Family-friendly Wii out to win battle-loving gamers
October 4th, 2008
Mario Pirchala holds the Wii control as he participates in the Wiimbledon Wii Tennis tournamentin June 2008 at Barcade in Brooklyn, New York. A cadre of studios joined Nintendo in San Francisco on Friday to demonstrate that the Wii's motion-sensing controllers can simulate guns and swords as well as golf clubs and orchestra batons.
Eric Nofsinger is betting that Nintendo's hot family-friendly Wii videogame consoles can win the hearts of "hardcore gamers" that lust for battle in action-packed virtual worlds.
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