One of the new game reveals by Nintendo on the Kodak Theater stage was Wii Sports Resort, a follow-up to Wii Sports that showcased the company's new Wii MotionPlus accessory, that would allow for 1:1 control for the Wii Remote.

IGN gave it's hands-on impressions for the three minigames showcased in Wii Sports Resort on the floor: Disc Dog, Sword Play, and Power Cruising. They came away with the feeling that the Wii MotionPlus really works, and were impressed with the accuracy of the device in all three games.

Wii Sports Resort will reportedly retail for USD 49.99, and bundled with the Wii MotionPlus. It is set to release in the Spring of 2009 in the US.

Ever since we first played with the Wii remote and swung a virtual tennis racket or hit a virtual baseball, we threw out terminology like 1:1 control ratios and real-time manipulation. But the Wii remote never quite delivered on the promise it first showed, namely because the built-in accelerometers worked well with big, grandiose movements, but lacked the measuring accuracy to gauge and realistically translate the subtler motions. As a result, you could effortlessly swing your on-screen baseball bat in a big, arching motion, but you couldn't, say, swing a virtual sword with any sense that you had a great detail of accurate control over the action. The good news is that Nintendo is on the threshold of changing all of that once and for all thanks in whole to a little attachment that plugs into the bottom of your Wii remote. It's been coined MotionPlus, but we prefer to think of it as an integral ingredient -- that little something that's been missing from the Wii remote all along.

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