Wii

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Wii
ウィー Wii
Nintendo Wiis.png
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*
External links

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

Wii seen in Diamond and Pearl

External links

Game systems with Pokémon games
Nintendo handheld consoles
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DS (Lite · DSi · DSi XL) • 3DS (XL · 2DS · New 3DS · New 3DS XL · New 2DS XL)
Switch (Lite · OLED)
Nintendo home consoles
SNES (BS-X · SGB · NP · SGB2) • N64 (DD) • GCN (GBP)
Wii (Family Edition · mini) • Wii U
Switch (OLED)
Sega consoles
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