My Motion Plus' impressions:
Finally got it, I fuckin had to buy seperately the M+ and GST since the bundles weren't out here in Italy, some made their way in some cities but are really really scarce.
What is the result? Simple, people are buying the game (Tiger Woods isn't out yet in EU) but not the M+ add-on, since the clerks I've spoken to have absolutely no idea what it is for "It amplifies the Wii signal so that you can play being farther from the console" are amongst the ridiculous explanation I've heard more than a couple of times-.
Honestly there was no interest around this long awaited accessory, and it was really really difficult even for the gamestores' clerks to grasp why this device is so good and so important for the games and the new approach to the console's motion controls.
Even the EA games don't do anything to underline the greatness of the motion plus controls, a third of a page in the manual and no real video to show it off in game or something like that, and Tiger Woods is straight and simple but if it wasn't thanks to the post I've read here on how to "tame" M+ on GST and how to play the game I could see how some occasional player can label the controls (and thus, sadly, M+) as broken.
Not including a video tutorial was a criminal mistake on EA's part and Nintendo took it to lightly to leave it to EA to promote the add-on and it's early success just with their games, even that one video released with John Singleton (producer) playing with M+ would have done a whole lot of difference on how to move and hold the remote.
In the end, as a gamer enthusiast and former circuit tennis player I am amazed by M+ and it really is everything I've ever wanted the Wii to be, and it makes me smile that this is just the first game to use it so good times are coming as devs learn to do better with it.
But, while I could never see myself going back to M+ less controls now, my gf, a Mario-Kart/Wii Sports/and such crazy-fan, couldn't really enjoy the new controls nor had the patience/skills to learn them for more than the 20 minutes it gave to the game, and so she was more than happy to go back to the basic Wii remote controls and just leave it at that... and she's loving GST now.
Only Wii Sports could change that, and even that... I don't know.
Hopefully people will buy because it is necessary to play a game they want, but I'm sure they won't even know WHY it is needed and what exactly changes thanks to M+.
They'll probably be pissed and shocked to learn they need to buy another M+ to play multiplayer too, just watch it. :-/