''Wii'' is a series of simulation games published by

Nintendo is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes, and releases both video games and video game consoles. The history of Nintendo began when craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi ...

for the game console of the same name, as well as its successor, the

Wii U The Wii U ( ) is a home video game console developed by Nintendo as the successor to the Wii. Released in late 2012, it is the first eighth-generation video game console and competed with Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4. The W ...

. After a seven-year hiatus, the game '' Nintendo Switch Sports'', described officially as "a new iteration of the ''Wii Sports'' series," was announced, the first game to drop the "''Wii''" from its title. These games feature a common design theme, with recurring elements including casual-oriented gameplay, casts consisting mostly or entirely of Miis, and control schemes that simulate real-life activities. The ''Wii'' series was conceived by Nintendo executive

Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer, video game producer, producer and Creative director#Video games, game director at Nintendo, where he has served as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002. Widely regarded as one o ...

to package and sell similar

Wii Remote The Wii Remote, colloquially known as the Wiimote, is the primary game controller for Nintendo's Wii home video game console. An essential capability of the Wii Remote is its motion sensing capability, which allows the user to interact with an ...

prototype games in a single package.

Gameplay

The Wii uses motion sensors in its

to allow gameplay that incorporates physical movements by the player to control action within the game. For example, in the Baseball game included in ''Wii Sports'', the player holds the controller like a baseball bat and swings it in order to hit the ball in the game. However, in '' Wii Chess'', on the menus and in actual gameplay, the control scheme makes use of the

D-pad The D-pad (short for directional pad) is a compact input method developed for video games, designed to translate thumb movement into directional control through a flat, cross-shaped surface that rests on four internal switches. Each switch corres ...

on the

instead of the Wii Remote Pointer.

Games

''Wii'' has become one of the best-selling video game franchises, with each ''Wii'' game selling millions of copies. ''Wii Sports'' in particular is regarded as the third best-selling video game of all time, as well as the best-selling single console game of all time. By June 2009, ''Wii Fit'' had helped the health game genre to generate collective revenues of $2 billion, most of which was grossed by the game''s 18.22 million sales at the time. The largest subset of the franchise is ''Wii Sports''.

''Wii Sports''

''Wii Play''

''Wii Fit''

''Wii Party''

Other titles

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wii (Series) Wii games Wii U games Nintendo franchises Video game franchises Video game franchises introduced in 2006