It won its generation with a television remote. The Wii sold 101.63 million consoles by ignoring the power war entirely – motion controls, a $249 price, and Wii Sports in the box – and put gaming into retirement homes and rehab wards before the audience drifted away as fast as it came. This page is the complete story: the blue-ocean gamble, the two-year sellout, the masterpieces and the shovelware, and the homebrew afterlife that never stopped.
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80% of Japanese Gamers Agree: After 20 Years, PS3 and Wii Are Retro Now – the generation that felt like tomorrow is officially yesterday, say the players who lived it.
Its predecessor, the console whose failure forced the gamble: the GameCube.
