This is why we have nothing to worry about for 2009

I'll definetely admit this: Third-party games on wii mostly are terrible. Developers are extremely lazy and they just want to make a quick buck by making stupid games such as "Horsez". Just take a look at the games Ubisofts poops out on the wii and you'll see what I mean.

Anyways, with the announcement of WiiMotionPlus (Q1 2009), Nintendo games will certainly have better quality now that motion is easier to recognize, and there are nearly no glitches in movement. Don't believe me? Watch this video of a developer who is demo-ing the peripheral:

http://wii.ign.com/dor/articles/895294/wiimotionplus-and-livemove-2/videos/LiveMove2_demo_video_073008.html

Certain games that will be perfect for this are:

Any baseball game (ex. Pitching, batting, catching)

StarWars game (Lightsabers FTW!)

Sword games (Zelda)

First-Person-Shooters (More responsive turning)

And many more. In addition, developers won't have an excuse for saying, "Oh, well wii simply cannot detect enough motions" or "its just a gimmick". Nope. This is the real deal. EA recently announced over 40 games in development for Nintendo, and I'm sure it has something to do with this quote by EA CEO John Riccitello: http://gonintendo.com/?p=50156

In addition, Miyamoto announced that Super Mario Galaxy 2, Kid Icarus, Zelda, Pikmin 3 and New Super Mario Bros. 2 are in the works.

Even Mini-games titles will be higher-quality. Think about the next WarioWare. Precise motioncontrol AND the possibility of the Balance Board. In addition, one of Nintendo's best-selling series "Mario Party" should have excellent motion controls as well.

Even Ubisoft has decided to jump aboard. They recently announced the sequel to the mediocre game Red Steel will have WiiMotionPlus to solve those glitchy controls that were in the first one

I agree. 3rd party companies have been lazy with their games. 2009 should be good for games because of the motion plus.

I'm not sure with zelda that motion plus would be such a good idea. For Link to get a full powerful swipe, you would have to make a full powerful swipe in your own living-room. I'm not sure I'd be up to playing for long periods of time for that reason (on Zelda game). But that's just my appinion. :P

The other games should be great too! :D

3rd party looks fine. 1st party there is need to be worried about. They haven't announced anything for the first 1/2 so we'll probably rely on 3rd party for the 1st half of the year.

Oh and 1:1 really doesn't seem to be doing much... Just a little extra waggle? How does that make games better?

http://wii.ign.com/dor/articles/895294/wiimotionplus-and-livemove-2/videos/LiveMove2_demo_video_073008.html

Maxned

Seriously, those guys are gods. LiveMove was already awesome, and I wonder how many devs actually used it. But this is just too good, they actually even helped to develop the M+.

1. 3rd party looks fine. 1st party there is need to be worried about. They haven't announced anything for the first 1/2 so we'll probably rely on 3rd party for the 1st half of the year.

2. Oh and 1:1 really doesn't seem to be doing much... Just a little extra waggle? How does that make games better?

Minishdriveby

1. OMG people are actually considering 3rd party games! :o

2. Are you serious? Just watch the LiveMove 2 video.

First-Person-Shooters (More responsive turning)

Maxned

It's actually unrelated to motion tracking. :)

Even Mini-games titles will be higher-quality. Think about the next WarioWare. Precise motioncontrol AND the possibility of the Balance Board. In addition, one of Nintendo's best-selling series "Mario Party" should have excellent motion controls as well.

Maxned

Man, those LiveMove tech demos are already awesome! :lol:

[QUOTE="Minishdriveby"]

1. 3rd party looks fine. 1st party there is need to be worried about. They haven't announced anything for the first 1/2 so we'll probably rely on 3rd party for the 1st half of the year.

2. Oh and 1:1 really doesn't seem to be doing much... Just a little extra waggle? How does that make games better?

Wintry_Flutist

1. OMG people are actually considering 3rd party games! :o

2. Are you serious? Just watch the LiveMove 2 video.

1. I've always considered 3rd party I have quite a few titles in my collection that are 3rd party and I want many more.

2. Yes I am serious.

[QUOTE="Wintry_Flutist"]

[QUOTE="Minishdriveby"]

1. 3rd party looks fine. 1st party there is need to be worried about. They haven't announced anything for the first 1/2 so we'll probably rely on 3rd party for the 1st half of the year.

2. Oh and 1:1 really doesn't seem to be doing much... Just a little extra waggle? How does that make games better?

Minishdriveby

1. OMG people are actually considering 3rd party games! :o

2. Are you serious? Just watch the LiveMove 2 video.

1. I've always considered 3rd party I have quite a few titles in my collection that are 3rd party and I want many more.

2. Yes I am serious.

And you are sure what was done in the sword vs. ragdoll tech demo isn't like light years ahead of, let's say, Red Steel?

[QUOTE="Minishdriveby"][QUOTE="Wintry_Flutist"]

[QUOTE="Minishdriveby"]

1. 3rd party looks fine. 1st party there is need to be worried about. They haven't announced anything for the first 1/2 so we'll probably rely on 3rd party for the 1st half of the year.

2. Oh and 1:1 really doesn't seem to be doing much... Just a little extra waggle? How does that make games better?

Wintry_Flutist

1. OMG people are actually considering 3rd party games! :o

2. Are you serious? Just watch the LiveMove 2 video.

1. I've always considered 3rd party I have quite a few titles in my collection that are 3rd party and I want many more.

2. Yes I am serious.

And you are sure what was done in the sword vs. ragdoll tech demo isn't like liht years ahead of, let's say, Red Steel?

I wouldn't say light years, but it does look better. I'm just saying 1:1 won't reinvent any series. And also it may not even work as good as assumed, I mean in the tech demo it worked fine, e3 when they were showing off with Wii Sports Resort it had a couple of minor glitches, It depends on who's making the game and how well they program the 1:1.

In addition, Miyamoto announced that Super Mario Galaxy 2, Kid Icarus, Zelda, Pikmin 3 and New Super Mario Bros. 2 are in the works.

Maxned

Give Me Proof.....:|

Just because the Wii remote is getting a much needed improvement doesn't mean that the whole year will be better. It will be pretty worthless if there aren't any good games to play. It ships Q1 2009 and I think it's going to take developers a little more than a month or two to crank out the really good games that take advantage of it. Whenever you hear of games being announced that use it is when you can start getting excited.Ospov

Well developers like Ubisoft already have gotten their hands-on with the WiiMotionPlus and are developing RedSteel 2 with it.

[QUOTE="Maxned"] In addition, Miyamoto announced that Super Mario Galaxy 2, Kid Icarus, Zelda, Pikmin 3 and New Super Mario Bros. 2 are in the works.

Spirtsofdragon

Give Me Proof.....:|

Go to wii.ign.com there were about 3 interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto about how he does have many hardcore titles in development. Kid Icarus was confirmed by IGN, and Satoru Iwata confirmed that Mario and Zelda teams are hard at work during the actual press conference (It was during his whole sales pitch, so you had to not be asleep for one moment and listen in :P)

You honestly expect Nintendo to make a Zelda game with full 1:1 motion swordfighting? Haha, really? I never thought anybody could be this naive but Nintendo fans never fail to surprise in that area. When are you gonna realize that Nintendo doesn't give a crap about you guys anymore?

psychojosh

That doesn't make sense at all

If they didin't care about us they wouldn't be making a new Zelda game in the first place.

In addition, Miyamoto announced that Super Mario Galaxy 2, Kid Icarus, Zelda, Pikmin 3 and New Super Mario Bros. 2 are in the works.

Galaxy 2 AND new super mario bros 2?

In addition, one of Nintendo's best-selling series "Mario Party" should have excellent motion controls as well.

that is what I thought about the first but the motion controls were pretty bad most of the time even the Wiimote by itself can do better

Other than that there is potential for 2009

Oh and your sig still cracks me up

that is what I thought about the first but the motion controls were pretty bad most of the time even the Wiimote by itself can do better

starmetroid

Mario Party 8 was probably first intended to be released on GC and got tacked onWiimote support and new minigames.

THANK YOU!

I was seriously thinking of getting rid of my wii. Instead I decided to give Zelda TP a try and am looking forward to another awesome Mario game. I'll still probably get a PS3 in the meantime though