Wii

ウィー Wii

The black Wii next to the white Wii.

Release dates Japan: December 2, 2006 North America: November 19, 2006 Europe: December 8, 2006 Australia: December 7, 2006 South Korea: N/A China: N/A Hong Kong: N/A Taiwan: N/A

Technical specs Compatibility with both 12cm Wii Game Discs and 8cm GameCube Game Discs 729 MHz "Broadway" IBM CPU 243 MHz "Hollywood" ATI GPU 88 MB total memory Full list below

Related information Console generation: Seventh generation Pokémon generations: III*, IV Console type: Home Colors: White Black Red Blue* Pink*

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Wii is Nintendo's seventh-generation console, which serves as the company's competition against Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360. These consoles have recently released their own motion controls, in the Playstation Move and the Xbox Kinect. However, many beleive these to be inferior, as the Move as to be recalibrated every time it is used, and the Kinect requires lots of space. It is the home console counterpart to the Nintendo DS. The Nintendo 3DS is set to have the same graphical and CPU capabilities as it. It, like its predecessor, the Nintendo GameCube, is able to connect to software titles on the handheld of this generation, the Nintendo DS, has a Pokémon game that will serve as a battle arena for the Generation IV Pokémon games—in this case, Pokémon Battle Revolution, and also has a storage system, in this case, My Pokémon Ranch.

Features

Wii Remote

A pink Wii Remote

A black nunchuck

Wii's controller is a strange and revolutionary one, instead of taking the dual-control-stick layout of the previous generation like its competitors, it is in a remote control form, with attachments available to work with compatible games, such as a control stick on a nunchuck attachment, or the Classic Controller, which takes on a layout similar to the other consoles' main controller. The Wii Remote is wireless, and features many innovations such as motion and tilt sensing, a first for game controllers. The motion senser requires a bar to be placed on the top or bottom of the screen. The sensitivity can be enhanced with Wii Motion-Plus, although currently it is not compatible with any Pokémon games.

Wii Menu

The Wii Disc Channel

The console features a custom GUI made up of different—and expandable—channels, all of which, save the Disc Channel, can be moved around to any of the 47 spaces available on the main menu. New channels can be downloaded via the Wii Shop Channel, including a browser and games from older systems playable via Virtual Console. The channels can be put on an SD card, and with the introduction of Wii Menu 3.3, you can access SD Card menus straight from the main one.

Wii also has the ability to send messages to and from other devices, so long as the Wii sends out the first message, an address book confirmation message, to the email address or cell phone number in question. When the recipient replies to the Wii's message, communication between the two devices will be active, and via WiiConnect24, others can leave messages for players of the console on its message board from anywhere in the world.

Backward compatibility

Wii is also backwards-compatible with all GameCube games, as well as with most of GameCube's accessories, such as the controllers, memory cards, GameCube to GBA cables, and microphone. It is not compatible with the Rumble Pack though.

Technical specs

• Compatibility with both 12cm Wii Game Discs and 8cm GameCube Game Discs
• 729 MHz "Broadway" IBM CPU
• 243 MHz "Hollywood" ATI GPU
• 88 MB total memory
• 512 MB internal flash memory, for game, channel, and data saving
• SD memory card bay for expansion of save space (2 GB maximum SD card size)
• Two USB ports for expansion and/or networking capabilities

Pokémon games

On game discs

Most Wii games are released on the Wii's own 12cm discs. So far, there are three known games that feature Pokémon.

Title	Genre	Release
Pokémon Battle Revolution	Battle simulation	2006
Super Smash Bros. Brawl	Versus fighting	2008
PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure	Action-adventure	2009

GameCube games

Because Wii features backwards compatibility with the majority of Nintendo GameCube hardware, all Pokémon games on the GameCube are also playable on Wii; however, Wii is not compatible with the Game Boy Player unless hacked with a modifier or played on a ROM using the Homebrew Channel.

Title	Genre	Release
Super Smash Bros. Melee	Versus fighting	2001
Pokémon Box Ruby & Sapphire	Utility	2003
Pokémon Channel	Virtual pet	2003
Pokémon Colosseum	RPG	2003
Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness	RPG	2005

WiiWare games

WiiWare

WiiWare games are special games downloadable via the Wii Shop Channel. Two Pokémon games have been released worldwide, and a third has been released only in Japan.

Title	Genre	Release
My Pokémon Ranch	Virtual life	2008
Pokémon Rumble	Action RPG	2009
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (WiiWare)	Dungeon crawler	2009

Virtual Console games

Virtual Console games are old games that were originally released on past consoles, and have now been re-released on the Wii Shop Channel. Like WiiWare games, they can be downloaded after being bought. There are two Pokémon games that have received this treatment so far, plus the original Super Smash Bros. game.

Title	Genre	Release
Pokémon Snap	First-person rail shooter	2007 (originally released 1997)
Pokémon Puzzle League	Puzzle	2008 (originally released 2000)
Super Smash Bros.	Versus fighting	2009 (originally released 1999)

Trivia

• The Wii is the first console to be able to play all three Super Smash Bros. titles.

Wii seen in Diamond and Pearl

• The AV cable for the Wii is only the third design Nintendo has used. The NES used RCA cables, while the SNES, N64, and GCN all used the same one.
• The player character and the player's rival each have a Wii in their bedrooms in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, while the player, his or her alternate-gender counterpart, Red and Blue each have a Wii in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver. Along with that, there is a Wii next to a TV in the S.S. Aqua.In the Sinnoh based games, a Wii, titled "game system", can be obtained via barter extchange in the underground and put in the player's secret base.
  • The player character's bedroom in Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia has a Wii next to the TV set in Chicole Village.
• The remote control for the evolution machine featured in Ya See We Want an Evolution was similar in design to the controller of the Wii.
  • The remote Meowth used in The Grass-type is Always Greener! resembled the Nunchuk.

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  Wii Remote as seen in Ya See We Want an Evolution
• Nunchuk as seen in The Grass-type is Always Greener!
  Nunchuk as seen in The Grass-type is Always Greener!

External links

• Nintendo (Japanese)