Tiger Woods and Grand Slam Tennis Get EU MotionPlus Bundles

Yuss. Go Europe.

Don't we still get Motion-Plus with Resort?

@Supermarioman
Yes we do.

I'm really looking forward to some Tiger Woods 10 with Motionplus! I rented 09 last year and I thought it was hard to hit shorter shots.

Nice! If only this package was for Virtua Tennis 09, which sounds way better IMO.

That's great that they're bundling motion plus with more games. Hopefully more gamers will get it, so more games will use it! I wouldnt have expected Nintendo to actually put the necessary support behind it. Too bad I don't care about golf. Would prefer tennis.

Does anyone know of an explanation of how the wii motion plus technology works? How and why it's better than the current wiimote?

@i8cookie

"The device incorporates a dual-axis[80] "tuning fork" angular rate sensor,[81] which can determine rotational motion. The information captured by the angular rate sensor can then be used to distinguish true linear motion from the accelerometer readings.[82] This allows for the capture of more complex movements than possible with the Wii Remote alone.[83]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Motion_Plus#Wii_MotionPlus

Lame, US better get a bundle for GST - wouldn't make sense not too.

Does anyone know if Nintendo are going to lauch a wiimote with this thing built in, my suspicion is that they will wait untill everyone has bought the add-on then release the built in version so people end up buying it again.

IGN says both GST and TW will bundle MP, for only $10 more than the original price ($50).

europe are getting better deal if i lived in US id want tennis rather thang golf

@Stevie
I bet they do that. I would probably just keep the old ones and the attachment though.

Will we need to remove the attachment to play non motion plus games or can we just keep it attached all the time? That would be a pain if we had to take it on and off all the time. Though I guess I'll have to for VC NES games and for the mario kart wheel.

You'll probably have to remove the attachment for other games. The reason for this would be that most games that use only the Wii remote perform a check to see if you've got something plugged into that port, and then tell you to remove it. Since these older games were not aware of the M+, they won't know to ignore it.

Having read a fair amount from homebrew hackers about how the Wii's firmware works, it seems even less likely that any update could solve this problem for past games, but who knows.

The Motion Plus probably consumes more Wiimote battery faster so the player wil likely want to remove it when playing games that don't utilize it.

I can see golf being the only one in NA. It's more popular than Tennis generally. Not many Americans watch Tennis, okay maybe not Golf too... anyway...

If tennis allows for top spin and slice with motion controls, i would buy that in a heartbeat.

I will buy the golf game only if it has 5-10 complete courses.

@slambert: I read recently that it wasn't, and it was being sold alone, I think IGN reported it. But they've been far wrong in the past too.

@Stevie: Miyamoto has stated that in the future they're planning to package all Wii's with remotes that have M+ built in. I would imagine there'd be a button to switch it off perhaps for older games.