2014 – 2015retired
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“One year of vacation on Golden Island, then home before the photo album filled.”
“It got everyone off the couch. That was the whole point, and it worked.”
The Wii, released November 19, 2006, was Nintendo's fifth major home console and its bet against the horsepower arms race with Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Instead of raw specs, Satoru Iwata and the team led by Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda chased a broader audience through motion-controlled play — swing the Wii Remote and the game answered. It was Nintendo's first console with native internet connectivity, and ea
Nintendo discontinued the Wii on May 20, 2014, closing a nearly eight-year run that began under the codename Revolution. It left behind motion controls as standard vocabulary, a handheld-DS friendship, and living rooms full of people who never called themselves gamers. It didn't lose the console war so much as politely decline to fight it.
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“One year of vacation on Golden Island, then home before the photo album filled.”
“It fit a console in your pocket, and for a while, that was enough to change everything.”
“Three red lights, a hundred green memories”