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Q: "Wii" vs. "Nintendo Wii"?

A: The first and most frequently asked question — and the official trademark is just "Wii". See the Talk archives (pages 6 through 10) and the separately archived survey if you need the details.

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A: The official trademark is not The Wii™ but Wii™. People generally call the console "the Wii" (like a common noun), while Nintendo prefers to phrase it as just "Wii" (like a name) to utilize its similarity to we (e.g. "Wii will change gaming forever"). A discussion on the subject can be found in Archive 18.

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At "Removable storage", there's text saying SD Card, but I think adding a citation noting that it's not available for the Wii Mini would be ideal since the article does say the Wii Mini removed SD Card support Lmk123v2149c (talk) 05:04, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wii mini was also released outside North America

It's stated in the article that Wii Mini wasn't released outside North America, but I had one in Chile, bought in a retail store in 2014. Since I don't have any source of that, I won't edit the article myself. 181.42.246.206 (talk) 03:49, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We would absolutely need sources that say that, as the current ones state it was made for the North America market. Masem (t) 12:39, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"5th best selling"

It is currently the 7th best selling according to the Best selling consoles page and must be updated, which I will attempt but I am not sure if it will let me as my account is new Coopersilva (talk) 00:47, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wii not inspired by DDR

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"Miyamoto cited the unconventional input controllers of Dance Dance Revolution as an inspiration for developing new kinds of controllers.[27]"

Remove entirely. Nowhere in the cited source does it say that. Miyamoto mentions DDR, but never as a source of inspiration: "There are examples of controllers that were made for specific games such as Konami's Dance Revolution. And for a long time, we thought that changing the interface would broaden game design and loosen creative constraints on programmers."

Here's the source: https://web.archive.org/web/20071121134859/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2006/tc20061116_750580_page_2.htm And here's a version where the first page is also available: https://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/11/16/2084887.htm Spikain (talk) 17:40, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done Day Creature (talk) 18:40, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]