The Wii And Its History
When the Gamecube was released in 2001, Nintendo started work on an all new console, initially named the Revolution. Nintendos focus for the next console was simple and to focus on a new form of player interaction. Nintendo did not want to compete on hardware specification and that the video games market may suffer if everyone was competing for power. The basic and simplce concepts applied helped to create the Wii as it is today.The Nintendo Wii is the 5th games console to be launched by Nintendo and was originally announced at E3 2004. At that point, no one really knew what the Wii was about until Nintendo unveiled it for the first time at E3 2005.
Nintendo rocked the world at the Tokyo Game Show as they gave the first full demonstration of the Nintendo Wii
When Nintendo named the console 'Wii' during the 2006 E3, it faced its first media backlash as the original named revolution was thought to be better
The Wii was officially released later that year on the 19th November in the USA and the 8th December in the UK. The UK Suffered from a huge shortage at launch as Nintendo had distributed most of the consoles to the USA.
To date, the Wii has sold well over 56 million units - beating off intense competition from the xbox360 and PS3
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