Here's my random Wii fact:

Metroid Prime on Gamecube had notorious elevator crashes. But if you pop the gamecube disc in a Wii, voila, no crashes.
Dunno why this is, but it saved me a lot of headaches upon my many, many replays of my favorite game at the time.

Gifting games to friends needs to return on consoles! I'd love to surprise others with some random game, or be surprised by some random game a friend sent. It's such a cool feature that should've remained and been built up from the Wii shop.

you can get a green wii if you eat your asparagus

the reason just dance kept releasing to the wii for so long is because some hospitals use wii for physical therapy! so they wanted to let patients work out with new songs even past the wii's original life cycle.

Another obscure fact: don’t put a folded piece of paper onto the Wii’s disc drive.

Interesting fact regarding the WiiWare size restrictions, Telltale Games' Tales of Monkey Island has a tavern named Club 41, so named because in the first episode they wanted to include a puzzle inside of it but couldn't do so within the 40MB size limit.

Another fun fact, did you know there are actually licensed Wii games that utilize USB loading? Nowadays we all use it with homebrew, but there were actually a few Japan-exclusive Dragon Quest games on the Wii! Since they’re MMORPGs, it’s so big that those games can’t even fit on a single disc! So as a clever solution, the game discs really only act as an installer and the actual game runs on an included USB drive bundled with every copy!

Had no idea the Wii Sports “ASS” meme was genuinely just how the game exists in German. That's crazy 😂

13:32 To add on to this, only very specific model revisions can play DVDs. To make a long story short, DVD support was cut very late into the Wii's development and was even patched out in quiet hardware revisions of the RVL-001 (the launch model of the Wii). Future remodels, like the Family Edition and Wii mini, straight-up can't play DVDs - Homebrew app installed or otherwise.

Speaking about Kirby's Epic Yarn localization, a fun fact Is that it was the first game to have a spanish dub made for Latin America, for the narrator, but for some reason, they got an argentinian guy who wasn't hiding at all his argentinian accent like most dubs from that country do, since Is one of the least "neutral" accents of the region. It's odd but very unique and funny in retrospective, like getting a scottish guy to narrate or something.

15:09 that shape being a recurring design element for the Wii was always something I subconsciously noticed but never fully recognized

Only Wii consoles made before 2008 will play DVD movies, as Nintendo removed the ability for the disc drive to read them at all due to people using burnt discs on the Wii. Disc drives manufactured in 2008 and later are physically incapable of reading these discs at all!

Also interesting technical trivia: The PlayStation Move controller is basically the Wii in reverse. On the Wii, the camera in the Wiimote watches the two infrared dots on the sensor bar and uses their relative size/intensity, position and proximity to one another to calculate the Wiimote's position in 3D space relative to the sensor bar (that's why the Wii Motion Plus was necessary for some games).

The PlayStation Move system  takes the camera out of the controller and puts it on top of the television. The controllers take the roll of the sensor bar, as the camera monitors the position and size of the orb on top of each controller to calculate its position in 3D space relative to the camera.

1:30 Kinda related, but the Wii U gamepad also has a sensor bar built in to the top so you can point the Wiimote at the gamepad when in Wii mode

One a lot of people don't know about is the existence of the Wii Mini. No internet, SD card, gamecube/memory card ports, or USB. Only a disc drive (without gamecube support), and the ports on the back for sensorbar/power/AV.

My Wii fun fact. The best version of Final Fantasy VI for a long time was the Wii virtual console, which basically had the Gameboy Advance Translation. But with the original color and sound intact. Now the Pixel Remaster would probably considered the best. Jon here of course will probably still champion the Wii VC version as definitive

One thing: The DVD compatibility only works for the very first version of the console. They fixed it firmware-wise with later versions because people were using DVDs to run pirated games.

Fast Racing League shown in the menu! Shin'en delivering that 60fps fast racing action since the Wii.

20:36 Ok I lol'd in real life on that one. Was NOT expecting that.

This is bar none my favorite video to come from this channel. Legit knew so few of these!