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Nintendo bring real-time interactivity to Wii

Nintendo is to bring "an unmatched level of precision" to the Wii's ability to work out where a player's flinging the Wii Remote.

Nintendo Wii Motion Plus

Nintendo's Wii Motion Plus: super-sensitive add-on

Due to be announced later today at the E3 games industry show, the Wii MotionPlus is a small unit that plugs onto the end of the Remote in the same port usually used by the Nunchuk.

The new add-on contains sensors that provide a higher level of motion-sensitivity than those in the Remote, allowing the Nintendo console to detect "every slight movement players make with their wrist or arm".

That data is then fed into the game to allow it to respond to the player "identically in real time... providing a true 1:1 response", Nintendo said.

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@mark

only thing sony can announce that would be miles better than this is that they are going to QA test out their crap hardware before they sell it.

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Sony will announce...

....some decent games for the PS3?

It's due if we're honest cos other than that there really is f**k all decent about the PS3 apart from the fact it can play Blu Ray quite well.

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Sony Will Announce

something great, something miles better than this

nintendo is going to regret their pathetic attempts at capturing this generation and all you xbox cretins are going to cry

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neat, but...

Why didn't they just slap this techno in the controller to begin with?

Are "new" controllers going to have it integrated?

Are they going to replace my wobbly rubber Wiimote jackets with some that are capacious enough to accommodate this new widget?

Enquiring minds, ya-da ya-da.

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