Sony barely mentioned pricing with their PlayStation Move motion controller , only noting that the combo pricing with PlayStation Eye and a game will cost less than $100. But by our back-of-the-envelope calculations, the experience is going to be really expensive . More

Do you think non-disclosure agreements apply if you’re one of the guys who built the company you represent? Probably not, as evidenced by Shigeru Miyamoto , who recently took the opportunity — while receiving an award, no less — to blab about forthcoming hardware and games based around the MotionPlus peripheral. There wasn’t much content to his mentions, beyond us now knowing that he’s actively engaged in the design of multiple games outside of the next Zelda iteration, but this is the firmest confirmation yet that the Wii is set for a Wiiplacement . Parsing this with earlier comments from Miyamoto-san would suggest the company will be looking to optimize its present formula (maybe with a touch of HD ?) rather than revolutionize what is already a wildly successful console. Until then, let’s just be happy that one of gaming’s patriarchs is still going strong and dropping crumbs of knowledge for us undeserving earthlings. Nintendo’s Miyamoto casually references new hardware, MotionPlus games originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:37:00 EST.

Hey, kids. We got your attention? Good. Remember those pink and blue Wii controllers that were quietly launched in the Land of the Rising Sun back in October? Yeah, well it seems that both of those gems are coming to the United States, but it’ll be well after Christmas before you can get your hands on either (without a good importer, anyway). Starting on February 14, 2010, the blue and pink Wiimote will be on sale on US soil, and both devices will come bundled with Wii MotionPlus dongles.

Summer may be on its way out, but the Wii Sports Resort kit makes sure the fun never ends. A ping pong paddle, wakeboard and row boat paddle attachment for the Motionplus ?! Sign me up. CTA Digital has just released an 8-in-1 pack for the Wii Sports Resort game for an MSRP of $40. As you can see from the image there is quite an assortment of water and land sports equipment.

The Wii MotionPlus , Nintendo’s hardware patch to make true on the promise of true motion-control gaming, is here. While it’s pretty damn amazing—it truly is 1:1 motion detection—it still isn’t perfect. And part of that is the software. Click for gallery The Hardware : The are two components the the Wii MotionPlus, the hardware attachment itself and the software that supports it. The hardware, which consists of a sensor which detects rotation that hooks into the expansion/Nunchuk port of the Wiimote, allows the setup to feed back exact 3D positional information to the console

For a device that took a solid year to go from ” debuting at E3 ” to ” shipping ,” we’re pretty surprised to see that Nintendo’s Wii MotionPlus held as much steam as it did. With overall video game sales dropping in June for the first time since 2000 (when looking at year-over-year figures, anyway), the Big N still had a few hundred thousand reasons to smile. Aside from the 361,700 Wii consoles and 766,500 DS units that shipped in June, the company also managed to sell 169,000 Wii MotionPlus dongles — and that’s not including the ones that were packaged with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 , of which 272,400 units were sold. The real kicker, however, is that the accessory’s real partner in crime (that’d be Wii Sports Resort ) has yet to be released. It’s good to be king , ain’t it Mario?

At first glance it’s a little difficult to understand the necessity of another motion-sensing add-on. What could possibly be inside this particular block of white plastic that’s not inside those other countless slabs of white plastic that Nintendo has already slathered on the Wii? Sure, we know in theory that the gyroscopes that MotionPlus provides allows the controller to truly orient itself in 3D space, instead of just sensing acceleration in various directions, and breaks some of that reliance on the sensor bar, but do those theoretical advances result in a true leap in gameplay? We tested it out with EA’s new MotionPlus-enabled Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and Grand Slam Tennis — the first such titles on the market while we wait for Nintendo to get its own Wii Sports Resort in order — and we’d say the results are pretty inconclusive so far. Check out our full impressions after the break, along with enthralling videos of both games in action

Just a quick note to our faithful Giz readership: While we usually publish major product reviews in a timely manner, you won’t be seeing a Wii MotionPlus review on our site any time soon. Even though it’s been officially released with Tiger Woods 2010 , the platform is simply too young to fairly adjudicate. Matt Buchanan performed quite a bit of testing at E3 if you’d like to read his impressions . But in reality, it’s just not the time to make any sort of worthwhile verdict on the device because even Nintendo hasn’t shipped their first Wii MotionPlus title yet.

It may not seem quite as impressive now that Microsoft and Sony have shown off their visions of a motion-controlled future , but Nintendo’s Wii MotionPlus is still as good as it gets when it comes to consoles today and, as promised , it’s now finally shipping alongside the latest Tiger Woods game. That may not be exactly what Nintendo had in mind when it first unveiled MotionPlus way back at last year’s E3, but the first-party wares won’t be too far behind, with its own Wii Sports Resort title (and requisite bundle) still on track for a launch late next month. If you’re up for a little golf in the meantime, however, you can pick up the Tiger Woods game bundled with Wii MotionPlus for $59.99, or the standalone game (still playable with the standard Wiimote) for $49.99. Filed under: Gaming EA’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 with Wii MotionPlus now shipping originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:04:00 EST.

E3 was positively epic this year—it’s like we got brand new consoles from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, but with the same boxes we have in our living room right now. Here’s all our coverage in one handy spot: Nintendo : • Nintendo E3 Keynote • Wii Vitality Sensors Turns Wii into Definitive Nursing Home Console • Nintendo Wii MotionPlus Hands On: One Year, Three Games Later • Why the Original Wiimote Didn’t Have MotionPlus • Nintendo: We Could Be Stuck With the Wii for 8 More Years • Power Up Charging Stand Recharges the Wii Punch-Out Board • Mad Catz Wiimote Feels Like the Real Thing for $10 Less • Nyko Zoom Case: ‘Cause You Don’t Care If Your DSi Is Actually Portable • Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata Says He Wouldn’t Use a Mac or iPhone if Apple Was a Competitor • Old Feuds Reunite Between Nintendo and Sega • The Difference Between Sony and Nintendo at E3 • 5 Things That Should’ve Been at E3 But Weren’t Microsoft : • Microsoft E3 Keynote • Testing Project Natal: We Touched the Intangible • Xbox 360 Project Natal Full Body Motion Control One Ups the Wii • Project Natal Won E3, and Maybe the Motion Control Wars • Microsoft: Project Natal Is “The Endgame” • Project Natal on Video • Download Xbox Live Full Retail Games on Demand • Microsoft Says Xbox 360 Is “Less Than Halfway Done • Where Is Xbox Live Anywhere? • Facebook and Twitter on Xbox 360 • Netflix Lets You Add to Queue, Zune Video Marketplace Gets 1080p Instant Streaming • Xbox Live Spillover: New Avatars, Where’s Hulu and Why I Hope You Have Fast Internet • Halo 3 ODST Collector’s Edition Controller Won’t Fit in Convenant Hands • The Xbox Needs Apps • 5 Things That Should’ve Been at E3 But Weren’t Sony : • Sony’s E3 Keynote • PS3 Motion Controller May Be the Best Game Motion Capture Yet • Hands On: Is The PSP Go! Too Small? • Sony to Offer New Digital Copies Of Your Old UMD Games • Everything You Need to Know About the PSP Go! • Sony: Dual Shock Still Defacto, Motion Control Secondary • Sony PlayStation Motion Controller Video: How It Works • The Difference Between Sony and Nintendo at E3 • 5 Things That Should’ve Been at E3 But Weren’t Aaaand that’s it. Hope you liked our coverage of E3 as much as we liked covering it!