This attachment was cooked and ready at E3 last year, and now it’s conspicuously absent from anything and everything Ninty puts out these days. What’s the deal?
My guess: It’s not the hardware that’s the problem, it’s the software. Dozens of developers and publishers are clamoring to grovel at Nintendo’s feet right now after backing the wrong horse for the past two years, and I imagine a large part of what they’re saying to Nintendo is “let us develop some games for you and this MotionPlus thing.”
Meanwhile, Wii Sports Resort will blow them all away anyway.
Wii MotionPlus delayed
9 March 2009
Wii MotionPlus, Nintendo’s final nail in the coffin for its competitors, may have been delayed.
It worked fine at E3, and several third party developers are pimping its functionality in their upcoming games, so what I think is happening is two-fold.
One, it was delayed,from spring to June. Two, IGN is once again whoring for page views. Success!
First the evil Toys R Us starts a used game program. Then, Best Buy restarts theirs in select markets. Now, eCommerce mega giant Amazon is going that route too with a new mail in service for used games. Golly gee, I hope the developers and publishers can survive this terrible affront to their way of life!
More seriously and with less sarcasm, here’s some free advice: Make games that are worth the ridiculous development budgets your games have today, and then, on top of that, stop charging $60 for schlock.
Meanwhile, Nintendo remains mum on all this because they make games that are supported by appropriate budgets and price tags.
Now Nintendo is just getting plain silly
3 March 2009
David Yarnton, the General Manager of Nintendo UK, brings us back to a simpler time in the 1990s, when Nintendo was an arrogant jackass company, with this quote about holiday shopping and the DSi. He’s right though, ain’t he?
Pay no attention to the DSi behind the curtain
2 March 2009
Says Iwata as he cackles maniacally about the DSi and how it is not competing with cell phones or that iPod thing. Bullpoopy! Nintendo’s unofficial long term goal is world domination, and that includes smashing all portable electronics under its brown Mario Bros jackboots.
Nintendo explodes 2009 release calendar all over internet’s face
26 February 2009
Who gives a hoot about the rest—Punch-Out smacks around the Wii in May.
Nintendo apes PlayStation with ‘Classic Controller Pro’
26 February 2009
And here I thought it was Sony that always ripped off Nintendo! Not so anymore! Perhaps Nintendo is just openly mocking Sony at this point. Who knows.
Hubris much?
25 February 2009
Nintendo has become so big and powerful thanks to the DS and Wii that it thinks taking on entire countries to fight the piracy movement is no big deal. Seriously, there’s a frakkin’ LIST OF NAMES.
Blindness, anyone?
25 February 2009
New Japanese DSi colors lead me to believe Nintendo is secretly in cahoots with Japan’s eye doctors.
Slippery Microsoft exec ‘lauds’ used game market
25 February 2009
Bwah? An video game exec praising the maligned used game market? Hmm. Suspicious. Oh, it’s Microsoft! Something tells me Chris Lewis is bucking the trend because MS, smartly, is looking long term, and sees nothing but death in the future for brick and mortar distribution model. DLC, FTW!
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