Wii Wikipedia. This article is about the console released in 2. For its successor, see Wii U. Tabtight professional, free when you need it, VPN service. Wii. But the Wii U has better games. You have a library of Gamecube, Wii and Wii U games you can run on the console, not even taking the virtual console into consideration. Wii. Also known as. Revolution code nameDeveloper. Nintendo. Manufacturer. Foxconn. Type. Home video game console. Codemasters_F1_2011_211060.jpg' alt='Best Wii Vc Games 2011' title='Best Wii Vc Games 2011' />Generation. Seventh generation. Release date. Retail availability. Wii Family Edition2. Wii MiniIntroductory pricedetailsDiscontinued. Wii overallWii original modelNA October 2. EU November 2. 01. AU November 2. 01. JP October 2. 0, 2. Wii Family Edition. Units sold. Worldwide 1. March 3. 1, 2. 01. Media. Operating system. Filip Miucin joins IGNs Nintendo Voice Chat crew as a permanent member. Find out who he is, what games he likes, and what he thinks of Super Mario Odyssey, Fire. Its been many years since the original 3DS launched. Theres a new version with better 3D, improved controls, and of course, a wealth of excellent games to play. Available titles. The following is a list of the 397 games available on the Virtual Console for the Wii in North America. These games can also be played on Wii U. Wii system software. CPU7. 29 MHz IBMPower. PC Broadway 1. Memory. MB total, 2. MB Mo. Sys 1. T SRAM, 3. MHz, 2. 7. GBs bandwidth. This article is about the 2006 DS game. For other New Super Mario Bros. New Super Mario Bros. Storage. 51. 2 MB Internal flash memory. Removable storage. SDSDHC card. Game. Cube Memory Card. Display. Graphics. MHz ATIHollywood1. E/35524/5.jpg' alt='Best Wii Vc Games 2011' title='Best Wii Vc Games 2011' />Controller input. Wii Remote Plus, Wii Balance Board, Nintendo Game. Cube controller, Nintendo DS1. Connectivity. Wi Fi. IEEE 8. 02. 1. 1bg. Bluetooth. 2 USB 2. LAN Adapter via USBOnline services. Nintendo Wi Fi Connectionclosed May 2. Wii. Connect. 24closed June 2. Wii Shop Channel. Best selling game. Wii Sportspack in, except in Japan and South Korea 8. March 3. 1, 2. 01. Mario Kart Wii, 3. March 3. 1, 2. 01. Backwardcompatibility. Game. Cubefirst model onlyPredecessor. Game. Cube. Successor. Wii UThe Wii WEE is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 1. Psychology Notes Pdf'>Psychology Notes Pdf. As a seventh generation console, the Wii competed with Microsofts Xbox 3. Sonys Play. Station 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others. As of the first quarter of 2. Wii leads its generation over Play. Station 3 and Xbox 3. December 2. 00. 9, the console broke the sales record for a single month in the United States. The Wii introduced the Wii Remotecontroller, which can be used as a handheld pointing device and which detects movement in three dimensions. Another notable feature of the console is the now defunct Wii. Connect. 24, which enabled it to receive messages and updates over the Internet while in standby mode. Burn Dreamcast Gdi Files. Like other seventh generation consoles, it features a game download service, called Virtual Console, which features emulated games from past systems. It succeeded the Game. Cube, and early models are fully backward compatible with all Game. Cube games and most accessories. Nintendo first spoke of the console at the E3 2. E3 2. 00. 5. Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata revealed a prototype of the controller at the September 2. Tokyo Game Show. 2. At E3 2. 00. 6, the console won the first of several awards. By December 8, 2. In late 2. 01. 1, Nintendo released a reconfigured model, the Wii Family Edition, which lacks Nintendo Game. Cube compatibility this model was not released in Japan. The Wii Mini, Nintendos first major console redesign since the compact SNES, succeeded the standard Wii model and was released first in Canada on December 7, 2. The Wii Mini can only play Wii optical discs, as it omits Game. Cube compatibility and all networking capabilities this model was not released in Japan, Australia, or New Zealand. The Wiis successor, the Wii U, was released on November 1. On October 2. 0, 2. Nintendo confirmed it had discontinued production of the Wii in Japan and Europe, although the Wii Mini is still in production and available in Europe. History. The console was conceived in 2. Nintendo Game. Cube was first released. According to an interview with Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, the concept involved focusing on a new form of player interaction. The consensus was that power isnt everything for a console. Too many powerful consoles cant coexist. Its like having only ferocious dinosaurs. They might fight and hasten their own extinction. In 2. 00. 3, game engineers and designers were brought together to develop the concept further. By 2. 00. 5 the controller interface had taken form, but a public showing at that years Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 was canceled. Miyamoto stated that the company had some troubleshooting to do. So we decided not to reveal the controller and instead we displayed just the console. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata later unveiled and demonstrated the Wii Remote at the September Tokyo Game Show. The Nintendo DS is said to have influenced the Wiis design. Designer Kenichiro Ashida noted, We had the DS on our minds as we worked on the Wii. We thought about copying the DSs touch panel interface and even came up with a prototype. The idea was eventually rejected because of the notion that the two gaming systems would be identical. Miyamoto also stated,. DS had flopped, we might have taken the Wii back to the drawing board. In June 2. 01. 1 Nintendo unveiled the prototype of its successor to the Wii, to be known as Wii U. Name. The console was known by the code name Revolution until April 2. E3. 3. 0Nintendos spelling of Wii with two lower case i characters is intended to resemble two people standing side by side representing players gathering together and to represent the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. One reason the company has given for this name choice since the announcement is Wii sounds like we, which emphasizes that the console is for everyone. Wii can easily be remembered by people around the world, no matter what language they speak. No confusion. 3. 1Some video game developers and members of the press stated that they preferred Revolution over Wii. Forbes expressed a fear that the name would convey a continued sense of kidiness to the console. The BBC reported the day after the name was announced that a long list of puerile jokes, based on the name, had appeared on the Internet. Nintendo of Americas Vice President of Corporate Affairs Perrin Kaplan defended the choice of Wii over Revolution and responded to critics of the name, stating Live with it, sleep with it, eat with it, move along with it and hopefully theyll arrive at the same place. Nintendo of Americas president Reggie Fils Aime acknowledged the initial reaction and further explained the change Revolution as a name is not ideal its long, and in some cultures, its hard to pronounce. So we wanted something that was short, to the point, easy to pronounce, and distinctive. Thats how Wii, as a console name, was created. Nintendo has stated that the official plural form is Wii systems or Wii consoles. The Nintendo Style Guide refers to the console as simply Wii, not Nintendo Wii,3. Nintendo has marketed outside Japan without the company name in its trademark. Launch. On September 1. Nintendo announced release information for Japan, North and South America, Oceania, Asia and Europe including dates, prices, and projected unit distribution figures. It was announced that the majority of the 2. Americas, and 3. 3 titles would be available at its launch. The Wii was launched in the United States on November 1. United Kingdom on December 8, 2. The United Kingdom experienced a widespread shortage of Wii units in many High Street and online stores, and was unable to fulfill all pre orders at its release. The Wii was launched in South Korea on April 2. Taiwan on July 1. Software library. Retail copies of games are supplied on proprietary, DVD type Wii optical discs, which are packaged in keep cases with instructions. In Europe, the boxes have a triangle at the bottom corner of the paper sleeve insert side. Chrono Trigger Review IGNShare. Traveling through time, one more time. By Lucas M. Thomas It feels like weve come to the end of an era. Its been over four and a half years since the Wiis Virtual Console first went live. In that time, weve seen the re release of nearly four hundred different retro titles some masterpieces, some duds and lots of in between, average classics of yesteryear drawn from the back catalogs of the NES, SNES, Nintendo 6. Its been an interesting journey, with some of us reliving bits and pieces of our childhoods and others discovering these titles for the very first time. And now, with Chrono Trigger, it feels like the journeys come to an end. Chrono Trigger is one of the best video games ever made. A universally cherished role playing game, it was originally released for the Super Nintendo in 1. Its creation is the stuff of legend, as it was developed by a dream team of the most talented RPG makers of the 1. And though it would be easy to write pages upon pages to explain its appeal, Ill attempt just three key points to sum up what makes it so timeless. The first, appropriately enough, is time travel. Crono is the name of our silent protagonist in Chrono Trigger. A wide eyed, wild haired boy living in the year 1. A. D., he becomes thrust into a quest to save the world when a mysterious portal in time opens up and swallows his friend Marle. He boldly jumps in after her, setting in motion a story that has you following his adventures back in time to the past, forward in time to the distant future and every other point in between as what begins as a rescue mission for one young girl escalates into a battle for the fate of the planet. The time traveling concept set Chrono Trigger apart from other RPGs, as its many different eras of time are expertly interwoven and your actions in the past accurately influence the future. Other games of the SNES era began to explore the idea of alternate worlds or parallel dimensions, but here in Chrono Trigger you see the entire existence of a planet play out from the dawn of mankind all the way to beyond the apocalypse. That alone would have made Chrono Trigger a hit but time travel was just the first of its many special qualities. The battle system is second, as it was, and still is, wonderfully unique. You control a party of up to three heroes at a time, fighting foes right where you encounter them in the environment. Theres no visual cut away to some separate battlefield screen like in so many other RPGs here, you see a baddie and you attack it right there. Whats more, the battle mechanics present an incredible variety of opportunities for teamwork. Every character has a basic Attack command, and can use Items too. Standard stuff. But the third option Tech is where it gets interesting. Selecting Tech lets you unleash more damaging assaults, magic spells and support maneuvers with individual heroes, but you can also combine more than one characters moves together to create even more powerful combos. Cronos a skilled swordsman who can leap and slash up enemies alone, for instance, while Marles more magically gifted with the innate element of Water. Put the two of them together, though, and Marle can freeze Cronos sword mid air so that his strike hits with the impact of an icy glacier or Crono can spin his blade in circles while Marle casts a healing spell, to disperse the curative aura over every ally in the battle. The interplay between the games half dozen or so different playable characters is wonderfully satisfying, as each one is developed with a distinctive personality and individual sidequests that reinforce who they are and really get you to like them. And the fact that there are more than three characters to choose from, while you can only use three at a time, helps fuel the games third key point of appeal replayability. Chrono Trigger innovated the concept of a New Game in which, after completing the story and seeing the credits roll, you could choose to restart the adventure with your powered up, experience pumped characters intact. It was a great idea, as it made things speedier on subsequent playthroughs as you attempted to achieve a different ending the second, third or ninth time through because Chrono Trigger also innovated in offering tons of different ending sequences you could earn, depending on the choices you made while playing. All of this time jumping, three hero tag team battling and powered up questing for more and more different story conclusions all came together to create one incredible masterpiece of a game, wrapped up with the most beautiful artwork and the greatest soundtrack any SNES title had ever seen. It should go without saying that Chrono Trigger is still worth your time and money today, and that it comes with my highest recommendation for 8. Wii Points. Some naysayers will offer their opinions opposing such a purchase, pointing out that this same game has been recently re released on the Nintendo DS in an edition that includes a couple of new dungeons and a retranslated script. I hold nothing against that version, or even the Play. Station 1 port that added anime style cutscenes to the story 1. But this is the original. This is the game as it was as it first existed, as American SNES owners first experienced it on the SNES in 1. And spending just eight bucks to reclaim that same experience old poorly translated enemy names and all is, to me, the best of what the Virtual Console has always been about. Chrono Trigger. When a newly developed teleportation device malfunctions at the Millennial Fair, young Crono must travel through time to rescue his misfortunate companion from an intricate web of past and present perils in Squares beloved RPG Chrono Trigger. The Verdict. There will still be more Virtual Console titles released after this. The Wiis service isnt over quite yet. But were just days away from the launch of the Nintendo 3. DS e. Shop and its new, second edition version of the VC concept. So here, with this re release of a title still rightly argued as perhaps the very best video game ever made, it feels right to call this chapter closed. So whether it continues to offer dozens more classics from yesteryear going forward, or if it really is winding down to its final conclusion, support the original Virtual Console with a purchase of this gaming great Array its a download service that has sometimes been frustrating to deal with, but at the end of it all it really has let us travel back through time.