NPD data for June 2009 show sales of the Wii MotionPlus add-on in North America have come mainly from the ‘Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10‘ game bundle of which 205,000 from the 374,000 total sold were part of. That means 164,000 of the $20 peripheral were sold on their own.
This probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise seeing as Tiger is the best Wii MotionPlus enabled game out there and a solid EA franchise, however with the launch of Wii Sports Resort we imagine sales of the add-on will be boosted at a much higher rate than Tiger can achieve.
The excellent golf game sold a total 272,400 copies and only 67,400 of those were for the game on its own.
Yesterday the IGN Nintendo team got their hands on the Wii MotionPlus peripheral and had some extended playtime with TIger Woods PGA Tour 10 and Grand Slam Tennis from EA.
It’s pleasing to hear that the hype and expectations of the device are warranted. Bozon had this to say on his blog:
“We just got in Wii MotionPlus today along with Tiger Woods and Grand Slam Tennis, and after many hours of playing (and trying to do work amidst even more playing) it’s obvious that WM+ is as big as everyone expects it will be. The bar is being raised on the contol front. This is the first time I’ve truly felt like motion has been done better than in Wii Sports Bowling, and frankly I don’t want a single other Wii title that uses motion without it. Hopefully the “waggle” days are over… at least for the games that matter.”
As a side note, Matt from IGN also noted that the add-on can be freed from the rubber sleeve after all. The other day it was reported that Wii MotionPlus was ‘embedded’ to the silicon jacket. Good stuff!
Joystiq got their grubby hands on Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 recently and with it comes this new footage of the Wii MotionPlus enabled game showing the new golfers and courses that the game includes.
This looks like the game all golf fans have been waiting for since the Wii was first announced. “It offers a greater degree of club control than we’ve ever seen in a game.” Said Joystiq. Bring it on!
Here is a bit of a rareity. New games coming earlier than their original release date! Both EA Sports titles Tiger Woods 10 and Grand Slam Tennis will now be releasing in North America on June 8th. Ok, so that’s only a week earlier but it’s better than being late!
Tiger and Tennis take advantage of the new Wii MotionPlus wiimote peripheral offering one to one motion control and the games now coincide with the release of the peripheral.
Not long to wait now!
Head inside to hear what EA had to say on the matter. Read more…
The EA Sports head executive, Peter Moore, has spoken of EA’s laclustre performance on Wii so far.
Talking in an exlcusive interview to UK website Eurogamer, Moore states that “I think we need to continue to work on the Wii. When I look at the attach rate on the Wii of our software to where I think we should be, we’re under-performing still, we need to do much better.” More on Moore after the jump. Read more…
