Surprise: Wii MotionPlus won’t work with older titles

“The Wii MotionPlus accessory is only for games that are designed to make use of its abilities.” – Nintendo statement

This isn’t shocking at all. Simply put, older titles weren’t developed with Wii MotionPlus and there isn’t any real way that games could be patched so that they would be able to take advantage of the peripheral.

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