There have been numerous videos of the Wiimote being used with computers, but this takes things to a new level. It turns out that Microsoft’s XNA Development Kit actually supports input from the Wii remote. Microsoft’s Chad Hower gave a demonstration at the Assembly Summer event. It should be noted that the support is solely for the PC games. Xbox 360 games can’t be programmed to support the Wiimote. It will be interesting to see just how far developers for the PC will exploit this. Of course, this could also mean that we’re just going to see an army of party games and PlayStation 2 ports for PC.

It’s still unknown whether XNA will work with the nunchuk or not, but there isn’t any reason why it wouldn’t.