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A Mii (/miː/ MEE) is a customizable avatar used on various Nintendo platforms, particularly their video game consoles. Debuting on the Wii in 2006, they have maintained a presence on future home systems such as the Wii U, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as handhelds such as the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS. Their name is a portmanteau of "Wii" and "me", alluding to them typically being avatars of the players.

The concept of adding customizable characters in Nintendo products was a longtime ambition of game developer Shigeru Miyamoto. He repeatedly petitioned for such avatars' inclusion in consoles from the Famicom to the GameCube, but encountered design limitations and internal pushback from his colleagues. Around October 2005, a team of young Nintendo staffers from Nintendo SPD created a fortune-telling DS title called Otona no Onna no Uranai Techō, which was later reworked as Tomodachi Collection (2009), that included a preliminary three-dimensional character-creation system. The game's director Yoshio Sakamoto demonstrated the prototype to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who further relayed it to Miyamoto. Deeming the prototype avatars exactly what he had always pictured, Miyamoto successfully negotiated to have them reworked as pack-in software for the Wii, where they became known as the Miis.

Miis would go on to appear in numerous games as poster characters, such as in the Wii and Tomodachi Life series, or in others as optional avatars, such as in select Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. entries. Miis elicited a generally positive reception from critics and were a success among players; by 2010, users created a combined total of 160 million avatars.

Miis are virtual user-customizable avatars whose features are manually adjusted to create caricatures of real-world people or fictional characters.^[1] Such features include face shapes, head hair, facial hair, eyes, noses, mouths, and glasses.^{[2] [3]}

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