When Nintendo held their annual E3 press conference last year, they announced for the first time Wii Sports Resort and the Wiimote’s MotionPlus. When they were showing them both off, they confirmed that they would come bundled together. Skip ahead 10 months later, and we were told by Mr. Iwata that Wii Sports Resort would be making its way to the states sometime in July. Everyone assumed that meant the MotionPlus would be on its way the same day. We were wrong.

Yesterday, Nintendo sent out a press release revealing the MotionPlus would be shipped on June 8th, with the game, which is still bundled with the accessory, is coming out a month later.  Because of the delay between the two, GameDaily had a good theory that the Wii’s existing library would work with the MotionPlus, but would first need to download some type of patch. Although it makes sense, and Wii owners would definitely be glad to see something like that — it just isn’t true, according to Nintendo.

The Japan based company responded to the website’s claim by simply saying:

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

As much as I would love to play Mario with the MotionPlus, why would Nintendo patch every game for the Wii when the unit is just a simple $20 add-on?