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I've played more MK Wii custom tracks, on split-screen multiplayer, than pretty much any other multiplayer game for the past few years. The custom mkwii wiki has 17,000 articles…
by andrepd · Oct 31, 2026
Wii turns 20 on 19th November 2026.
by msephton · Oct 31, 2026
I'll forgive you for thinking Wii was the peak because people are obviously biased based on the time they grew up. For me it was the SNES/Genesis era. Or arguably PlayStati…
by smolder · Oct 31, 2026
The term for those is "shovelware", and the Wii really did have a lot of it.
by opan · Oct 31, 2026
Agree to disagree on the Wii. It was fun, but the poor thing got a lot of dust in our households. A bit too gimmicky for us. Doubly so for the Wii U.
by NBJack · Oct 31, 2026
Soooo... can you make a Wii out of an Xbox 360? :D
by notpushkin · Oct 31, 2026
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The Wii is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released on November 19, 2006, in North America, and in December 2006 for most other regions of the world. 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. Read more on Wikipedia