The new black remote controller will be available with a black Wii MotionPlus add-on for $50. The black nunchuk will sell separately for $20.

"The Wii Remote revolutionized not only how people play games, but also who plays them," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "The new color lets people customize their setup, and the controllers make great stocking stuffers for players of any age."

This week we seek to measure your attitudes on the PSPgo, whose pre-release has been marred by retailer unhappiness, criticism of its price point, and disappointment in its lack of UMD support. We're also interested in your feelings on motion control, as 2010 figures to be the year when all three major consoles will have some type of full featured system. Finally, two games we've written about provoked a great deal of reader reaction in comments about them. Approval ratings will attempt to crystallize how you feel about both.

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The community wanted more games with MotionPlus and Ghostfire listened, adding in support for the Wii remote add-on to their upcoming gladiatorial combat title. Ghostfire CEO Ed Roman gushes over the addition.

"We listened to you, the Wii community. The community encouraged us to explore Wii MotionPlus and we listened to your feedback. The result is pretty awesome – we actually love playing it with Wii MotionPlus even more than traditional controls. We've also added a basic motion sensing mode as well, for people to use the Wii Remote + Nunchuk in case they don't have a Wii MotionPlus device. "

Check out the MotionPlus video for Rage of the Gladiator below, along with a look at how the controls work. Ghostfire hopes to have the game out in time for Christmas.

Wii MotionPlus Control Scheme
Nunchuck
Nunchuk thumbstick: Dodge left, dodge right, jump
C Button: Shield block
Swing the nunchuck: Shield bash. Doing this will start a combo if the enemy is vulnerable.
Wii Remote
Swing the Wii Remote Left, Right, Up, or Down: Perform aimed swings in those directions. You can optionally hold down B to aim low when swinging left/right as well.
Swing the Nunchuk: Perform a shield bash, which will unleash a devastating combo if you have sufficient energy.
A Button: Cycle through combo finishers that you have learned

WMplus instructions straightforward [GameTrailers]

In both written and video form, Wall Street Journal technology reporter Katie Boehret tackles Wii MotionPlus, Project Natal and something called Canesta, which works kind of like the Clap-on for your TV and stuff. Of Wii MotionPlus, she writes:

However enjoyable, the Wii MotionPlus is more of an evolutionary change than a revolutionary change. If you've never played video games on a Wii before, you wouldn't know what you were missing if you used the remote without MotionPlus.

But even so, Boehret seems just as sold on Wii Sports Resort as the rest of us. Now if she could just transfer some of her enthusiasm from her article into the video...

Playing With a More Sensitive Wii [Wall Street Journal]

Wii Sports Resort is Nintendo's first-party showcase for the Wii Motion Plus, the controller add-on that adds 1:1 movement sensing to the Wii remote. Some consider the peripheral to be a fix for the Wii remote, adding in functionality that should have been there in the first place, but that's neither here nor there. The important thing here is that up until now, we've really only had a couple of third-party sports titles we could use to test out the new device, and now we've got a dozen tiny doses of Nintendo-created goodness.

But how good is this Nintendo-created goodness? Should players immediately go out and buy three more Motion Plus adapters, or should they wait until something better comes along? The assembled game critics take a stab, shoot an arrow, and otherwise swing their Wii remote in a dramatic fashion at the question.

The Onion A.V. Club
The sequel to arguably the best freebie pack-in game in 20 years arrives bearing a $50 price tag, 12 tropical-themed mini-games, and one Wii MotionPlus, an inch-long attachment for the Wii remote that purports to vanquish the pesky lag between player movement and onscreen movement. Cynics will say that the game features only 10 mini-games, since two of the games-Golf and Bowling-are do-overs from the original. Cynics will also say that this game is a Trojan horse designed to sell Wii MotionPlus attachments. Those cynics wouldn't be wrong on either front.

Eurogamer
With 12 basic activity types rather than the first game's five, the first indicator that something's lacking comes when you spot a couple of familiar faces in the crowd - and not just in the form of the Mii Plaza residents you zip past while barrelling through the sky. Repeat performances from the original Wii Sports' golf and bowling games are enough to suggest that maybe even Nintendo knows it's packed the sequel with pretty distractions, but is lacking the big events to bind them all together.

CVG
We've had it for weeks. Are we bored of it yet? Absolutely not. On the contrary, we can't wait to get the game home so we can smash our mates and mums over the heads with plastic sticks in Swordplay, ace them with our now-killer top spin in Table Tennis and slaughter them with our epic Archery skills. Those are easily the three best new games in Resort, so we'll start here. Swordplay is the game we all imagined we'd be playing when we first saw the Wii Remote. It's that Lightsaber game we all wanted, only without the Lightsabers.

Nintendo Life
There's certainly no denying that Wii Motion Plus brings a much more realistic and accurate form of motion controls to the table and Wii Sports Resort makes great use of it from start to finish. Sure some of the games are better than others and you'll have to occasionally re-calibrate the Wii Remote by placing it on a flat surface for a few seconds, but as a whole, the package features plenty of playability to go around. As a single-player experience, the game is solid and will provide you with plenty of hours of fun...But if you want to see what Wii Sports Resort is really all about, you need to round up some players to come over and have some real fun. Because as much fun as the original Wii Sports release was, Wii Sports Resort absolutely blows it away in terms of overall fun factor.

Giant Bomb
By offering 12 events and covering a variety of different styles, Nintendo has almost ensured that anyone who remotely liked anything about the original Wii Sports will find Wii Sports Resort to be a lot of fun. On top of that, it's still just as accessible as the original was, making it a great choice if you're looking for games to play with people who don't play a lot of games. You know what? It doesn't even need that layer of qualification. Wii Sports Resort is great.

Kotaku
With a dozen sports and a total of two dozen ways to play them, Wii Sports Resort packs in the play with mostly fun games. You'd think that Wii Sports and Wii Play would have exhausted the minigame catalog for the Wii, but these mostly new games are a worthwhile addition to anyone's Wii. Even without the MotionPlus add-on, Wii Sports Resort is a must-have, must-play for anyone wanting to get the most out of their Nintendo console.

I like to move it, move it...

First month figures for the Wii Remote add-on were "nearly 374,000" according to the NPD Group. That was split between 205,000 Wii MotionPlus accessories packaged with EA Sports' Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and 169,000 additional accessories sold on their own. Not bad for a $20 accessory that works with a handful of games.

Those figures tell us that Tiger Woods buyers overwhelmingly went with the version bundled with Wii MotionPlus versus the one without. Only 67,400 of the 272,400 people who bought copies of the golf title opted for the game-only version.

We, of course, expect that Wii MotionPlus figure to skyrocket when Wii Sports Resort goes on sale later this month.

Shigeru Miyamoto, general manager of the Entertainment Analysis & Development Division—the team responsible for Wii Sports Resort—tells Nintendo president Satoru Iwata that the destination in the Wii sequel is essentially the star of the show. Wuhu Island, Miyamoto says, is designed to join the likes of Mario and Donkey Kong as a new Nintendo franchise, seen in multiple games.

"We really polished up the island, turned it into a resort and actually made the location into a kind of character," Miyamoto says in the latest "Iwata Asks" interview. "This will then lead to a range of island series... You could have adventure games, role-playing games, city-building simulation games... It will be fun to see all the ideas that we can come up with, won't it?"

Despite all the "(laughs)" peppered throughout the interview, Miyamoto sounds quite serious about "licensing it out as a franchise," meaning we could see Super Mario Resort or Tingle's Fantasy Island or... who knows what this madman will dream up next?

Miyamoto further justifies the idea by saying Wuhu Island will breed familiarity, like a real world city or town.

"We thought it would be a fun idea to have a location that everyone knows and then have all sorts of stuff going on there," he says. "It would mean that players would already know the town like the back of their hands by the time they came to buy the next adventure game. Everyone could play in a location they were familiar with which would truly turn it into a miniature garden."

Wait. Miniature garden? OMG PIKMIN 3 WILL BE ON AN ISLAND!

Iwata Asks: Wii Sports Resort [Wii.com]

The game launched on June 25, and in its first four days, the title moved 353,827 copies. Sales-wise for the first four days, that puts Wii Sports Resort behind Mario Kart Wii (608,000) and Super Smash Bros. Brawl (816,000).

Wii Sports Resort is bundled with Wii Remote add on Wii MotionPlus. The game launches in the West later next month.

Wii用ソフト歴代3位のスタート！ 『Wii Sports Resort』国内販売本数35万本を突破−−エンターブレイン調べ [Famitsu]

Destructoid have video. Video show how it go in. Watch! Or else rubber jacket get caught! Danger! Don't hurt jacket. Also, cord could get stuck! Don't let cord get stuck. Video show how you not get cord stuck.

And lock! Don't forget to lock! Video show you how to lock. Video also show how remove Wii MotionPlus from Wii Remote. It like putting in MotionPlus but backward. Very clear! Very helpful! It also show how Nunchuk go in Wii MotionPlus. Hmmm. Might be too much knowing. Brain tired.

Destructoid say video come from EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis. If you watch on disc, no way to stop watching. So watch here instead. Good video.

Wii MotionPlus instructional video assumes you're a moron [Dtoid]

The MotionPlus add-ons came sheathed in oversized remote jackets and an instruction manual warning me to keep my original jacket in case I ever wanted to use the remote without MotionPlus.

If you're not quite as worried about breaking things as Nintendo, you can extract the MotionPlus sensor and use it latex-free.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata asks just that in the Iwata Asks column on Wii.com. Here's the exchange between Iwata and Nintendo R&D's Junji Takamoto :

Iwata: I suppose the obvious question is: if it offers such huge advantages, why didn't you use it in the Wii Remote from the very start?

Takamoto: We actually looked into the idea of including a gyro sensor at the very start of the Wii Remote's development. But the idea was rejected due to issues of both space and cost which attaching a gyro sensor would entail.

Iwata: I see. But gyro sensors are measuring devices that have actually been around for a considerable amount of time, aren't they?

Takamoto: That's right. They were originally called gyroscopes and were used to measure angle and rotation speed in rockets and the navigation systems of ships. But they were very bulky instruments.

Iwata: They're fitted in the noses of airplanes as well, aren't they?

Takamoto: Right. That's the sort of size we're talking about. And let's not forget that they were also extremely expensive.

You know what's also expensive? Buying all the peripherals Nintendo releases.

The Gyro Sensor: A New Sense Of Control [Wii.com Thanks, Swarmster!]

Like other motion-controlled sports games on the Wii, playing archery is fairly straight forward. You hold a remote in your off hand — left if you're right handed, right if you're left handed — and then lift the controller up at the screen as if it were a bow. Then you lift the nunchuk up to the bow as if were the string. Then you press a button, pull back the nunchuk and after aiming by tilting the bow, let go of the button to fire.

The game requires you to compensate for distance and wind and the bulls eye target which slowly moves side-to-side. The game has you fire off shots at the target from a number of set distances and then rewards points based on where the arrows hit.

Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan scored 59 points when he played it, I scored 61 when I gave it a whirl. Enthused by my close victory over Gizmodo, I asked Reggie Fils-Aime what his high score was. It sounded like he said 89, but that can't be true. Right?

Thanks to the addition of Motion Plus, archery on the Wii was a fun little game, allowing you enough control to make you feel like the game was more about skill than luck or timing. The ability to carefully aim your shots by tilting the bow made for a much more realistic experience.

I was pretty surprised at how responsive the game's controls were. They added enough to the experience to make me start to anticipate the coming of Wii Sports Resort.

The adverts were filmed with a "super slow camera" and part of the clip explains how it works. Slowly.

Nintendo of Japan has confirmed, via new commercials for the Wii MotionPlus peripheral, that Wii Sports Resort will include... table tennis and golf! Yes, golf. Yes, that was in the original Wii Sports, but we'll presume that Nintendo will add something new to the mini-game beyond the addition of one-to-one motion control.

And table tennis? We've seen that before, in Wii Play—albeit with disembodied hands, not vacationing Miis.

Hey, when you're already stretching the definition of sports with plastic swordfighting and Frisbee fetch, you've gotta make some concessions. Even if the market is already going to be crowded with ping pong and putting alternatives.

Wii MotionPlus CM [Nintendo]

According to the latest issue of Nintendo Power, Ubisoft has confirmed MotionPlus only. "It's a huge risk," said Red Steel 2 creative director Jason Vandenberghe. "We have no idea what the penetration rate for Wii MotionPlus will be. We assume high. We would like it to be high."

Sure you would. Vandenberghe went on to tell Nintendo Power that he would love to say the game was compatible with a regular controller, but that the gameplay just wasn't there.

Red Steel 2 faces a huge risk [NIntendo Dpad via EDGE]

What Is It?
Based on the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the Wii version of the game will give players total control of their racket thanks to MotionPlus and blend pick-up-and-play with deep control and tactics.

What We Saw
I played several matches with and without Wii Motion Plus.

How Far Along Is It?
The game is finished, but the Motion Plus device was a prototype, I was told.

What Needs Improvement?
MotionPlus: Snapping the MotionPlus add-on to the remote certainly made Grand Slam Tennis harder, but maybe not for the right reasons. Instead of auto-selecting whether you were using a backhand or forehand, the game knew which you were going to use, and that worked great. But the game is also suppose to use the more refine motion detection to determine where your shot is headed and that seemed off. The developer I spoke to implied that such issues could be fixed when the retail version of MotionPlus hits. I guess we'll have to wait to see.

Serves: The serve didn't always work like it was supposed to, MotionPlus or no MotionPlus. On a few occasions the game didn't notice my throwing the ball into the air, or thought I had when I hadn't yet made the motion.

What Should Stay The Same?
Rally and Returns: Once the ball is on the court, Grand Slam Tennis quickly becomes a tight, strategy-packed and, mostly importantly, fun game of virtual tennis. Players can use the A and B buttons to deliver lobs or drops, and can manually move around the court with the D-pad or thumbstick to crowd the net or back-up for a hard return.

Graphics: It's hard to tell, with the likes of McEnroe and Sampras, whether the game sports big-headed characters or not, but either way their cartoonish noggens are a perfect fit for the game.

Sound: The remote will, I'm told, eventually make little sounds at key moments including McEnroe's famous "You cannot be serious" recorded by the man himself specifically for the game.

Final Thoughts
Grand Slam Tennis does all of the right things to push the already popular of virtual Wii tennis into the realm of lasting fun. The addition of different types of hits, ability to twist the racket and move yourself around, all add to the game's nuance, giving it a much needed level of sports strategy.

I actually got so into the game at the EAE3 event that I missed two appointments. But that could just be my competitive nature.

There's no point in releasing a shiny new piece of Nintendo plastic if there's no games to support it, so EA is moving up the release dates for Tiger Woods 10 and Grand Slam Tennis one week in order to coincide with the release of Nintendo's Wii MotionPlus, which both games support. Makes sense, doesn't it?

"This was important for us to bring in our ship dates for Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 and EA SPORTS Grand Slam Tennis to hit right at the launch of the new Wii MotionPlus accessory in North America," said Todd Sitrin, Group Vice President Global Marketing, EA SPORTS. "Fans deserve great games that use the new accessory, and now they'll have two that deliver authentic sports motion as soon as the Wii MotionPlus hits stores."

Both games will now hit stores on June 8th in North America, with the Tiger title available as a bundle with the Nintendo accessory for $59.99.

The announcement mainly centers on the fact that the game was created from the ground up for the Wii MotionPlus, and will be Ubisoft's first title to fully integrate the peripheral. Aside from the peripheral back-patting, the only other information provided is that the game takes place in a "desert-bound, high-tech metropolis", which explains the Western look of the game's protagonist.

"Red Steel was a unique opportunity for Ubisoft to work in tandem with Nintendo to create a title exclusively for the launch of the Wii console," said Tony Key, senior vice president of sales and marketing US at Ubisoft. "Red Steel 2 is another milestone for the company as it is the first Ubisoft title with full Wii MotionPlus integration."

See? It's all about Wii MotionPlus, and why shouldn't it be? No other launch title highlighted the limitations of the Wii remote as well as Red Steel, so it's up to the sequel to show us how much better control works now that Nintendo has fixed it.

Red Steel 2 is aiming for a Holiday 2009 release.

EA has announced that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010 and EA SPORTS Grand Slam Tennis for the Wii would be bundled with Nintendo's Wii remote fixing device upon launch in the UK. In North America, only Tiger Woods is getting the bundle treatment. With the UK versions of the two games jumping from £29.99 to £49.99 when sold in bundled form, we can most likely expect a slightly higher price point in North America as well.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010 is due out in North America on June 16th.