The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii competed with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others. , the Wii leads its generation over PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in worldwide sales, with more than 101million units sold; in December 2009, the console broke the sales record for a single month in the United States.

The Wii introduced the Wii Remote controller, which can be used as a handheld pointing device and which detects movement in three dimensions. Another notable feature of the console is the now defunct WiiConnect24, which enabled it to receive messages and updates over the Internet while in standby mode. Like other seventh-generation consoles, it features a game download service, called "Virtual Console", which features emulated games from past systems.

It succeeded the GameCube, and early models are fully backward-compatible with all GameCube games and most accessories. Nintendo first spoke of the console at the E3 2004 press conference and later unveiled it at E3 2005. Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata revealed a prototype of the controller at the September 2005 Tokyo Game Show. At E3 2006, the console won the first of several awards. By December 8, 2006, it had completed its launch in the four key markets.

Answer this series of questions:

1. What controller did the Wii introduce?
2. What game consule did the Wii succeed?
3. What was the date for the Release of the Wii?
4. How manu unit's world wide has it sold?
5. What company produces the Wii?
6. and when did they first speak about the consule?
7. What generation consule is the Wii?
8. What other two notable seventh generation consules did it compete with?
9. What is the name of the feature that allows you to download and emulate games from past systems?
10. What did the Wii Connect24 allow people to do?
11. When was the prototype of the Wii introduced?
1. the Wii Remote controller
2. the GameCube
3. November 19, 2006
4. more than 101million units sold
5. Nintendo
6. at the E3 2004
7. seventh-generation console
8. PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
9. Virtual Console
10. it enabled it to receive messages and updates over the Internet while in standby mode
11. Iwata revealed a prototype of the controller in September 2005