December 10th, 2012

An unboxing of the Wii Mini

76 Comments
Wii Mini

Okay, the Wii Mini isn’t strictly related to the Wii U. Even so, it’s a somewhat new system with “Wii” in the title, so I figure it’s relevant enough to post about at least once. And basically, there’s an unboxing that you can check out after the break. Enjoy.

  • Attackblast

    Seems nice if your going somewhere and your renting a hotel room and wanna play a game with some friends or your family and wanna play super smash bros brawl, this kinda is a thing I would like to get but I would rather have a Wii U of course.

    • Bob

      Unfortunately this isn’t ideal for playing Brawl for one reason: Brawl saves (actually all saves) can’t transfer. This means that you’ll have to unlock ALL the characters again, which takes time.

    • Ice Climbers

      If you are talking about transferring from Wii to Wii U, then yes you can transfer game saves, including Brawl. I know its possible because I did it already. If you are talking about transferring from Wii to Wii Mini or any other Wii, then no its not possible.

    • Bob

      Wii Mini, not Wii U.

    • corleonis88

      I don´t see a problem with that. playing the subspace emissary doesn´t take that much time. and if you you play vs with friends, you won´t even notice the time it takes. I unlocked all characters playing vs with my brothers (yes, we played a lot)

    • Ruby Doobie

      go into the custom battle thing, set it to stamina and have hp at 1 for your opponent and then put flower mode on, the enemy will die straight away, all you have to do is go through character/stage selection for each battle

  • Attackblast

    Oh your right Bob, I’m a fool sometimes lol. But yeah you still could play brawl with some characters but not alot so you better make some favorite characters in the beggining of the game! lol. ~ Attackblast. p.s. I WANT A WII U.

  • Darren

    Wow. This is nicer than I thought. I always wondered where the disc drive was! :P

  • nenelink

    I want those controllers

  • 3DSLover001

    for like 30 dollars more u get backwards compapability and online sooo imo wii mini is a fail

    • Hybrilynx

      you dont get n64, nes, snes, club nintendo free ware games, gamecubes, zelda/metroid patches, overall online stuff like metroid prime corruption friend vouchers, performance updates, wii browser games (im sure they would suck anyway since i didnt make any), nintendo channel, all those other channels, im sure theres more, but pretty much you get the point. personally i would have thought this was like a $60 console or something. the plastic even looks cheap. not to mention, this looks like it didnt even cost anything to make. i mean the disk doesnt slide out or even has lights in the thing, it literally looks like a free piece of hardware for extra cash from anyone who didnt realize soon enough, it didnt go online or play gamecube games.

      most importantly though, it came after the wii u. they should have sold this a year ago.

    • Marty

      well seeing how nintendo removed gamecube compatibility with the family Wii in 2010, I hope you mean the virtual console.

  • Hybrilynx

    wow someone actually bought one.

  • http://twitter.com/Jdub08874679 Jdub

    what the heck? I had never even heard about this until just now. Its like a wide gamecube

    • https://twitter.com/AceOfBlades247 AceOfTrolling(Was:AceOfBlades)

      Well, in a nutshell it’s a mini degraded Wii only selling in Canada and doesn’t support Wifi. 100 USD

    • http://twitter.com/Jdub08874679 Jdub

      no wifi? worthless to me

  • http://twitter.com/AyaneKimura ♡AуaηєღKɪmυяa♡

    Pretty sure Nintendo only made this to make up for the loss they’re getting with the WiiU

    • 64supermarioreturns

      I’mma gonna have to disagree with you on that one, for starters its only in Canada, second how would they approve the Wii Mini in such a short amount of time if the Wii U was indeed selling at a loss, since you know, its been out for not even a month, finally the Wii U might not be doing as well as Nintendo hoped at first, but by no means is it not doing well.

    • 64supermarioreturns

      whoops, remove “selling a loss” with *selling poorly.

      Most systems sell at a loss, so that would be silly to get my wording wrong.

    • https://twitter.com/AceOfBlades247 AceOfTrolling(Was:AceOfBlades)

      Get a Disqus account you can make edit to your comments.

    • Hybrilynx

      the wii u’s not selling well? personally if i had enough money, i would have just got it day soon after release. but since im currently not well with money, im just waiting until the right time to get one. but im not not going to get one. i dont know why people wouldnt want one. unless, just like the dsi vs 3ds, the older version had some better software. saying that, i mean unless the wii u cant send people emails or pictures, or do anything useful besides games, i dont see why people wouldnt want it.

    • Josh

      Exactly. I’m broke too! I want a Wii U so much.

    • storabajskorven

      The WiiU is selling well, but at a loss.

    • SandyR

      If a first party game is sold with a U, (i.e. NSMBU) then they make a profit.

  • Wii mini looks funny

    gamecube V2 :p

    • Beat

      Except no gamecube controllers…. -_-

  • Bob

    IF I were to get one, I would just think of it as a special edition Wii Remote Nunchuck set that costs an extra $40 more.
    And comes with a free Wii.

    • https://twitter.com/AceOfBlades247 AceOfTrolling(Was:AceOfBlades)

      *Free Degraded Wii

    • Bob

      I think you mean Downgraded. Degraded doesn’t mean what you think it means.

    • Omarsonic9

      no

    • JJFad

      Yeah, it would be cool to have a matching set for my unopened red Mario anniversary system

  • http://www.facebook.com/glen.clark.56 Glen Clark

    this is your blog, no need to justify anything you put on here.

    • Hybrilynx

      in addition to that, comments belongs to the people. yerp.

  • torpedofin

    If something like this came out for the PS3 I’d buy it ’cause I wanna play MGS4 but not have to buy a whole system for it. I imagine the same idea would go over with people who wanna play the 1st party exclusives but can’t justify buying a whole console for just a few games.

  • BellaKazza

    Oh! Man! That Wii is so sexy! I love it! And it’s a top loader! Why can’t Nintendo make more cherry red consoles! I would have LOVED a red and black Wii U!

  • rom

    wish it came in blue.

  • Diamond Ammo

    or…OR you could buy the ouya which isn’t an obsolete system AND now that android has console quality games like real racing 3,gta vice city and modern combat 4 it would be far better

    • iOSGamesSuck

      Is the Ouya even out yet? No. No it isn’t.
      Modern Combat 4? Seriously? That crapware iOS game knockoff? Please. Go play with your silly phones while we big boys play real games.

    • Diamond Ammo

      have you even PLAYED mc4 yet idiot? It’s far better than the other ones, knockoff? Your calling every other game that isn’t call of duty a knockoff like battlefield 3(a modern shooter) medal of honor( a modern shooter)

    • Lololol

      Nah, he’s right. iOS games are crap.

    • Diamond Ammo

      stfu and look for games other than angry birds

    • Lololol

      Or…I could play REAL games on REAL game systems. Persona 4 Golden, Pokemon White 2, Mario, Zelda, Mario Kart, the list goes on and on.
      You can keep your Angry Birds and generic mobile shooter 4. Us gamers will play some REAL games.

    • Diamond Ammo

      real racing 3,modern combat 4,black ops zombies, minecraft, nova 3, gta vice city, gta 3, dead trigger,jet car stunts, final fantasy 3,max payne, 9mm, order and chaos online, dead space,fifa, reckless racing 2,need for speed most wanted,need for speed shift, nba 2k13, are all real games you little retard

      “generic”? Aren’t all fps games that take place in the same time zone the same anyways? And I just bought it for my nexus 7 and the multiplayer is amazing and so is the campaign(bad voice acting, but the missions themselves are fun)

      you don’;t even own a up to date ios or android device to even try these games so stfu, I played the wii, wii u, ps3,xbox 360, ps vita, 3ds, ds psp and android and ios is getting really close to ps3/xbox 360 quality( again, real racing 3 as an example)

    • sawada

      Modern Combat 4 look graphically good for an ios game. But no physical button totally kill it for me. Maybe I will buy it on Ouya..

    • BellaKazza

      Medal of Honor has been around longer then Call of Duty! MC4 is a cheap knock-off. Troll!

    • BellaKazza

      The Ouya which has crappy cellphone and tablet games, give me a break. Android has crap quality games, no where near console quality.
      Modern Combat 4 (which I have played) by the way, is a very crappy rip off of a console game (Modern Warfare).
      Wii games are better then the crap on your stupid cellphones.

    • RockinCellist

      My GameBoy Advance is better than the crap on said stupid cellphones.
      Because, you know, it has actual games. And good games at that. Classics.

    • Jairo

      b-but… im actually looking forward to the Ouya D:>

    • BellaKazza

      The Ouya has potential, I don’t hate it because it IS going to be a system centered around games, but if it does not have Ouya spesific games (like games that use the Ouya’s controller) then it will really just be a home console cellphone game player.

    • Josh

      How about we all just get along and say that both are fine. A true gamer should be able to play and appreciate all formats.

  • Mseevers95

    I hate it but it makes sense.
    By cutting the cost of production the can keep the Wii going in the background for a few years before finally killing it.
    Only problem is they completely cut the internet from it, which means no Netflix (which is my main use for my wii since the disc drive broke), and also no eShop.
    I understand cutting the gamecube compatibility though, since most of those titles will be released on the WiiU eShop in the future.

  • Mseevers95

    I would get it just for the red wiimote and nunchuck.

  • Billy001VAN

    a new normal wii is only 139.99
    so whats the point of this

  • swingers club guy

    no wifi just get a wired net adaptor and no sd card reader again use internal memory and or a usb drive this thing makes a lot of sense it could have been a cheaper version of wii if released earlier i love the whole wii meets gamecubeness

  • http://www.nintendoworlds.com/members/turbopikachu.22921/ TurboPikachu

    It’s a real shame this wasn’t the Wii’s original design… It looks very NES/SNES-like. I love it~
    ;-;

    • BellaKazza

      Why didn’t they make the Wii U look like this??

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3TQXCBRGMXMBPY7GVATXIOBGKM Jonn Mcnally

    The power brick, sensor bar, and controllers cost more than the console.

  • icyparks

    This was only released in Canada mainly because of the fact that internet is extremely expensive there. Almost all Canadian internet providers have a data cap and large fees if over used.

  • DEVIN

    its a freakin wii-gamecube

  • Beat

    I kinda feel like anyone who wants a wii already has one, and Nintendo just needs to focus on WiiU instead of staying with the previous generation. They need to make the WiiU feel more next gen and not just like “oh look it’s a HD Wii”

    • Josh

      I’m not replying to your comment. I’m replying to the fact you are an obvious TWEWY fan (with your avatar and name) You are officially AWESOME.

  • uh20

    the ooya of nintendo
    （｀ー´）

    since i already own the original wii (and you can get an old one for cheeper anyways) i dont find a reason for the mini, other than that its cute looking, or ah, something

  • JANGO

    Why would nintendo sell a useless system? Grand Maff tarken: They are wasting money.

    • BellaKazza

      Not useless, you can play Wii games.

    • JANGO

      Ya but no wifi, no GameCube games, cheap plastic. Onlything I like about it is that it looks like a n-64, nes and SNES. Witch is awesome

    • Josh

      It’s for people who just want to play Wii games, nothing more.

    • Pokemon Trainer Gold

      N64* Wi-Fi* Only thing* Which* and also you can add a period at the end.

    • JANGO

      Just because I forgot a period, did not put – in wi-if and spelled one word wrong dose not mean that u spell me that. I’m not at school. I’m not doing a paper I’m Typing on the Internet for a stupid wii. If it was something important I would notice.

  • Hubi13

    I still heard about it’s release in Canada only ..
    Isn’t Nintendo going to release it also in so called “third world” countries? That would perfectly make sense to me and i guess that would bring in a lot of cash to Nintendo. I’m thinking of India, Indonesia, some countries in latin-america, etc. well, those countries with tons of kids. The price as the major factor and none-Internet-ability wouldn’t matter much either. Does anyone know more about this, or how these markets are being exploited (hope that is the word, i mean it in a positive/business way, sorry English isn’t my mother tongue;)

    • Josh

      First off, perfect English. Second, they don’t release that stuff over there because video games and such are no where NEARLY as popular as they are in places like America.

  • icedude545

    a wii descuised as a gamecube y u no play gc games :p

  • dsully11

    Pointless…

  • ME4Twaffle

    Dear god. Why did I just get so excited that the lid flips open? :S

  • I am Error

    You can still connect the LAN adapter on the USB port behind to play online <_<

  • asapisaiah

    THIS is exactly what I’ve wanted for years but Nintendo decided to release it in Canada exclusively. (Also, I basically freaked out when I saw that it’s an open tray and not a slide-out disc system.)

  • http://twitter.com/Luigi755 Luigi755cp

    Lulz It reminds me to the Gamecube, oh good times…