Nintendo · 2006–2013

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Back when gaming meant getting off the couch. From Super Mario Galaxy and Skyward Sword to Xenoblade and unforgettable party games, rediscover the Wii library.

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Why it mattered

The little white box that put a controller in every hand

Nintendo walked away from the horsepower race in 2006 and shipped a console roughly the size of three DVD cases, with a remote you pointed at the TV and a pack-in game about bowling. Sony and Microsoft laughed for about a year. Then the Wii sold out every Christmas until 2009, out-sold both rivals combined for a stretch, and pulled in grandparents, nursing homes and people who had never held a controller. Wii Sports became the best-selling single-platform game ever made, mostly because it came in the box.

The Wii library has something for almost every kind of player: Nintendo classics, couch multiplayer, fitness favorites, cult hits, and plenty of delightful oddities. Physical editions have their own collecting details, too. Original cases, manuals, Wii Sports pack-in sleeves, and Nintendo Selects reprints aren't all interchangeable.

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Fast facts

ReleasedNovember 19, 2006 (North America, two weeks before Japan)
Launch price$249 with Wii Sports in the box
Media12 cm Wii optical disc, plus GameCube discs on early models
Units sold~101 million worldwide
Best sellerWii Sports — ~82 million, almost all as the pack-in
Did you know?The console was announced as the "Revolution" and renamed Wii a few weeks before E3 2006. Nintendo said the two lower-case i's were meant to look like two people standing side by side, and that the word was easy to say in every language. The press spent a week making jokes about it; the console then out-sold the PlayStation 3 for years.
Did you know?Wii Sports was a pack-in in North America and Europe, which is why it is usually estimated at over 80 million copies — the best-selling single-platform game of all time. Because it shipped in a paper sleeve rather than a case, a loose Wii Sports disc is often complete as issued, and a boxed retail copy is the less common one.
Did you know?The original Wii plays GameCube discs and has four GameCube controller ports and two memory card slots under a flap on top. The 2011 "Family Edition" (RVL-101) dropped all of that, and the 2012 Wii Mini dropped online play and the SD slot too. If you want a Wii for GameCube games, check that the flap is there.
Did you know?Nintendo Selects began bringing popular Wii games back at budget prices in 2011. These reprints feature distinctive packaging, which collectors often distinguish from original releases.
Did you know?The Wii is region-locked, and Nintendo of America famously refused to publish Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story and Pandora's Tower until a fan campaign called Operation Rainfall pushed them over. Xenoblade shipped in 2012 as a GameStop exclusive, which is part of why it climbed in price for years afterward.
Did you know?Every Wii Remote shipped from late 2007 came with a rubber jacket, and every one shipped after mid-2007 came with a strengthened wrist strap — Nintendo replaced the original thin straps for free after a wave of televisions met controllers at speed. The white Remote is the common one; black, blue, pink and red were bundle colors.
Did you know?Manhunt 2 almost didn't ship: it was refused a rating in the UK and initially rated Adults Only in the US, and Rockstar cut and blurred it to earn an M. The Wii version was the first M-rated game to use motion controls for the kills, which was exactly what the fuss was about — one of the few Wii games with a censored-variant story attached.
Did you know?The Wii Shop Channel closed in January 2019, taking WiiWare and Virtual Console purchases with it. Games that only existed there — LostWinds, World of Goo, Bit.Trip on WiiWare — can no longer be bought new, which is why disc compilations like the Bit.Trip Complete disc and Rhythm Heaven Fever get more attention than they did when they were new.

THE SHELVES WII GAMES WORTH REMEMBERING

Hand-picked shelves, filled live from what is in stock right now. Best condition first — jump to a condition below.

Counts are listings in stock — the same game can appear more than once in different packaging.

The grails

Xenoblade Chronicles, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, The Last Story, Pandora's Tower — the Wii games with waiting lists, and the Operation Rainfall three.

Nintendo's own

Super Mario Galaxy, Galaxy 2, Skyward Sword, Twilight Princess, Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii, Donkey Kong Country Returns — the first-party run that carried the console.

Living room instruments

Guitar Hero, Rock Band, DJ Hero, Karaoke Revolution, Just Dance, Dance Dance Revolution — the Wii was a party, and the party came with plastic.

The sweat shelf

Wii Fit, EA Sports Active, Gold's Gym, The Biggest Loser, Zumba, Just Dance — Nintendo sold a bathroom scale for $89 and America stood on it.

It came with a portal

Skylanders Spyro's Adventure, Giants, Swap Force, Trap Team, SuperChargers, Imaginators — six years of Activision selling plastic figures with a disc attached.

The brick shelf

LEGO Star Wars III, LEGO Batman, LEGO Batman 2, LEGO Indiana Jones 2, LEGO Lord of the Rings, LEGO Harry Potter — Traveler's Tales built the same game nine times and every one of them was good.

Bring the kids

Epic Mickey, LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Batman, de Blob, Rayman Raving Rabbids, SpongeBob, Kirby's Epic Yarn — the reason the Wii lived in the family room and not the basement.

Ported to the Wii, somehow

Resident Evil 4, Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, Monster Hunter Tri, Marvel Ultimate Alliance — big-console games rebuilt for a remote and a nunchuk, some better for it.

Wrestlers and quarterbacks

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw, Madden All-Play, NHL 2K11, Tiger Woods, Punch-Out!!, Mario Super Sluggers, Deca Sports — the sports shelf, where the Wii Remote pretended to be a bat, a club and a fist.

Games about sitting on the couch

Game Party, Carnival Games, Wii Party, Family Game Night, Mensa Academy, Mystery Case Files, Trivial Pursuit — the Wii's largest genre by volume was "things you do at Thanksgiving."

Red band, Nintendo Selects

Mario Kart Wii, Super Mario Galaxy, Wii Sports Resort, Twilight Princess, Animal Crossing: City Folk — the $19.99 reprints with the red stripe, and the plain first prints they replaced.

GAMES WITH ORIGINAL CASES

Wii games with their original cases. Check each listing for manuals and additional contents.

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Game with manual

Disc and manual, without the original case.

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Loose discs

Disc only — tested, photographed, priced accordingly.

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Sealed

Factory sealed and photographed through the shrink.

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