Wii

The Nintendo Wii Logo

Wii is Nintendo's seventh-generation console, which serves as the company's competition against Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360. It, like its predecessor, the GameCube, is able to connect to software titles on the handheld of this generation, the Nintendo DS, and has a Pokémon game that will serve as a battle arena for the Generation IV Pokémon games - in this case, Pokémon Battle Revolution.

Features

Wii Remote

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.

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.

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.

Technical specs

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Wii and its controller, the Wii Remote

• 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, and two of them have been released.

• Pokémon Battle Revolution
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Great Adventure (unreleased in America)

Because the Wii features backwards compatibility with the majority of GameCube hardware, all Pokémon games on the GameCube are also playable on the Wii.

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.

• My Pokémon Ranch
• Pokémon Rumble
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (WiiWare) (Unreleased outside Japan)

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. It is unlikely that more games will be released this way, as the only remaining console Pokémon games are Hey You, Pikachu!, which requires a microphone, and the Pokémon Stadium series, which feature connectivity with the Generation I and II games, which the Wii cannot achieve.

• Pokémon Snap
• Pokémon Puzzle League
• Super Smash Bros.

Trivia

Wii seen in Diamond and Pearl

• 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.
• 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 and his or her alternate-gender counterpart each have a Wii in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver.
  • The player character's bedroom in Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia has a Wii next to the TV set in Chicole Village.

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  Wii Remote as seen in Ya See We Want an Evolution

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  Nunchuk as seen in The Grass-type is Always Greener!