Ooooh boy..... ya know what I see with this? Squeals to the "Petz Horsez" game. Really, I wont be able to stand any more of those....my sister likes playing them on the DS and that's bad enough, I can't imagine the horror of them booting it to the Wii as well.
Well, since Nintendo has already announced it, no doubt that they are going to sell it. I've never bought extensions to whatever the heck they've been doing, unless it came with the game I bought. Oh wait...we bought the balance board for Wii Fit. Well, that game was crap anyways. Another bad investment by my sister, cost us about $80 for a game that only lasted us about a week. I can see this thing being a similiar situation, people will go out and buy this (hopefully not excited, that would be just morbid) and waste all their money on a piece of crap that will never get used again.
Honestly, I'm getting sick of Nintendo encouraging people to buy this stuff. Yes, I am well aware that it makes them lots of money off of suckers willing to buy this crap, but I just feel like videogames have lost their identity, so to say. With all this stuff to try and get the casual gamer to come in, it's flooding us hardcore gamers out. It's really putting a different identity on what videogames are, and I prefer the title "geeky" than "normal suff that everyone does now". And since I'm a girl, being a core gamer makes me all the more different, and I like that, but all this stuff is... taking that title away. Yes, an odd way to think, but that's how I see it. Videogames are eventually not going to have a split between core and casual, it's going to be mixed, and the games will present no challenge to the core crowd. And when that happens, Nintendo is going to loose a LOT of respect and business.
Back to the topic at hand, if it was required for a Zelda game, I wouldn't invest in it with my own money. Though knowing my sister, she would so it wouldn't matter to me. I sure hope that this is just an extra mod, because if it isn't, the next Zelda game aint gonna be a best seller like it was when Twilight Princess came out. (That game hit the Geniuses World Record book for most sold in a year, actually.)