The Wii is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It is Nintendo's fifth major home game console and is generally considered to be in a seventh-generation console alongside Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.
Nintendo focused on appealing to a broader audience through innovative gameplay and software, rather than competing with Microsoft and Sony on raw power of computing hardware. This led to the Wii to be more compact that its competitors, but with lesser graphical capability. The Wii emphasized new forms of interaction, particularly through its wireless controller. The Wii Remote featured motion-tracking controls, could recognize gestures, and functioned as a pointing device. The Wii was also Nintendo's first console with native Internet connectivity, enabling online gaming and digital distribution via the Wii Shop Channel
Because of Nintendo's reduced focus on hardware power, the Wii and its games were less expensive to produce than those of its competitors. Extremely popular at launch, the Wii remained in short supply in some markets even a year after release. Wii Sports, a pack-in game, became the Wii's “killer app” while new entries in the Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, and Metroid series helped boost its long-term popularity. The Wii became the best-selling console of the seventh generation, with total lifetime sales reaching over 101 million units worldwide.
CPU: IBM Broadway @ 729 MHz
Memory: 24 MB1T-SRAM + 64 MBGDDR3 SDRAM
Media: Custom DVD optical disks
Display: Composite video (480i,576i (PAL)), S-Video (480i (NTSC consoles only)), Component video (480p)