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The Mii Channel is where a player can make an avatar called a Mii to represent them, either in the Mii Channel's online feature Mii Parade, or in games that allow using Miis and most other Wii channels mentioned here. Nintendo Australia (September 15, 2006). "Wii Australian Details". Nintendo World Report. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015 . Retrieved January 17, 2015.Sanders, Kathleen; Casamassina, Matt (September 13, 2006). "US Wii Price, Launch Date Revealed". IGN. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015 . Retrieved January 17, 2015. Nintendo - Current Network Status". Archived from the original on October 6, 2015 . Retrieved December 5, 2014. There is also a plastic wheel. These came with Mario Kart Wii and other racing or car driving games. The Wii remote goes into the middle of the wheel. There are some built-in buttons on the wheel to make it easier to reach the buttons on the remote. Nintendo of Europe (September 15, 2006). "Europe Gets Wii Last". Nintendo World Report. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015 . Retrieved January 17, 2015. Top Selling Software Sales Units". Nintendo Co., Ltd. March 31, 2020. Archived from the original on November 18, 2016 . Retrieved May 7, 2020.

The Wii Remote is a controller that is like a regular television remote. The Wii Remote uses accelerometers and infrared light sensors (from LEDs inside a 'sensor bar') to know where it is in 3D space. [24] This lets people control the game using physical movement and by pressing buttons. The controller connects to the console using Bluetooth. It has a rumble feature (the controller shakes when the game being played tells it to do so) and a speaker inside the remote. The Everybody Votes Channel was a channel containing regularly updated polls. There were three national polls (updated on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays) along with one worldwide poll. An Internet connection was needed to use this channel. Wii Shop Channel closing down in 2019". Polygon. Archived from the original on July 29, 2018 . Retrieved July 29, 2018. The Homebrew Channel is an unofficial (it does not come with the Wii) channel used for loading unofficial software, or homebrew. With Homebrew, you can do many things that the Wii cannot normally do on its own (play DVDs, stream media from a computer, run emulators, etc.). Nintendo launches Wii Family Edition on 4th November and Wii Fit Plus bundle on 2nd December". Nintendo . Retrieved November 23, 2011.Wii Mini confirmed for Europe, launching next month - Gaming News - Digital Spy". September 7, 2015. Archived from the original on September 7, 2015 . Retrieved August 31, 2018. Factfile: The Wii". November 17, 2006. Archived from the original on September 4, 2018 . Retrieved September 3, 2018.

There are many things called Channels on the Wii. They are called channels because, just like on TV, you can look through channels by pressing − and +. Each Wii Channel does something different. Some of them need to connect to the Internet to work, using either Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection or WiiConnect24, but some information that has been saved can be viewed without a connection to the Internet. WiiConnect24 could not be used anymore on June 27, 2013. Nintendo". Nintendo.com. Archived from the original on January 19, 2019 . Retrieved December 5, 2014. Discontinuation of WiiConnect24 Services | Wii & Wii mini | Nintendo Support". en-americas-support.nintendo.com. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019 . Retrieved September 4, 2018.

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