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“The long-term plan is difficult to say, but I can tell you that there are no plans to make Wii Sports Resort what is packed in with the Wii purchase. What is in the Wii box will remain the same. Wii Sports Resort will not replace Wii Sports. The intention with Wii Sports was to provide an out of the box experience for consumers and we want new consumers and non-owners to experience that just as everybody else has." - Nintendo of Canada’s Matt Ryan
I am pretty surprised to hear that, but I guess it does make sense. Down the road when there are millions upon millions of MotionPlus units matched up with Wii owners, perhaps the story will change.
On top of that, Mr. Ryan has also said that Nintendo will indeed be supporting the device with quite a hefty barrage of titles.
"...in the future, yes, definitely Nintendo will be putting out a lot more games that use Wii MotionPlus, especially when it’s a game that warrants that type of experience and that type of precision.”
As for the rest of this calendar year, don't expect much first party support for the device...other than Wii Sports Resort.
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Nintendo knows it would satisfy consumers more if they gave them some kind of compilation pack-in or something like that, with M+ too, but they also know they will make far more money by keeping the same on Wii Sports as the pack in and selling Resort separately.
Money over customer satisfaction every time.
I think so too. They are probably testing the waters with MotionPlus yet, specially for the expanded audience.
You mean like Wii Sports, which comes with every Wii console in America?
Why would a customer be "more satisfied" with WSR if they've never tried Wii Sports?
It doesn't make sense to replace Wii Sports with WSR. The point is trying Wii Sports, and then upgrading to a better, deeper experience.
Maybe have both games in a pack in...but to remvoe wii sports wouldn't be cool.
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