Wii out to win battle-loving gamers
October 4, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - 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.
Nofsinger’s team at US-based High Voltage Software is painstakingly crafting a “Conduit” first-person shooter game for the Wii that challenges players to repel alien invaders in a make-believe Washington, D.C.
High Voltage was part of a cadre of studios that 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.
“One of our missions from the start was definitely to make a game for the hardcore,” Nofsinger told AFP as he provided a glimpse at a version of “Conduit” nearing completion.
“What our game represents, and what we are really pushing for, is to deliver on the promise that Wii made when it first came out " games for everybody.”
Nintendo’s Wii has been an unprecedented success since its launch in November of 2006 and is credited with luring legions of “casual gamers” into a videogame world formerly dominated by young men and titles devoted to fighting.
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