Check the thread. That's exactly what one or two posters want.

Check the thread. At least two people have specifically said they want 1:1. It apparently isn't that clear, and I'm not creating any problem, either. I agree with Shifty, though, and you're both really arguing my point. I'm all for greater sensitivity, but that may not be sufficient to make gamers happy with Wii releases. (Not that Nintendo cares.)

I'd want true 1:1 input myself, but obviously it's up to game designers to make sure the game is still easy to play, and if that is done by adding 'assists' then that's fine of course! It's like a car-sim, where you can get some really realistic stuff going at the highest difficulty level, but you can make cars pretty easy to drive by putting all the available assists on.

For bowling, it would be perfect to have 1:1 motion input though, for instance. This would allow you to revert to similar strategies as real life - for instance gently rolling the ball if you're a kid. ;) and has the advantage that a wii-mote isn't nearly as heavy as a real bowling ball. For darts, too, I'd like 1:1 mapping.

In fact, if there will be games using 1:1 mapping successfully, this would be when I start considering the Wii for purchase. The lack of precision so far kept me from enjoying the system. I will certainly be tempted now to get a Wii-mote for PC experimentation at the very least.

They say they want 1:1, but would they actually like it if they had it? The odds are that it would look and feel very unnatural in a whole host of situations.

Not just forehand or backhand but top spin or back spin, drops, volleys, etc.

The Top Spin 3 game lets you use 3 different buttons for 3 different kinds of swings/strokes. Maybe it will require more skill/dexterity/motor skills than most gamers have but it would be interesting if they gave you the option of executing all these different kinds of shots with subtle differences in motion.

Or in a baseball game, there are separate buttons for power vs. contact swings. If that can be done through motion, the former would be executed by generating greater bat speed or acceleration.

You might also have an uppercut motion, to try to get under the pitch and try to lift it.

More important is that you would have to swing low for low pitches, extend for outside pitches, etc.

In other words, you would replace a combination of buttons and left/right stick inputs with a motion which incorporates all these parameters.

But again, maybe the demographics of the Wii doesn't lend itself to games requiring or offering this kind of precision.

I think with something like tennis they could have the tilt, speed and forehand/backhand position 1:1, but the height of the swing would probably be fixed so that it would be practical for making contact with the ball. Maybe a high and low, but not 1:1. The same goes for golf and baseball.

How do you do so with online PC gaming?, when one person might have a crappy old ball mouse and another a expensive high precision mouse.. Or console gaming in, for instance, a racing game where some will have a full wheel/peddal addon and others just a controller, its not an issue there so why is it one here?

This is a very unexpected and extremely welcome announcement, I have to admit it has me quite excited. Though I'm not 100% sure if it can actually help all current games, it may be something that requires developer support. In which case Nintendo better be giving them away with certain popular games and selling them by themselves for £10, otherwise it won't get the support it deserves.

The baseball game in Wii Sports already does that.. You're last sentence is solved pretty easily by difficulty/sensetivity settings. As it has been for years, if its too hard for you (whatever the age) change to an easier setting. Meanwhile the hardcore gamers Wii also apeals to can have the option of more accurate and challenging controls.

This is enabling technology - in the discussion I referred to above, I observed that in just about all physical games, the interface and rules are extremely simple. 2-3 year olds can get the idea, and it is extremely easy to get into most physical games, and yet they can offer offer feedback and satisfaction as far as skill building goes for the rest of your life.

Computer games do not, as a rule, work like that. There are several issues involved as to why, but one of the reasons is that computers do not offer the straightforward physical control that grants accessibility, feedback and skill building.

The Wii is a cheap commercially successful example showing that even a relatively simple motion recognition can offer a compelling experience. The physical to screen correspondence isn't perfect, and isn't likely to be in the future either, so the same degree of skill building and tactile satisfaction that physical games offer will probably never quite be there. On the other hand, the abstraction offers a wider gamut of virtual experiences. You can pick up your shield and sword and fight with venom-spitting dragons for instance, drive a jet-ski down rapids or whatever strikes your fancy, and have a sufficiently strong physical correspondence to the virtual world that the experience is both satisfying in its own right, and allows skill building and the accompanying sense of achievement.

So while the players do not start out as fully trained jedi, they can aspire to become damn good light-saber fighters, (and also use The Force via the nun-chuck. ;)) And they can potentially test their skills against others around the world, or fight along side them. Or imagine the battles of Middle-Earth fought by individuals making up armies, and they are fighting using their skill, not their "stats".

This would be very different from what we have today, and IMO vastly superior. Again, this is enabling technology - it opens up possibilities we can only hope will be pursued. If all that comes of it is slightly better golf games - well, that's decided by the games industry.

Maybe we need cheap, real-time mocap to control the onscreen characters. ;)Or if something like Eyetoy can be more refined to just track motion and render it to screen (instead of overlay graphics on a video input.