The only hard source on this is a tiny paragraph in this month's new Game Informer, so take it with a grain of salt. It's long been established that Nintendo didn't bother to tell any third parties about the Wii MotionPlus peripheral until their E3 press conference this year, which means that basically nothing hitting in Q4 this year or even early 2009 is likely to support it.

The word is that LucasArts is hopping mad with Nintendo about this, since one of their Q4 titles for this year - Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels - is the sort of title that would benefit tremendously from 1:1 motion input. Instead, the "ultimate lightsaber combat game" is very likely to ship with swordfighting controls inferior to those found in Wii Sports Resort (on top of being beaten to lightsaber combat by No More Heroes).

If Nintendo had shared the tech with them earlier in the development process, then Lightsaber Duels could've shipped as one of the first titles with full Wii MotionPlus support. Instead, it's looking more likely that LucasArts and possibly other third-party publishers are simply not going to support the peripheral at all.

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TribeMindMD

It's more a matter of Nintendo being overly protective than anything else... and unfortunate timing for LucasArts.

Xander_RKos

I'm glad the author said to take this "with a grain of salt" because the article is wrong. If anyone read the article, it lacks interviews or quotes or any kind of evidence that Lucasarts is in fact, angry. Even the Lucasarts website says nothing about it.

Also, look at Lightsaber duels, see the guy with four lightsabers? How are you going to manage that with 1:1 ratio sword fighting. Now look at the sword fighting in Wii Sports Resort, see how it's more realistic swordplay than Lightsaber duels? Trust me, if Lucasarts is smart, 1:1 ratio motion capturing for a Star Wars game would be about as epic as Darth Vader vs. Old Ben Kenobi (you know, the one from Episode IV)

I'm pretty sure this article was produced to simply put down Nintendo. Game Informer already has a history of not liking Nintendo...

Dope

Xander,
Great breakdown. However, you destroyed your well thought out and researched argument by disrespecting the epic-ness that was Vader vs. Old Ben.

JPThunder01

It's not like the Star Wars games aren't going to sell.. even if the controls aren't 1:1, if they are still implemented well the game will be a success and Lucasarts can then focus on making a true 1:1 lightsaber game if they want.

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