EA Announces New Tennis Game For Wii, will use Motion Plus

Filed in archive Wii on August 21, 2008

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This has been a good week for Wii exclusive type news. From the official press release from EA:

GUILDFORD, UK. - August 20, 2008 - Electronic Arts Inc. (Nasdaq: ERTS) announced today that an all-new tennis videogame is in development at EA Canada in Vancouver under the EA SPORTS™ brand. The EA SPORTS tennis franchise will be available first for the Wii™ in 2009, followed by other platforms, and it will be the first EA SPORTS game that uses Nintendo's upcoming Wii MotionPlus™ accessory for the Wii Remote™ that will give players a new level of accuracy and responsiveness.

Any attempt at Tennis with standard motion control results in something similar to Wii Tennis, which of course already comes in the box! So it is great that EA is making a more involved tennis game that will use the more advanced motion control technology.

Via gonintendo.