My sister has bought a wii for my nephew for xmas, apparently it is some bundle that lacks wii sports. So I have ordered wii sports 2011, plus a couple of lego games... but I want to make sure that wii sports is awesome on boxing day, not a week later following yet more shopping. Does anyone know if I ought to get any of the umpteen special controllers available as well?

My working assumption is that the sports are all playable with whatever default controllers come in the box, but some might be rubbish unless accompanied by something disturbing looking like the motion plus accessory, or some 8 piece competition pack :s

Total waste of money, you'll just hit them off things

Originally you needed a remote (wiimote) and for some events a nunchuck too (e.g. boxing).

The newer games might require the motion plus attachment which is either an optional extra for the original remote (plus into the bottom) or save the hassle and get the Wii Motion Plus remote which has it built in.

So, motion plus it is then. More money for Amazon!