Wii Sports is a 2006 developed and published by for the . The game was released in North America along with the on November 19, 2006, and was released in Japan, Australia, and Europe the following month. It was included as a with the console in all territories except , making it the first sports game included with the launch of a Nintendo system since for the in 1995. Wii Sports is available on its own as part of the collection of games.
Wii Sports consists of five separate sports games—, , , , and —accessed from the main menu. The games use the motion sensor capabilities of the Wii Remote to control the player's arm and/or the appropriate sports equipment it wields. Boxing utilizes both Wii Remote and Nunchuk gestures to control both of the player's arms. The player moves the remote in a similar manner to how the separate games are played in real life; for example, holding and swinging the Wii Remote like a , , or . Some aspects of the gameplay are computer controlled. In tennis, player movement is controlled by the Wii, while the swinging of the is controlled by the player. Baseball consists of and , with all of the fielding and baserunning handled by the computer. Due to their -based nature, golf and bowling support multiplayer and can be played with just one Wii Remote that can be shared among players.
Two people Wii boxing; the Wii Remote and Nunchuk are used here to control punches.
The in-game characters are taken from the Wii's , which allows the user to create a (a customized ) that can be imported into games that support the feature. Wii Sports is the first Wii title to use this feature. Miis saved on the Wii will appear in the crowd during bowling games and as members of human-controlled teams in . The in the game were also created using the Mii Channel toolset. Miis created on one Wii can be transferred onto the of a for use on another Wii with different save data.
