Nintendo Wii

Wii is Nintendo's fifth home console, the successor to Nintendo GameCube (console launched in November 2001). The console was announced officially on Wednesday, E3 Games of 2005 and released on November 19, 2006 in the United States, December 2, 2006 in Japan and on December 8, 2006 in Europe. Before the announcement of the official name of the console, on April 27, 2006, was known as Nintendo Revolution. His model is code of RVL-001 (whose acronym comes from ReVoLution). Sequences of famous series of Nintendo as Metroid, Mario, Zelda and Pokémon are guaranteed. Despite the statements of the company that will focus on a market "different", the console is competing with the Xbox 360, Microsoft's and Playstation 3, Sony's. The Wii, according to the report of the site UOL Games September 12, 2007, assumed the leadership of the new generation of videogames, causing the Nintendo returns to its position "original" that has taken 17 years ago.