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The Wii is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released on November 19, 2006 in North America, and in December 2006 for most other regions of the world. 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.
Satoru Iwata as Nintendo's president directed the company to design the Wii out-of-the-box to appeal to a broader range of players.
The Wii and several of its peripherals on display at E3 2006
Busy inside of a shop during the Wii launch in Hamburg
The Wii (top) compared in size to the GameCube, Nintendo 64, North American Super NES, and NES
Home video game console
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A home video game console is a video game console that is designed to be connected to a display device, such as a television, and an external power source as to play video games. While initial consoles were dedicated units with only a few games fixed into the electronic circuits of the system, most consoles since support the use of swappable game media, either through game cartridges, optical discs, or through digital distribution to internal storage.
A collection of home video game consoles, arranged in chronological order from bottom to top, at The Finnish Museum of Games, Tampere