What is a Mii?
A Mii is part of the Mii Channel and is basically a personal avatar creator, where you can create a 3D avatar to closely represent your face on a simple caricature. Games such as Wii Sports will feature your Mii and you will play with them onscreen. Miis can also be put on your Wii Remote and taken to another Wii so you can use your Mii at a mate’s house. Miis can also connect online and create a Mii Parade with all your friends. If you have any questions that you would like to add to this FAQ, please e-mail us.
A Mii is a personal character or avatar you can create on the Nintendo Wii®. Even if you don’t have games for the Wii®, though usually it comes with Mii Sports®, you can start building Miis. The Nintendo System gives you access to a variety of building tools so that you can determine height, thickness, facial shape, eye, hair and skin color, and a variety of other things when creating a Mii. They can look like celebrities, or just like you, and your Wii® will hold 100 personally created avatars. Even for little kids, creating Miis is great fun, like using a drawing program, but not requiring much in the way of hand-eye coordination. If you play certain games on the Wii®, your avatars get to play too. For instance in Wii Sports®, your created Miis are the participants. They’ll be your bowlers, golfers, boxers, tennis players and such. If you’re playing any type of team sport like baseball, all the avatars you’ve made show up and play the positions while you control pitching and batti
