Nintendo not apt to add MotionPlus capabilities to older titles

Hey, you know what would be awesome? If you could actually use the MotionPlus dongle you're going to pick up on June 8th. You see, there's a 1.5 month gap between the US release date of the add-on and the first first-party title (Wii Sports Resort) designed to take advantage of it. 'Course, we fully expect a few third-party games (EA's Grand Slam Tennis, for one) to filter out beforehand, but what we were really hoping was for the Big N to provide patches for a few existing titles. Sadly, Mario has chimed in from the Mushroom Kingdom with this: "The Wii MotionPlus accessory is only for games that are designed to make use of its abilities." Translation? You can forget about seeing MotionPlus support added to Mario Kart Wii... or Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal, for that matter.

[Via Joystiq]

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[crunc Posted Apr 16th 2009 9:01AM]

Not adding to older titles is probably true, but the notion that there will be no games for it at release is wrong. One game will already have been released (Sega's Virtua Tennis 2009) and 2 more will be coming out soon after. Obviously you don't buy the MotionPlus add-on if you don't have a game that will use it. Maybe "hardcore" gamers do stupid things like buy something they can't use, but the rest of the gamers are quite a bit smarter.