Get These New Gotta-Have Features For Wii Console
Posted on 25 June, 2009 | No Comments
It seems the Wii console is everywhere, with lot of people buying the Nintendo Wii to play with family or friends. The Wii Fit accessory helped accelerate the console sales appealing to users other than just gamers and kids. Can the Nintendo Wii game system hold its own?
Nintendo has released or will be releasing plenty of new stuff. One big release was in May 2009 of the new Wii MotionPlus accessory. This accessory adds better control to the Wii’s motion-sensitive controller, so playing games is more accurate. Players can improve their play in things like golf and tennis, as well as battle games. To take advantage of the MotionPlus, a new version of Wii Sports is out, caled Wii Sports Resort.
There is also a new Wii console bundle coming too, with the new Sports Resort game and also the MotionPlus. Wii bundles come with a console, and some have new games also, for new users who haven’t purchased a console yet, but want to get one now with the new games coming out.
A new feature that Nintendo has in development is called the “vitality sensor”, a small fingertip sensor that clips on and uses a light sensor to read bio rhythms. This neat little item has the potential to measure brain waves, and give users a biofeedback experience. (Can you imagine a “meditation” game that teaches users to meditate?) This can help with teaching users how to focus, improve attention and other benefits. This is a feature which may be released in 2010.
Nintendo keeps attracting plenty of non-gamers to its console, with new games and fun for anyone, not just gamers. The perfect example is the Wii Fit which was huge for Nintendo, and helps anyone of any age start and maintain a fitness program using the balance board to work out, track progress, and build workout routines.
More sports games are being released as well, and finding Wii Sports bundles includes the games and accessories needed to work with the Wii console right out of the box. Virtua Tennis from Sega and Grand Slam Tennis from EA Sports are both new, and Grand Slam Tennis uses the new MotionPlus.
Also just look at the new release, EA Sports Active, which gives users a sensor pad to help track body movements while running in place or doing other exercises. These are the kinds of new games and accessories that are going to keep the Wii console in the top of all game systems.