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Wii Mini - Canada launch
RVL-201 · Nintendo · 2012
Why
release type “regional» - no lower than Uncommon. Estimate: exact units produced unknown.The Wii ( WEE) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released on November 19, 2006, in North America, and in December 2006 for most other regions of the world. It is Nintendo's fifth major home game console, following the GameCube, and is a seventh-generation console alongside Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. The Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, focused on appealing to a broader audience through innovative gameplay, rather than competing with Microsoft and Sony on raw computational power. Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda led development, which was initially codenamed Revolution.
For now, in English only. Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0How to tell them apart
Small top-loading black/red console, 'Wii mini' logo, red controllers.
Details from sources
Canada-exclusive at first; red colour 'indicative of the planned exclusive release in Canada' (Nintendo of Canada, via en Wikipedia).
Data source: en.wikipedia.org
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