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A Mii is a free-form digital avatar used in Nintendo's Wii, Wii U, and Nintendo 3DS gaming consoles. The Mii concept allows users to develop a likeness (or a caricature) of themselves, other people, or invented characters. After creating a Mii using the Mii Channel on a Wii or the Mii Maker application on a Nintendo 3DS or Wii U, Miis can be used as playable characters in various titles for each of the named consoles. The word "Mii" is often thought to be a portmanteau of "Wii" and "me". In an investor's meeting in October 2015, Nintendo revealed their first mobile app (from their partnership with DeNA) ''Miitomo'', which will dominantly feature official Mii characters appearing on a non-Nintendo device for the first time. == History == Nintendo's first public debut of free-form personal avatar software was at the Game Developers Conference in 1997, during the Nintendo 64 era. There, Shigeru Miyamoto said that the personal avatar concept had originally been intended as a Famicom game, where a user could draw a face onto an avatar. Miyamoto commented that the concept could not be turned into a game and the concept was suspended. In 1999, the 64DD (a disk drive peripheral for the N64), was launched in Japan. Nintendo had produced a short film using the 64DD's ''Mario Artist: Talent Studio''s avatar maker, which includes clothes and a built-in movie editor. The player can optionally utilize the Game Boy Camera and the 64DD's Capture Cassette to put their own face upon the avatar. The next avatar implementation was for the Nintendo e-Reader and GameCube. Along with the Game Boy Camera, it can build an avatar maker. Miyamoto showed another short film they made with this software, which was shown at E3 2002 with the name ''Stage Debut''. This software, renamed to ''Manebito'', was discontinued prior to release.〔 Nintendo designer Yamashita Takayuki attributes his work on ''Talent Studio'' as having been foundational to his eventual work on the Mii, which was necessitated by the development of the game ''Wii Sports''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mii」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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