Wii Play

About Wii Play

Wii Play, known in Japan as Hajimete no Wii (はじめてのWii, Hajimete no Wii? lit. "My First Wii"), is a video game for the Wii console. It is the counterpart to the games Wii Sports, Wii Chess, Wii Music and Wii Fit. It features minigames that use characters from the Mii Channel. Several of the games featured are from E3 2006 demos such as the Duck Hunt-styled shooting demo and Table Tennis, as well as all new minigames. A Wii Remote comes bundled with the game in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, South Africa and North America. It is the best-selling Nintendo-published Wii game, not bundled with the Wii, with 16.15 million copies sold worldwide as of September 30, 2008.

A beta version of the game was first playable alongside Wii Sports at E3 2006. However, the games were not put together in a pack-in; they were separate games meant to be tech demos. A notable example was Shooting, which was also a demo on the Nintendo Fusion Tour, which spectators thought was a full-fledged Duck Hunt sequel. Nintendo had yet to announce that the tech demos would be compiled together into a full game.

The game was revealed together for the first time on the Nintendo World event in New York on September 14, 2006. It is here where Mii Channel functionality was confirmed to be included in the game. Also included updated versions of the games playable at E3, now closer to their finalized form.