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Let's start with the history of Nintendo in the headquarters of the Wii and many other popular gaming systems like Nintendo 64 and Game Boy and Nintendo DS.

The following is a list item form of the origin and growth companies spanning 100 years.

-1889 The company founder Fusajiro Yamauchi, great-grandfather of the current president, the company started the production of cards called "Hanafuda" He turned hisSmall business in the Japanese city of Kyoto.

-1902 The original intention was to produce the card game to export to different parts of the world. The game was a success abroad than in his native Japan.

-1975 Nintendo and Mitsubishi Electric develops a kind of video game system and led them into the microprocessor video game machines for the first time.

-1977 Nintendo started to create video game systems for the home user alongMitsubishi.

-1978 Nintendo started selling coin-operated slot machines, with the help of their microprocessors. Then shortly after that a separate department for the production of their vending machines started.

-1980 Nintendo came to America for the first time, they created the office of Nintendo of America Inc.

-1981 Was it crucial year for Nintendo, they developed the coin-operated video game "Donkey Kong" The video game was the hottest,most desirable, video game looked in history.

-1985 Nintendo started selling the first U.S. computer entertainment systems in the Family. The equipment, including the famous Super Mario Bros, Mario with the world's most famous plumber little mustache.

-1987 This year, Nintendo was the first manufacturer to achieve a turnover of more than one million units in the video game.

-1996 Nintendo launched the Nintendo 64 was the first of its kind with a 64 bit Processor. For a home video game, it was inconceivable for many. On the first day alone more than 500,000 units were sold. Later that year, Nintendo delivered some 350,000 units in North America, entire shipment was sold out days in less than three.

-1998 Nintendo Game Boy Color released and many new games The Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, Donkey Kong Country 3, Perfect Dark, etc..

-2001 The GameCube was released, which was the sixth generation of theNintendo Entertainment System (NES).

-2006 On 14 April 2006, the seventh generation of Nintendo "NES" with the appropriate name "Nintendo Revolution." Protests of video game manufacturers and the press, Nintendo changed the name "Wii" The name on the first received much ridicule from many constituents, stating that the name of childishness seemed like a convey feeling. Despite Nintendo responded and said, "Revolution as a name is not ideal, it is long, and in some cultures, it is hard to pronounce. So we wanted something that was short, to the point, easy to pronounce and distinctive. That's how 'Wii,' as a console name, was created. "

Since this is the start of the "Wii" has more units than its competitors (Xbox and PlayStation), is combined. The Financial Times published that the Nintendo Wii had already surpassed the Xbox in terms of sales volume, despite the fact that the Xbox published full year.Nintendo hopes to have sold up to 2009 more than 50 million Wii consoles "by world wide.

Nintendo's target demographic with its "Wii" is much wider than the previous games. You do not have the intention to increase the fight with Sony for the PlayStation 3, but on the amount of people to play games. An extension of range. They have hired Oscar winning advertising giants such as Stephen Gaghan. They spent more than 200 million in advertising alone in 2006. Did it work? You bethas …. Pensioners as old as 103 reports have been playing with the Wii console, aa magazine in the UK has said that the Queen Elizabeth 2 has been playing the Wii.

As the advertising slogan is "Wii would like to play"