There's been a lot of speculation among game journalists as to why Nintendo's much-hyped new license to print money, Wii Sports Resort, was missing from the Q2 release schedule for Wii and DS titles that Nintendo released just a few weeks ago. The guys at the IGN Voice Chat podcast usually have the inside scoop when it comes to what Nintendo is doing (correctly predicting the Nintendo DSi release date among other things) and the latest episode has some really interesting dirt regarding the Wii Sports Resort delay.

At the 37-minute mark in episode 39 of the podcast, somebody who I believe is IGN's Matt Cassamassina claims that the same source that passed him the DSi leak has stated that Nintendo is struggling to work out some development problems with the MotionPlus peripheral. He goes on to claim that Wii Sports Resort's promised ten games may be trimmed down to eight when the product finally ships, due to the issues. Cassamassina's theory is that the problem may be calibration-- apparently you need to recalibrate a Wii MotionPlus controller every time you swap games with it, by tilting the Remote downwards.

If true, then Nintendo's problem is pretty serious-- the audience for Wii Sports is primarily interested in simplicity and would seem prone to forgetting to recalibrate between rounds of different games. The question is -- if this rumor is true -- whether Nintendo will work on making recalibration simpler, or trying to eliminate the need for it entirely.

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KouAidou

I don't think the recalibration would be a problem for casual players. Just make sure you have a big colorful illustration saying "Tilt remote downward!" as your loadscreen between games. Problem solved.

Not so solved if it's going to screw with third-party developers' ability to use the control, though. This is troubling.

welshmantom

I have purchased a wii resport game and attachment and used these for a few days only. Although the concept of Motion Plus is great the constant recalibration during games is annoying even in the simple games such as the aeroplane flight game. I emailed nintendo to ask if this is normal their response is that they want me to send them the wii console,remotes and new games ,which will cost me a lot of money to do, so they can chesk for faults. Prior to my adding the new attachment I have had no problems whatsoever with either the wii console or the wii fitness board and everything seems perfectly fine when attachment is removed. Very Serious refinement is needed with this game and perhaps the alleged delayed release should have been delayed a bit longer to resolve this issue. They have had the same problem at the store which I purchased the wii game and motion plus. Be warned although when the game works it is good fun the very constant and very frequent recalibration is both very annoying and very frustrating. Might pay to wait and see if this is a major problem as if it is Nintendo will have to do something about it.

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