Wii For Dummies
Chapter One
How the Wii Came to Be
In This Chapter
* Reliving the Wii's secretive development
* Finding a system in stores
If you're like a lot of new Wii owners, you probably don't know much about
your new purchase or the story behind it. Sure, you may have heard a
snippet on the local news about how the system was almost impossible to
find after its initial release in late 2006. You even may have read a newspaper
story about how the system is catching on with all sorts of unlikely groups of
new gamers.
These factoids are just a part of the story behind the Wii. This chapter covers
the hundred-plus year history of Nintendo leading up to the launch of the Wii
and beyond.
This chapter also gives you some advice on hunting down your very own Wii
(or helping a friend hunt down a Wii, if you already own one).
I learned much of the history in the sidebars in this chapter from David
Sheff's excellent book Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American
Industry, Captured Your Dollars and Enslaved Your Children (published
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