The Wii was Nintendo's first home console to directly support Internet connectivity, supporting both online games and for digital distribution of games and media applications through the Wii Shop Channel. The primary controller for the Wii is the Wii Remote, a wireless controller with both motion sensing and traditional controls which can be used as a pointing device towards the television screen or for gesture recognition. Game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda led the console's development under the codename Revolution. In developing the Wii, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata directed the company to avoid competing with Microsoft and Sony on computational graphics and power and instead to target a broader demographic of players through novel gameplay.
It is Nintendo's fifth major home game console, following the GameCube and is a seventh-generation console alongside Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. It was released on November 19, 2006, in North America and in December 2006 for most other regions of the world. The Wii ( / ˈ w iː/ WEE) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. Stand-alone: Mario Kart Wii, 37.32 million (as of March 31, 2020 ).
