Talk:Wii Family Edition

Why is this a page instead of merging it with Wii

There’s nothing this Wii can do the original can’t.

Pikmin3WiiU (talk) 04:34, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Respectfully disagree

I think that this page should neither be merged with Wii nor be deleted because there are differences between the original Wii and the Wii Family Edition. First of all, the original Wii is backwards-compatible with the Nintendo GameCube games or hardware while the Wii Family Edition can only play Wii games or hardware. Second of all, the original Wii has a GameCube controller port, which the Wii Family Edition does not have. And third of all, the original Wii is compatible with Wii peripherals, which must be connected through the ports, and Wii games which require such peripherals to play, while the Wii Family Edition is incompatible with those. Perhaps it is probably best to keep the Wii Family Edition the way it is. SaturnMario, his talk and his contributions 21:52, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Other wikis such as Nookipedia or MarioWiki don't have separate pages for the GameCube-less Wii models, and the compatible games can just be summarized like this

I was going to keep the four Nintendo DS models into two separate pages (DS Phat and DS Lite vs DSi and DSi XL) because of DSiWare titles not being playable on the GBA compatible models but I saw that none of them were Pokémon related so all four pages should be merged too. Pikmin 3 Wii U 01:22, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

GameCube games

Because the Wii features backwards compatibility with the majority of Nintendo GameCube hardware, all Pokémon games for the GameCube are also playable on the Wii; however, the Wii is incompatible with the Game Boy Player. The Family Edition and Wii Mini models lack the GameCube compatiblity required to play these games.

Title	Genre	Release
Pokémon Box Ruby & Sapphire	Utility	2003
Pokémon Channel	Virtual pet	2003
Pokémon Colosseum	RPG	2003
Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness	RPG	2005