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Lightgun add-on coming to Wii.

Nintendo is adding The Wii Zapper lightgun to its growing range of first party peripherals for its hugely popular games console.

The Wii Zapper lightgun is billed as "the first offspring of the Wii remote and the Nunchuk" and will house both "like a machine gun."

According to our man at the scene, "the front grip has the Wiimote with trigger and the back one has the Nunchuk with analogue. The Wiimote actually lies across the top of the barrel, with a bigger trigger in the front stick that presumably compresses the Wiimote's "B" button." Curious.

The peripheral will be compatible with Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles and Ghost Squad's we will be getting a hands on with the add-on during E3. Medal of Honour will specifically take advantage of the Zapper, we also learned.

The Zapper will be packaged with its own software to show of its abilities, Nintendo confirmed.

The device will be available in standalone form for USD 19.99. Local pricing was not confirmed.

More news to follow.

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the_dudefather #1 5 years ago

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will also feature MAXIMUM PENATRATION
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Razz #2 5 years ago

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TTIUWP
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spongebob #3 5 years ago

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That's cheap and nice. Yay.
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Wayne #4 5 years ago

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Zapper pic: http://ww w.joystiq.com/2007/07/11/ninten...
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Batfink #5 5 years ago

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ugly!
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dredd97 #6 5 years ago

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Jack Thompson's gonna have a stroke when he see's that thing! (and hopefully when he see's the time crisis 4 controller he'd have keeled over and died )
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secombe #7 5 years ago

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Can't wait for this, my Dreamcast gun gets loads of use.
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YourMessageHere #8 5 years ago

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No. Nintendo, you're doing it wrong. The off hand goes in front, gun trigger goes at the back; the only exception to this is when you're lying prone and using a bipod. It's instinctive, ambidextrous and it steadies aim. That thing is a huge mess in ergonomic terms.
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playgen #9 5 years ago

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That Sega game looks like a sequel to Confidential Mission on dreamcast to me, which is all good.
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spongebob #10 5 years ago

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Lightgun games have a special place in my heart. Always loved them.
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peasoup #11 5 years ago

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Pretty sure that Sega game was out in the arcade. Also aren't all of these add ons diluting the Idea of the Wii? I mean by the end of the Wii's life cycle how many attachments are threre gonna be?
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playgen #12 5 years ago

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As long as they keep giving away these add-ons with the games it should be ok, would the games even require this zapper?, doesn't seem to do anything different (no extra buttons or anything), only holding the remote and nunchuck in place.

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DjchunKfunK #13 5 years ago

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The zapper probably gives you a steadier aim. Don't quite know how it is going to work with fps' though.
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FaceOmeter #14 5 years ago

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this is quite a cunning idea as presumably it will also at least half-work on games which haven't been designed with it in mind

$20 does seeeeem cheap but bear in mind it's probably little more than an incredibly ergonomically efficient plastic nunchuk holder... i just hope the devlopers do something classy with it and don't get gimmick fever, which is the danger with nintendo hardware these days
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orakio #15 5 years ago

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looks a bit like the menacer!
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L0cky #16 5 years ago

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'Medal of Honour will specifically take advantage of the Zapper'

This leads me to assume that it's not just a bit of plastic?
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tap #17 5 years ago

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The only problem I have with this is the fact that the wiimote doesn't work like a laser pointer / lightgun.

You'll be pointing at the ceiling or the floor just to aim properly.

I do like it though.
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L0cky #18 5 years ago

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'You'll be pointing at the ceiling or the floor just to aim properly. '

How so? The pointer is IR based oO
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tap #19 5 years ago

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'How so? The pointer is IR based oO'

Well I might have got the wrong end of the stick here but, when I hold the wiimote horizontally and point it directly at the TV screen, the cursor appears a few inches beneath where it 'should' be pointing.

Basically, if I strapped a laser pointer to the wiimote, held it horizontally and pointed it at the TV screen, the cursor would appear several inches below the laser dot.

So, based on the above, pointing the 'gun' directly at the TV screen would result in me shooting several inches below where I intended - I'd need to aim slightly to the ceiling to hit the target.

Am I making any sense here ... ?

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smelly #20 5 years ago

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@tap : BUT it's possible for a game to calibrate where you're pointing exactly

And if the zapper came with said laser pen to calculate exactly where pointing, etc.. i see no reason why it couldnt be exact.
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L0cky #21 5 years ago

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Yeah, sounds like your setup isn't quite right. If I point the Wiimote directly at the sensor bar (which is above the tv) the cursor will go out of range, above the tv.

Though it'd be great if the Wii had TP's calibration as standard.
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Nige #22 5 years ago

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Wii Zapper? Frank's son?
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The_Inquisitor #23 5 years ago

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cool.
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Lovemoose #24 5 years ago

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One wicked cricket?
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