Tiger, Tennis to use Wii MotionPlus

By Oli Welsh Published 27 February, 2009

Could US June date suggest add-on's release?

Electronic Arts has announced that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis will be its first games to utilise Wii MotionPlus, and they'll be out in the US on 18th June this year.

Nintendo has yet to put a release date on the add-on that increases the sensitivity of the Wii remote - or on its own flagship MotionPlus title, Wii Sports Resort. This is the clearest indication yet that we'll see MotionPlus in the first half of the year.

"On the Wii, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis (previously known simply as EA Sports Tennis) bring the authentic motion and excitement of championship golf and tennis to life for fans of all ages and skill levels," said EA Sports president Peter Moore.

"With the new Wii MotionPlus, slicing a winner on Centre Court at Wimbledon or dropping an 8 iron pin high on No. 17 at TPC Sawgrass have never felt better. We couldn't be more excited about the dynamic new EA Sports experiences coming this year to the Wii."

Moore's all about the Wii. EA Sports has "at least" five games designed specifically for Nintendo's machine that are due out this year, including May's fitness title, EA Sports Active.

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Comments (7) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Santino #1 3 years ago

    that style looks pretty cool actually, will follow the tennis game, still hard to believe nobody has taken the wii sports tennis mechanics and fleshed them out more, hopefully this builds on that and they dont try and shoehorn buttons into the control scheme.
    Edited by 1 at 27/02/09 @ 09:12

  • ChrisS #2 3 years ago

    Virtua Tennis 2009 - also featuring MotionPlus - is out in May, so I'd imagine the peripheral will be earlier still. There's a noticeable gap in major first-party releases (in the recently announced US schedule) between early March and late April...

  • Nabokov #3 3 years ago

    The style looks excellent. I mean that it''s cartoony instead of "photo realistic". All graphics for Wii should be cartoony.

  • CallousB #4 3 years ago

    They also announced that Dead Space - Extraction will use MotionPlus as well .
    Edited by 1 at 27/02/09 @ 10:04

  • daz_john_smith #5 3 years ago

    Looks like the Wii will be getting dusted off this year, it's line-up is already looking much better than the later stages of last years

  • ph101 #6 3 years ago

    i wonder if you move your character though. And if that would be good or a bad thing.

  • Marshall2008 #7 3 years ago

    @CallousB
    no they didn't

    [link url=http://kotaku.com/5162357 /report-dead-space-extraction-will-not-have-motionplus-suppo rt
    ]http://ko taku.com/5162357/report-dead-sp...[/link]

    Quote:
    IGN is saying that earlier news that Dead Space: Extraction would support Wii's MotionPlus technology "is merely misinterpretation," according to an unnamed Electronic Arts representative.

    During a Thursday conference with investors, the Chief Operating Officer John Pleasants discussed MotionPlus support within EA's Tennis and Tiger Woods 2010 titles. Continuing the thought, he mentioned Dead Space, "which which some interpreted as a conformation of MotionPlus in Dead Space," said IGN.

    "MotionPlus in a cursor-based game? It seemed a bit excessive, given Extraction's design," wrote IGN. They contacted someone at EA and were told, in fact, no MotionPlus in Extraction, although they don't offer a direct quote or a source name. They went on to reason that:

    With the game essentially taking on the other "light gun" classics on Wii such as Umbrella Chronicles and the more recent House of the Dead: Overkill, the focus is on the system's IR functionality, and we'd assume EA went without MotionPlus because, quite frankly, it just isn't needed in this type of title.