii Sports or Wii Play.
But slowly, a lot of people started to complain about the fact that the controls were not sensitive enough and that the characters in various games wouldn't move as they wanted them to. Things will change though, at least according to Nintendo, which will introduce the Wii MotionPlus peripheral, an add-on to the normal Wii Remote that will generate a 1:1 feedback to the console.
The Japanese company hopes that it will provide users with an accurate controller for their needs, but, according to the producer of Electronic Arts' upcoming Grand Slam Tennis title, it will be a bit too accurate sometimes. The game, which will be one of the first to support Wii MotionPlus, needed to have the sensitivity toned down in order for it to be fully playable, says Thomas Singleton.
“It truly is giving you that one-to-one control movement of your arm motion and then mapping it directly to that one-to-one movement of your character on screen. At times it's overly responsive. It had so much fidelity that at times we have limited that fidelity to make it a compelling experience and giving you full total control. Playing a tennis game with Wii MotionPlus after playing the same game without the new, improved controller is the equivalent of taking the stabilisers off of your first bike.”
Hopefully this will make a lot of people who complained about the Wii Remote look forward to MotionPlus. Sadly, the peripheral still doesn't have a concrete release date, with Wii gamers around the world eagerly anticipating it around summer.