Friday 6 January 2012

Wii

The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. The Wii is Nintendo's fifth home console and the direct successor of the Nintendo GameCube. As a seventh generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.

The console has a wireless controller, the Wii Remote, which can be used as a handheld pointing device and detects movement in three dimensions. The Wii Remote is also known as Wiimote and it has motion sensing capability, which allows the user to interact with and manipulate items on screen through the use of optical sensor technology. Another distinctive feature of the console is WiiConnect24, which enables the user to remain connected to the internet while the console is on standby.


 The Wii console contains 512 megabytes of internal flash memory and featured an SD card slot for external storage. An SD card can be used for uploading photos as well as backing up saved game data. The Wii has a PowerPC-based "Broadway" processor by IBM clocked at 729 MHz. The Wii console is backward compatible with all the official Nintendo GameCube's software, memory cards and controllers. There is also a microphone accessory which provides more realistic features to the Nintendo's Wii and is known as Wii Speak. It is connected to the console via USB. The device features an LED to indicate when the microphone is active.


Nintendo - Nintendo Co. Ltd. is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded in 1889. It has developed into a video game company and is Japan's third most valuable listed company with a market value of over US$85 million.


Mario is the mascot of Nintendo. As Nintendo's mascot, Mario is said to be the most famous character in video game history. The appearance shown by Mario has been changed many times during the series. Another portable game console developed by Nintendo is the Nintendo 3DS, which was released on February 26, 2011. It competes with the Sony's PlayStation Portable and the newly released PlayStation Vita. 

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