Don’t know what exactly made the previous Wii not as family friendly.

Should’ve engraved “live. laugh. Love.” On all family edition wiis

My childhood Wii was a family edition and I found out when my friend let me borrow his copy of Mario Sunshine, it was a really disappointing day

My aunt was super disappointed when netflix stopped supporting the Wii. She had been using her family Wii as a Netflix box for years

The Wii Mini ultmately makes more sense because the venn diagram of people who owned a Wii but never touched a Gamecube game and people who owned a Wii but never connected it to the internet would practically have been a circle.

The thing that baffles me the most is how this Wii, which was advertised as the "Family Edition", only came with 1 WII REMOTE? Honestly it wouldn't've mattered if they removed the GC compatibility as long as it came with at least 4 Wii Remotes so a family of 4 could all play on the Wii together out of the box, instead of spending extra for 3 extra Wii remotes. If Nintendo had done that, I feel like this variation would've actually seen some sales.

Glad to see he’s NOT talking about the Wii Mini this time around!

Fun fact: They did NOT sell these types of Wiis in Japan whatsoever. They just did not introduce this one (RVL-101) there, so no Japanese Wiis ever have a chance of being GameCube-portless. Also, White and Black Wiis can be RVL-001 (GC compatible) or RVL-101 (not GC compatible). You can tell just by the logo orientation, but you have to be careful if you're in the market for a Wii. A Red Wii will NEVER be GC-portless as it was only ever sold before they started introducing the Family Edition-style Wii, and the color is exclusive to 001. So at least if you buy a red Wii you will easily know what you're getting.

Wow remember when a Nintendo console had the capability to stream Netflix?! What a nostalgia trip

When I was a kid my cousins ‘upgraded’ their normal wii to one of these (I have literally no idea why they would do that) and gave us their original wii. I was thrilled, but I bet they weren’t! Just a fun story about my rich relatives being not so smart with their money and me getting a free wii out of it.

As a Canadian I can confirm that we do in fact have a lot of cabins and cottages

gift this to an orphan and theyll be complete again

I apreciate Scott's Stash a lot. I love your videos so much and while a big part of that are your great scripts and edition, your natural charisma and yapping ability is amazing and I'm so thankful of getting these frequent smaller videos of you talking about whatever you want. The recent Mario Party video was great and I'm definetely going to enjoy this one too

Thought he was flipping it off in the thumbnail at first, and didn’t even question it.

The Wii Mini being a "cabin wii" here in Canada is so true. My grandparents have a Wii and they used to live at a trailer camp during the summer in the 2000s and 2010s, and they'd always bring their Wii with them. They thought it annoying having to pack it with them so they got a Wii Mini and kept it there.

My friend shared a Wii with his brother and his brother sold the old Wii to get this "new" version. My friend was obviously pissed because he lost all of his saves and the GC functionality for zero benefit.

Grandma and Grandpa will be so disappointed when they find out that their copy of Super Smash Bros Melee does not run on this.

Thank god, the last wii was full Violence in movies and sex on tv

The revision nobody asked for

In Brazil we only "officially" got this version of the Wii, but the exact bundle was awesome, a black Wii, with 2 Remote plus, Wii Sports, Resort and Strikers Charged, for a relatively small price. In that regard cost wise the revision wasn't that bad.

Fun fact: you can hack the Wii Family Edition and make it read GC games. Granted, you’ll have a controller issue but it can boot games.

I recently found this version of the Wii out on the streets with 2 controllers and 2 games. Everything still works but the games barely had any progress made on them. I could easily tell that this was a family Wii

I have this AWFUL memory of being on my (then) girlfriend's house because she borrowed a black wii from her brother and she asked me if I could hack it so she could play gamecube games since she had one as a kid. I spent like 4 hours reading through guides and downloading iso files for all the games she wanted, even brought one of my old GC controllers to give her... just to touch the damn wii and seeing that it didn't had the gamecube controller ports.

Apparently “family” means “objectively worse in every way” in Nintendo’s eyes. I’ll keep that in mind.

I would really like to see the extent of Scott's collection, because he really pulls out shit I've never even heard of and they're always CIB.

I know you can get it to play GameCube isos from USB using homebrew. It was kinda stupid that Nintendo simply put a disc drive in that didn't support GameCube. The rest of the hardware was still fully capable.

I used to think the sideways Wii was so cool and be sad I didn't have it, but now I'm happy I can actually play GC games.

AMD bought out ATI in 2006, they then started phasing out the ATI name for their graphics chips. The previously known "ATI Radeon" graphics chips would be phased to simply, "Radeon" or "AMD Radeon." That was in late 2010, while the Wii Family Edition was released in late 2011. Nintendo had a WHOLE year to change the molds to have the AMD logo on it, but they either were too lazy, production had already started, or the chip was still technically made by ATI, and not AMD, probably the latter

Families hate Gamecube.

My house got robbed as a kid and they took the wii and all the games. My parents got me a new one and it’s was this bad boy. Fun fact, this model has better picture quality than the original

5:58 this is just my guess but I think the reason why this is it's because with the family edition I've seen some models where it's basically an original model Wii motherboard without the GameCube ports installed. In fact where the GameCube ports go is a separate piece & if you remove it On some models you can see the GameCube port holes. Even looking at the mother board you can see where the ports were going to go. The reason why it can't play GameCube games is because of the disc drive itself. Not the actual console. I imagine you could probably add the ports to the console & swap out the disc drive with one that is GameCube compatible. It should work & make it a backwards compatible family edition Wii.

I wanted that green wii so goddamn bad

That Wii is what I like to call “scooby-doo fruit-snack blue)

This was a part of the massive revision massacre of 2009-2011

hell yeah, watching netflix in 480i

Blue wii remote is gorgeous though

8:06 aka weezer blue

This Wii in its blue colour was my childhood!!! Except mine came with a copy of mario and sonic at the London 2012 Olympic games

I remember the Wii Family Edition was sold at Costcos, was pretty cheap like only $100 for each system and came with two games Wii Sports and Resorts! It’s was a good redesign for newcomers to the Wii, especially people in the fitness industry, unlike the Wii Mini which came out way too late and you can’t even stream video like Netflix nor KZfaq, which at that time, kids were using their Wii to watch Netflix in the early 2010s!

5:44 I think the blue one originally came out with Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, and I always assumed it was because Sonic was blue but no I guess it was planned all along and they probably thought "well Sonic is blue, we're making blue Wiis now why not"

I had no idea there was a Wii mini as a kid until one day I noticed one just sitting in the redbox at my walmart.

Love the Wii videos, what a peak gaming era

Something about the IO being horizontal on the Wii Family Edition bothers me. From what I understand, if you swap out the disc drive on the Family Edition for an original Wii drive, it will read GameCube discs no problem. You’ll just lack the means of plugging in a controller.

6:20 Oh my god, Scott's hand is floating. I knew he was cursed

I’m glad I still have my original Wii because a lot of the value I get from it stems from the GameCube compatibility

3:33 The finger slide lining up with the sound effect in the song is perfect lmao

I had the Wii family edition as a kid and it butterfly effected me from being a normal 6 year old, to knowing that Doki Doki Panic was mario 2, to being the strange man I am today.

Thanks for giving me an excuse to stay up 11 more minutes

I got this for black friday at walmart for 99$ in 2011. It was a great deal with cheap black friday games. It still holds up today. Also thank you Scott for being the only channel that acknowledges that Giest exsisted.

I remember feeling ripped off that my Wii didnt come with a stand and standing it up vertically anyways just so it would look more correct.

i think this is the 46th time scott has talked about console revisions lol

Im wondering if the PS5 PRO is also going to look like an ice cream sandwich. That is what the PS5 looks like right now.

6:00 How have I never realized the small disc was a gamecuve disc? I literally have been playing on a wii since I was a kid, I've seen the disc channel millions of times, and I never once thought about the seconds smaller disc until now.

8:04 is when all the people who live in North Carolina rather laughed or got mad

This is truly one of the Wiis of all time

Scotts Stash vids to listen to while falling asleep keep me sane

Thanks! I finally know why some of my friend's WIIs had no gamecube ports

I love my family edition Wii, it gave me so many great childhood memories and I had no idea it was different from the original model until this year.

THE GAMECUBE ISN'T FAMILY FRIENDLY!!!

3:50 I just call that the "No Gamecube for you edition" specifically for that reason I got it from a Walmart thinking it was limited edition all those years ago 💀

5:16 Scott begins casually removing a piece of tape from the box.

It’s nice to see an upload on the WII !

Geist is a fantastic game. I love it so much. The multiplayer slaps so hard.

Yeah, this was a weird one. It's basically an early prototype version of the Wii Mini, but with the same form factor (sans color) as the original. But yet not as stripped as the Mini. Sort of like a "middle ground" since it still had internet compatibility and an SD card slot. But as you noted: People who complained about that already had a full-featured Wii, lol! So it was kind of like something for those who didn't care about the loss of Gamecube stuff for any reason. Like maybe they still had a Gamecube or didn't care about the games that had Gamecube features. This unfortunately did lead to some confusion though as some thought it "did" have Gamecube compatibility until they got a disappointing surprise. Some people were able to return it in time, but others found out too late and the return window closed. That's kind of an issue with console revisions compared to handheld ones because with handhelds you were usually getting an upgrade of some kind with a few exceptions while with consoles the aim is generally to just make it cheaper by removing stuff from it. Neither ideas are bad in themselves, but it's that lack of model revision consistency that didn't help matters.

I have this version of the Wii. I HAD to have it because it's blue...that was my sole reason for buying it, otherwise, my siblings and I already had a launch model Wii.... I still have my blue Wii, still with the box and all of the inner-fixings. I actually used it a lot when I went off to college, left our family Wii at home, and I used it a lot until the Wii U came out a year or two later. I've considered modding it and getting some use out of it, it's basically been in the box for 12 years since the Wii U released, but my Wii U and its internal vWii are modded, so it doesn't even make that much sense to put the work into doing the Wii itself as well. I did fire it up a few months ago just to make sure it still works, though - since I think Wii's have capacitor issues if they aren't used for some time, seemed to be working fine. I thought about selling it at one point, but they really aren't worth much at all - even CIB.... I think the receipt is still in the box as well - which I believe I only paid like $90-$100 for it. This particular version in North America was a Black Friday/Holiday timeframe release for that discounted price. I think after that and for quite a while, they sold the blue Wii as a Skylanders bundle, you could only get them as stand-alone consoles without any sort of a pack-in for a really short amount of time. But even with that being the case, nobody wants them...they aren't worth a darn to anybody except those of us who have them for no logical reason. 🤣

the family edition confirms that the wii has parents

I went out of my way to get one of these just so I can try to solder the gamecube ports back on. Thing is, all the necessary traces and contact points are still there on the motherboard, so theoretically it could work.

Yeah i DO want you to play GEIST

5:27 don’t be silly Scott, that’s chartreuse.

The best nintendo advertising channel

See i had a family edition wii as a kid, but my step brother had a backwards compatible model but his broke and he replaced it with one of these blue family edition wiis and he actually broke the top of the wii trying to get to the GameCube slots, interestingly enough the shell actually still has the Cutouts they just didn't put anything in the slots and glued the lid shut lol

Awesome job, scoot!! Please review families next!!

i had this wii when i was younger, i loved it back then because i was 7 years old and loved nintendo, and i had no problems with it. but when i got older and learned about the wii with gamecube support.. yeah i wish my parents got me that one. but wii is wii and i like wii so it’s not a problem

One thing to note is that the original Wiis could play DVDs using homebrew because the drive supported it, but since the Family Edition this is no longer possible.

I like to think Scott has a shower thought and the second he gets out he Gets the camera

Happy this video came out the day after I bought a Wii mini

I'm really starting to like these dank pods style videos

we had one of these redesigns when i was a kid, and my brother uncrewed it and took it apart certain that there was gamecube ports hidden under the plastic 😭😭 it still worked after that somehow

That's my definitive version of the SNES i don't understand the hate for it

Next video: The Gamecube component cables? (Please). And others options: N64 Games on 3DS, GBA and DS Games dual releases.

I still have a Wii my family bought in 2011. It was a black Wii of the original model (the one with GameCube ports). Sadly, at some point that I think was during the 2020s, its disc drive stopped reading game discs. Fortunately, it still boots up and there are three Virtual Console games on it (Zelda 1, Mario 1, and Earthworm Jim).

Scott the Woz. Keeping Nintendo relevant since 2012.

Name unclear: I expected this console to have a family. Now I’m filing for divorce from this bachelor.

This is the most system a system has ever systemed

I use a Wii family edition so for a majority of my life I wondered why there was a small dark blue disc on the disc channel screen

My "favourite" part of this is that it still only has one set of controls and multiple party games. Somewhere along the line, Nintendo forgot what a family looks like.

Very interesting edition!

The Wii Family Edition can play Game Cube games as the hardware is still in there, but you need to use homebrew to play from an SD card or USB drive

6:46 We all don't have cabins in Canada, Scott. We have igloos. It's called research.

Finally someone acknowledges that the Wii mini isn't good, but it IS kinda cute.

As a Canadian who’s family had a cabin I saw many other cabins have Wii minis inside

Our family's wii was a Family Edition, which I'm pretty sure my dad just bought because it had "Family Edition" in the title. Just recently homebrewed it, same process as a normal wii. It was bundled with a Wii Sports/Resort bundle disc, with both games on one disc (which seems to be somewhat rare in America?), despite this video featuring one not bundled with a game, so I guess it wasn't all that bad. I don't know, this is probably my nostalgia saying "okay it's a solid wii, it's not THAT bad".

I have the original model Wii and I choose that over the Wii Family or Wii Mini. One reason being GameCube support. Of course a jailbroken Wii Family Edition can play GameCube games with Nintendont and the same applies to a Wii Mini but you'd likely have to use a Wii Classic Controller since there's no controller or memory card slots on either the Wii Family or Mini.

Broke my white model back in 09, got this back in 2011, and hated that I couldn’t play GameCube games anymore. Had that exact blue model.

I wanted a black Wii but none of them in store could play GC games so i had to get a white one

I've only ever seen a Family Edition Wii once, at a friend's house years ago. I remember being very confused about why her's was horizontal while mine was vertical, and being jealous because her's was blue and mine was black. Never seen one since.

As someone who got the Wii Family Edition in 2011 back when it was still known as just the "Wii", my disappointment was immeasurable when I think of how many of us kids were tricked.

I’m surprised you didn’t mention that if you take apparent that Wii the holes for the GameCube ports and memory cards are still there but no hardware to support it

i had this wii in the mario and sonic 2012 bundle and tbh i had no idea it was a family edition till i saw the text horizontal many years after

I wish the standard Wii got that blue shell