But Nintendo says the Wii's popularity among the over-65 crowd wasn't totally unexpected because the game, which simulates sports like bowlingandtennis, is "intuitive ... not intimidating, " said Perrin Kaplan, vice president of marketing and corporate affairs at Nintendo of America.
While its graphics are even less sophisticated than the Wii's, it's even smaller and cheaper than Nintendo's product and the controllers are closer replicas of their real-world counterparts, such as bowling balls, tennis rackets, and boxing gloves.