Before the festivities of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E³) were even started, Nintendo jumped the gun with their announcement of a new attachment for the Wii Remote, Wii MotionPlus. The promise of this new peripheral is true 1:1 motion for the controller, giving developers and players the amount of freedom that we all thought we were going to get the launch of the Wii.

We know at this point, as from Nintendo’s E³ Press Conference, that MotionPlus will be packaging along with the sequel to Wii Sports: Wii Sports Resort. Demonstrating Frisbee tosses and sword fighting in their demo of the title, the audience and Nintendo fans were able to see just what they had hoped for in the amount of control available. A video was released by the developers of the middleware system for controlling the unit, giving a better look into just how the system worked, and what it offered to the hopeful.

So, a few weeks into this announcement an interview from the Wall Street Journal with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has emerged and revealed vague, but telling details of exactly what price point we’ll see.

“There will be games that will be enhanced by the Wii Motion Plus as well as games that can only be played with it. Users will need four if they have four controllers, but we’re going to try to offer it for as little as possible.”

Given the fact that Nintendo has already moved Classic Controllers and Nunchuk attachments into the homes of most Wii owners at a price of $24.99 (CDN) each, what are the chances that this “afforable” attachment will follow the same formula. Given that some games can only be played using the MotionPlus, as with the Nunchuk, it seems that we’ll likely be asked to adopt a similar scheme. The formula follows the same idea as the original Wii Sports, giving you the taste of Remote + Nunchuk controls but only allowing a second player for the Wii Boxing portion once you ponied up for the second.

Given Nintendo’s strong hold on the market right now, and the fact that they’ve not seen fit to lower the prices of their hardware across the board yet, it is likely that they will subject Wii owners to the 25 dollars per controller, bringing back the old argument that now the controller in full will cost very near the 100 dollar mark just to be able to play all the games available for the system.

And if it is done well at all, it will probably be just as adopted as the rest of the attachments so far. So what is it worth to you?