Editor's note: Erik argues that the Wii Remote's less-than-1:1 accuracy is the reason for its mainstream success, and a necessary stepping stone on the way to Sony's Move and Microsoft's Natal.

The author is a practicing lawyer and has been playing videogames ever since he could hold a gameboy; obsessed with all things Dark Souls. The Nintendo Wii was a revolutionary console, that changed ...

Innovative motion controls and accessible design made the Nintendo Wii one of the most popular consoles of all time.

Leaked internal emails from Nintendo have been published showing mockup images of the controller for the original Wii. Kotaku earlier reported on the leak. The emails are from around 2005, the year ...

We've seen other Wii prototypes, but nothing connecting the two consoles like this. Over the weekend, a Japanese auction site revealed an incredibly rare version of Nintendo's Wii remote: one that was ...

is so immersive that games are getting a bit out of hand, literally. Dozens of reports of overzealous gamers damaging TV's, stereos, walls, and innocent bystanders with flying remotes have been ...

The Nintendo "gigaleak" from 2020 is apparently the gift that keeps on giving, and now early prototypes and renders for the Wii Remote have emerged online. The designs were tweeted by game developer ...

Ever since Jonathan first laid his eyes on level 1-1 in Super Mario Bros., he has been hooked on all things video games. A self-proclaimed Nintendo nerd, Jonathan has owned every single Nintendo ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Perhaps the most exciting improvement in this release is touchscreen ...

Over the weekend, an old Wiimote controller was sold at auction in Japan for 74,000 yen (approximately $660). Why so much? The device wasn’t just any old Wiimote, but one of the prototypes Nintendo ...