Shaun White Snowboarding for the Wii had good visuals, awesome use of the Wii Remote’s motion sensing capabilities, and the best implemented Wii Balance Board support seen yet on the console.  If you liked it, get ready for more: Ubisoft announced Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage today exclusively for the Nintendo Wii:

Players will hit the slopes with Shaun White and his crew, but this time the stakes are higher as you pursue the world’s top competitions from a half-pipe in the middle of New York’s Time Square to the most prestigious competitions of France, Canada and Japan.

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David: Wii MotionPlus = $20? Yeesh.

Jack: when people actually use it, that’s going to become a sweet spot price point
my prediction anyway

David: yeah, but is it just another zapper?
an afterthought for devs?
games won’t ever require the damn thing.

Jack: all i can say is it will be different this time. and that Nintendo might counter that trend by having publishers include it with games as a bundle
voila, problem solved

David: I think they’re going to treat it like their other accessories.
the Nunchuk is the only successful Wii add-on.
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The groundhog came out of the ground and decided it wanted more winter to going snowboarding.  This week we get a Balance Board compatible game from Hudson called Snowboard Riot and Nintendo brings us a new puzzle game, Lonpos.  The onslaught of Master System games on the Virtual Console continues with Sonic Chaos.

If I had a Balance Board, I’d definitely check out Snowboard Riot.  Anything here enticing you?

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You may have seen this in the Infendo Newsletter today, but here’s the scoop if you missed it.  A developer at Google tapped into a few apps and wrote some code of his own to allow the Wii Balance Board to control Google Earth.  Pretty interesting concept, plus it’s nice to see the Balance Board getting some use.

Outside of Wii games, do you have any ideas on how else the Balance Board could be used?

Okay, so maybe we don’t talk about turkeys or the country of Turkey this week, but Kyle, Will, and I do discuss Play It On Wii, whether or not Super Mario Bros 3 is better than Super Mario World, the Balance Board is back, and the Wii Music Contest winner announced!

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