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Please read: If you are going to replace the current information on the Featured template, please see here before doing that and look at which order our next FA's will be put on this page. The Wii (ウィー, Wī) is a Nintendo video game console that was released on November 19, 2006 in the Americas for $250.00. It was then released in Japan on December 2, 2006, Australia on December 7, 2006, and Europe on December 8, 2006. In every country except Japan, Wii Sports is included with the Wii. For Wii Sports, in a conference, Shigeru Miyamoto explained how when they were creating the baseball game, they originally had Mario characters rather than the Mii characters, but soon decided to change it. The Wii came with 30 titles at its launch. Before the official name was announced on April 27, 2006, the console was codenamed Revolution. The Wii has backwards compatibility with the Nintendo GameCube, meaning GameCube games can be inserted into the disc slot and can be played on the Wii, making it the first home Nintendo console to provide official backwards compatibility with its predecessor. However, it was removed in later models. (more...)