Wii Music (Wiiミュージック?) is a free form music game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. The game was released in Japan and North America in October 2008, and in Europe and Australia in the following month. Wii Music is part of both Nintendo's Touch! Generations brand and the Wii series.
Wii Music focuses on creating arrangements of existing songs by controlling the members of an on-screen band. In order to do so, players choose from a wide selection of musical instruments that are played by mimicking the required actions using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. Unlike other music games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero, players are not scored on their performance and are encouraged to experiment with different ways to play various songs. The game has been advertised by Nintendo as a means of "bring the joy and creativity of musicianship to home without expensive music lessons."
Wii Music was one of the original titles announced for the Wii console, first publicly playable at E3 2006, and then later re-introduced in greater detail at E3 2008. Upon release, Wii Music received mixed reviews, gaining aggregate scores of 64.07% and 63% on GameRankings and Metacritic, with common criticism directed at its simple gameplay and its predominantly public domain soundtrack. As such, it is regarded as the black sheep of the Wii Series and is also one of the least commercially successful entries, selling 2.65 million copies worldwide as of March 2009.
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