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I've resisted the urge to get a Wii so far. Not because I don't think it's fun or anything; that's the furthest thing from the truth actually.

It's just that I already have an XBox 360, and I'm not made out of money. I got several opportunities to get a PS3 when it first came out as well and declined. But this... this might just make me get a Wii in the future. No secret that there is much Star Wars love in the Nation, and this quite frankly, would just be awesome.

From www.mania.com:

Can you imagine standing in front of your television with the Wii-mote firmly in your grasp ready to do battle in a lightsaber battle? Well, it may be sooner than you think, Maniacs. At the Hollywood & Games Summet in Los Angeles, Lucasart's Jim Ward addressed this much asked question.

"What would it take to make a lightsaber game for the Wii?", Ward, who is President of LucasArts and a Senior VP at Lucasfilm, commented:

"We’re all over that, and internally we have already played a lightsaber game on the Wii. It’s a lot of fun, and we’ll get there."

He added that the whole concept of a title using a lightsaber of Nintendo Wii was "...in place! There’ll be some stuff out this Fall - it’s going to be a lot of fun."

He could be talking about the upcoming LEGO STAR WARS: COMPLETE SAGA game which hits the WII later this year. Then again, he could also be talking about future Lucasarts games solely designed with the Wii-mote technology already in mind. Either way, it sounds sweet.