From website 4Gamer.net comes the news that Nintendo is developing new hardware, and Shigeru Miyamoto is working on a new Wii Motion Plus game. More »
Think of the applications that will most benefit from Nintendo’s Motion Plus for the Wii. Lightsaber fights, that’s one. But golf? You, or at least your dad, will go bananas for it.
High Voltage chief operating officer Eric Nofsinger told MTV Multiplayer that The Conduit, due out March 2009, will support MotionPlus and WiiSpeak, and alludes to an already-planned sequel that will make greater use of those capabilities.
“We’re hooking it [MotionPlus]up,” Nofsinger told Multiplayer. “We want to support it. Probably for this version of the game there’s not going to be a whole ton of really extensive use of the Wii MotionPlus. For the sequel to the game, we definitely do want to incorporate more melee and things like that. We want to support it.”
Earlier this month, reports said High Voltage would push to start work on a sequel once they got a publisher for the first, and that an announcement of the publisher should be coming soon.
The Conduit Already has MotionPlus Support, WiiSpeak Too [MTV Multiplayer via GoNintendo]
At E3, Nintendo announced its first title that would make use of the new precision-enhancing add-ons for the Wii remote — it’s called Wii Sports Resort, and Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway said it was “literally a day at the beach”.
They demonstrated water-skiing and disc dog minigames — that’s Frisbee with a pooch. Dunaway demonstrated that when she rotated her wrist, the movement is mimicked in the game in real-time thanks to the Motion Plus addition. Meanwhile, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime played with the jet ski by “revving” the engine with a turn of his wrist.
They also chopped wood with their hands karate-style, and fought one another.
“It’s kinda cute”, said Fils-Aime.
