Wii successor needs to be appraised; Wii MotionPlus will be cheap

Nintendo Wii video game news - Image 1So we all know that Wii 2 is already in the works, and we asked before if it could ever live up to the standards set by the Wii console we already know and love. Nintendo prez Satoru Iwata, at least, is making sure that it’s up to par. That and more in the full article.

Nintendo Wii video game news - Image 1A few days ago, Nintendo prez Satoru Iwata revealed that the Wii’s successor is already in the works. Just recently too, he admitted to the Wall Street Journal that work started on Wii 2 ever since the dev team was done with the first one.

With that in mind, we go back to the question we asked earlier: can it live up to the expectations set by the first-generation Wii? Iwata, at least, is making sure it’s up to par. Speaking to the WSJ:

The hardware team started work on the next thing as soon as they were done with their previous project, but what they think up doesn’t necessarily become a product. We only turn something into a product after it’s been thoroughly vetted inside the company. We’re not at a point where we can give specifics, but of course we’re working on it.

So we can at least be sure that it’s not just “a kind of box that consumers reluctantly but in order to play our games,” which is how he described it earlier.

In the same interview, Iwata also reveals that the Wii MotionPlus will be sold for cheap, and that games that will be utilizing the accessory will be coming. We already know one of them at least: Wii Sports Resort.

We’re going to try to offer it for as little as possible. We haven’t announced the price yet, but the cost of making the Wii MotionPlus is not that much, so I think we can make it very affordable.


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Via Wall Street Journal

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