

Game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda led the console's development under the codename Revolution. In developing the Wii, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata directed the company to avoid competing with Microsoft and Sony on computational graphics and power and instead to target a broader demographic of players through novel gameplay. 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.

It was released on November 19, 2006, in North America and in December 2006 for most other regions of the world. The Wii ( / w iː/ WEE) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. Stand-alone: Mario Kart Wii, 37.32 million (as of March 31, 2020 ).
