Wii
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Wii (spoken like the pronoun we) is a video game console made by Nintendo. It was released on November 19, 2006 in North America, on December 2, 2006 in Japan, and on December 8, 2006 in Europe. It plays video games made for Wii, and for the older video game console made by Nintendo, GameCube. Wii can also play video games made for NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64, Genesis and TurboGrafx 16 by downloading them from the Internet.
Wii costs less than other consoles such as PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The company says they want to focus more on new ways to play games as well as realistic images.
Wii uses a controller, called Wii Remote, that is very different from the controllers of other video game consoles. It can be held with just one hand, and it tells the Wii when and how people move it.
By making the Wii, Nintendo says they are trying to "reinvent" the way video games are looked at and played. The Wii was targeted to all people. By making the remote control motion sensing, they think that they can get people who don't normally play games to start playing games.
The games available when the console first came out were:
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
- Madden NFL 07
- Need for Speed: Carbon
- Metal Slug: Anthology
- Splinter Cell: Double agent
- Far Cry Vengance
- Rayman: Raving Rabbids
- Red Steel
- Rampage: total destruction
- Happy Feet
- Tony Hawk: Downhill Jam
- Spongebob Squarepants: Creature of the Krust Krab
- Avatar the Last Airbender
- Super Monkey Ball Blitz
- Excite Truck
- Trauma Center: Second Opinon
- GT Pro series
- Monster 4x4: world circiut
- Dragon Ball z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
- Grim Adventures of Bill & Mandy
- Cars
- Barnyard
- Ant bully
- Call of Duty
- Ultimate Alliance
- Open Season
- Super Swing Golf
- Elebits
- wii sports
- wii play
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