The only people complaining about the $80 controller are the core gamers who have allready probably bought an extra remote and nunchuck or two over the course of the last three years. And most people have friends who either have Wiis, amd/or bought their own controllers.

I agree with the whiners - this is technology that should’ve been in the Wii to begin with. Regardless, I’m looking forward to Virtua Tennis.

$80 for a fucking controller is ridiculous. Especially if you have multiple. I’ve got two Wiimotes with nunchucks, with the first coming with Wii itself.

But still, for a second controller (And giving the first full functionality,) that’s $40 to give both Wiimotes MotionPlus, $40 for a second controller, and $20 for the Nunchuck. Who wants to shell out this much? Bah.

I fully expect nintendo to start building wii remotes with motion plus built in, if they don’t I’ll be disgusted quite frankly.
I’d rather wait for remotes with it built in than have to unplug it every time I want to use a peripheral.

I think I’ll buy the wiisports resort package, and then wait for the built in remotes.

To me, this is huge mistake not unlike the 32X, Sega CD, 64DD, and e-Reader.

This is not going to be like Wii Play because the game was basically $10 on top of the price of a Wiimote, making it a no-brainer instant impulse purchase for anyone in the market of buying a second Wiimote. Wii Sports and Wii Play has instantly understandable games like Bowling, Boxing, and Clay Shooting. Wii Sports Resort is a $30 premium, with games like Frisbee and Kendo?

Honestly I think in order for Wii Motion plus to sell as well as possible they need the Wii Sports Resort bundle. It’s actually worth the deal at least considering you at least get a game that works with it that is generally enjoyable for the whole family.

The honest truth though is that even if you consider the Wii Mote and Motion Plus as a complete controller (for example not every single Wii game even now requires a nunchuck to play) it still costs a whopping $60 dollars for a fully functional controller.

I think the real concern here is that you can bet Nintendo will be making use of the motion pluses abilities in it’s future games (primarly the reason I bet we haven’t seen the next Mario title and Zelda title… they probably hope to put the new functions to good use) which will eventually force any gamers who are reluctant to go out and buy it as well.

It’s good business for them, and I bet people will go for it, but I think it will alienate some of their users who are already irritated by the amount of peripherals to buy for the Wii.

Nintendo knows people are still gonna buy it, so they never drop the price on anything. Once Wii sports 2 is out, people are gonna want 2 or more wm+ add ons to play with friends or family.
All well, at lest wm+ could be useful to some core games, unlike some of the other add ons for wii.

I was hoping for $10 and fearing it would be $30, so $20 sounds about right.

If I could play devil’s advocate for a moment, let’s say Nintendo could have added this to the Wiimote at launch, it probably would have made individual Wiimotes $60 each, and people were already complaining about the $40 price point.

It’s also possible that in 2005 (when they were probably finalizing the controller), the WM+ technology was both too early and too expensive to include in the standard Wiimote (we all know how Nintendo likes to keep things functional AND profitable).

And look at it this way, Nintendo could have just created new Wiimotes with the WM+ build in and forced us to buy new controllers with a new technology at a $60 price point (*coughsixaxiscough*). At least with the dongle it’s a cheaper upgrade than a brand new controller.

Anyway, with that said, nothing that features WM+ really interests me at this point, so I’ll probably hold off on getting it myself until the next Mario/Zelda game.

Look, just stop bitching about it. Get Wii Sports Resort and that’s one Wii Motion+. Either buy Grand Slam Tennis which is sure to be bundled for $60 or buy an extra one.

RIGHT NOW you don’t need 4 Wii Motion Plus. You’ll do fine with 2. Plus, YOU’VE ALREADY BOUGHT AN EXTRA WIIMOTE+NUNCHUCK SO YOU’RE ONLY SPENDING AND EXTRA $20 AND $50 FOR THE BUNDLE! No, you’re not spending $80 to get a “complete controller”. You’re spending $20 and, like me, you’ve spent $60 for an extra Wiimote+Nunchuck since launch over 2 years ago…

Eh, this doesnt bother me as much as it would have a year ago.

Personally I’ll not be getting a motionplus until well after they’re available preowned, and even then that depends on wether any motionplus games come out that justify the perephrial. Methinks most third party games will have a non motionplus option anyways, on the offchance that johnny and jane casual dont have the peripheral,and dont understand why they need it.

Its pretty easy to see it staying a ‘gimmick’ until they start to bundle it with the console/new remotes. Thats not to say no awesome games will be made utilising it of course, but every new game suddenly being uplayable if you dont have it?…highly unlikely.

it’s not like any of us are starting from scratch. we all have remotes. I’m excited for it. Can’t wait for TigerWoods i hear that game is gonna be wicked.

Nintendo loves your money.

Well comparatively, in Australia the PS3 controller IS $100, but if you count all the required add ons for the Wiimote, it’ll end up being about $130.

I’m looking forward to it, I just wish Wii Sports Resort was coming out at the same time as the accessory. I want the golf and tennis games and will want to play two-player tennis, but if I get two MotionPlus addons the one that comes with WSR will be redundant since I only have two Wiimotes.

I’ll just have to stick with single-player tennis for a few weeks…

I’m not really sure how someone buying a controller 2 years ago means the complete version of the controller isn’t “$80″.

Regardless, I just got a Wii a week ago. I bought a second remote and nunchuck. I, like many people, am very likely to get enough for four players because, frankly, I don’t have a ton of friends who bring remotes with them everywhere. If I wanted to use this, would I need 4 of them? Not right away, but maybe eventually.

It is a lot of money and it adds up quickly.

Now don’t get me wrong I’ve got nothing against Nintendo; Nintendo consoles and games are an integral part of gaming history, the problem I have with the Wii is that it’s so cute and gimmicky that it will never be used for more “serious” gaming, it’s a great console if you’re six or sixty

I think this device will be either a huge success, or a serious wake-up call to Nintendo that the casual market is not sustainable.

I’m betting on the latter.

I think this is some great technology that could see alot of use for increasing the feeling of interactivity in games. Unfortunately, I also think that Wii Motion Plus will be relegated to a minority of games, the way the Nunchuck is now. I’m in possession of 4 Remotes, but only 2 Nunchuks, and I haven’t run across anything that I’ve needed more than that to play.

I just hope we won’t be required to unplug the Wii Motion Plus when we play games that don’t use it the way we have to do Nunchucks.

Thanks for the mention about my comment in #4cr, I’ve been loving the IRC channel so far. More people should check it out, it’s been a really good place to have intelligent conversation since I started idling there, a real rarity on IRC.

As if any game worth playing will utilize the Motionplus!

I’m just waiting for the HD plus add on.

how much do you pay for a ps3/60 game?? 60$ so don’t complain and pay 20

All I know is that I’ll definitely be purchasing Wii Sports Resort. And hey, if Tiger is really good, then maybe I’ll get it, to get a second Wii Motion Plus (that way), instead of buying one on the side.

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