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{{quote|''"Wii Would Like to Play."''|'''[[Tagline]]''', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP-THj03Zk4 English commercials] for the Nintendo Wii}}
By the end of the [[
Nintendo focused on an innovative, motion-based control scheme involving the Wii Remote, or the [[Fan Nickname]] "Wiimote", a controller shaped like a fusion between a NES controller and a television remote control that could sense the movement of the person holding it. This lowered the difficulty curve immensely. Usually a beginning gamer would have to not only to learn how to control his character, but also learn how to control his ''controller''. "'[[Halo (
The Wii also focused on a low price point, (approximately $199 in Japan with no game, and roughly $249.99 elsewhere with ''[[
And it '''worked.''' The Wii's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|crushing marketing victory]], Day 1 profitability and ludicrously high sales numbers make it the most successful
Plus it did it all without needing specs that raised the cost of the system (which they could not have afforded). The innards of the Wii are based off the [[Game Cube]]<ref>Gearbox Software's president, Randy Pitchford, even [https://web.archive.org/web/20150127173947/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/13/interview-gearbox-president-sounds-off-on-wii-ps3-360/ referred to the Wii as a "supercharged GameCube"] in an ''[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]]'' interview</ref>. While its total polygon count is much higher, the Wii's hardware is still based off 2001 technology, so while it's cheap, it doesn't have the advanced features more powerful consoles have.<ref>The Wii has no hard drive for the sake of cost and reliability. Hard drives in consoles are used to stream large amounts of data as well as store it, and games like ''[[Doom]] 3'' and ''[[Half Life]] 2'' could probably run on the Wii if it had one. It's also missing programmable pixel shaders, restricting it to simplistic vertex-based shaders that cannot be modified. This became obsolete with the arrival of [[Direct X]] 8 (used in the Xbox) and [[Open GL]] 2, so in terms of shaders the Wii and its competitors are speaking completely different languages.</ref>.
Nintendo's online offerings are a far cry from the other system, including the [[Scrappy Mechanic|infamous friend codes]] (although those are being emphasized less and less). Nintendo has focused on local multiplayer, which the other two consoles seem intent on abandoning. The Wii does have [[Wii Ware|an online store]] like its competitors, and a separate Virtual Console store that essentially serves as legal [[Emulation]]. Unfortunately, a true mass storage solution (like, say, an external hard drive) didn't appear until the end of March 2009, and only a limited number of demo versions of the games are available.
Third-party developers initially either ignored the system entirely or tossed in some quick-and-dirty ports of [[
However, despite cries of "inferior" graphics and processing power, the Wii
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Games for the Wii mostly fall into one of four categories:
* '''Nintendo's first party titles'''. In addition to games for "classic" franchises like ''[[Super Mario Bros
* '''Casual games by other companies.''' Nintendo's casual games have delivered them gobs and gobs of money, and naturally other companies want in. This is mostly [[Ubisoft]] territory, but almost every game publisher has released at least one. Many of them include "We" in the title since they legally cannot use "Wii", like ''We Cheer'', ''We Ski'' and ''We Dare''.
* '''Ports, Ports and more Ports''': The Wii, hardware-wise is very similar to the [[Game Cube]] (In fact,
* '''Niche and budget games''': It costs around 1/4th as much to make a Wii game that it does to make a game on other consoles. This means that games that would normally be considered too risky or unprofitable to get made can be developed, and the makers of games like ''[[
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