Family-friendly Wii out to win battle-loving gamers

October 4, 2008 Eric Powell and Brad Wetherell participate in the Wiimbledon Wii Tennis tournament

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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