The Rise and Fall of the Miis 

Fun fact: Breath Of The Wild's NPC are all built from Mii data.

The Mii’s slow disappearance in games won’t stop me from making MORE MIIS!!!!

I don’t trust people who use the sportsmates instead of Miis.

I think at this point, the Miis are so iconic, they can't scrap them entirely. It's literally impossible.

The kind of japanese doll you referred to being an inspiration of putting miis in a wiimote is called a kokeshi doll and I dont know why i know that

I think Mii won’t have much of a appearance in the remaining switch games. They are probably waiting for the next console to retool Miis, adding clothing and rebrand them for Nintendos’ needs.

What I liked about matt is theres hidden lore in the training rooms You can see old pictures of him at his peak with trophys and such and now hes retired to train the next generation

I love the idea of social miidea

I think the Miis won't die. They will just appear less. There is an easteregg in the Mario Bros Movie with a Mii, Nintendo still knows about them. But I doubt they will get one more game on their own anymore.

Breath of the Wild used Miis as a basis for designing its NPCs so I suppose they were there in spirit

I hope the next Nintendo Console has games that seriously uses Miis.

miitomo was incredible and it’s genuinely a shame it’s gone. i feel very lucky to have experienced it for the short time it was around. the closest thing i can compare it to was that summer in 2016 when everyone was playing pokemon go. every nintendo mobile game since has been alright, but they can only capture a fraction of miitomo’s magic

*TOMODACHI LIFE 2 ON THE SWITCH WILL HAPPEN SOMEDAY, I BELIEVE!*

I remember getting my 3DS for the first time and making Miis of all my family and friends. I love the Miis and I hope they see a comeback on the next Nintendo console

I think Miis will 100% be on the next console. Probably even in an even lesser form than on the Switch, but they’ll be there. My main reason for thinking this is backwards compatibility. I’m positive Switch 2 will be backwards compatible, and since some games use Miis, the next console needs them.

Tomodachi Life will always be the greatest use of Miis ever made. That is pure gold.

Crazy how I just found this video in the wild and mouth went agape when I saw my video footage covering the Mii Makers!! Glad you enjoyed that video of mine and this is a very excellent video!!

Nintendo making Mii's lesser known on the switch feels like neglecting a newborn baby

In the 2000's my older cousin had a Wii and a disks case filled with big Wii titles, but when i used to come to her house i always had her turning on the Wii for me to make Miis of our family members and putting them next to each other while listening to the Mii lobby music, i miss those days

When I initially saw the Miis I was quite disappointed thinking they were too limited, but spend anytime with the Mii maker you will quickly find out that they have so much character and the options that are there are perfect for capturing most peoples appearances in a Mii form.

Thanks to Miitomo, I managed to rip my own Mii characters as models and use them in GMod to make nice pictures featuring them. I also mess around with Unity, making a test platformer featuring my Mii's. Thanks to kaeru:tomo, I can still (kinda) use Miitomo!

The miis must never die...! The sportsmates shall not replace the mii! Also, this one 3ds game "dead heat breakers" had a unique implementation of miis.

3:13 that looks so cursed 💀💀💀

Next Nintendo console needs to let us edit mii's like how they do in Miitopia. The customization in that game for mii's is amazing

Street pass and miiverse should be on the next console

I think the miis, mainly on the wii. for being able to create anyone like family and such was a major staple for people. Like racing your Grandma on Wii Play Cows was a great Memory for a lot of people.

"Somehow, Miis returned" 24:53

**Unstructured Gush Warning** The Miis are GOATed. They were, for a time, almost like my "special interest." I've always been hellbent on being immersed in games whenever I played them (usually accomplished by enthralling gameplay, but if it's my first time playing a game, I want to play it in a quiet place so things like story, characters, music, and environments hit harder), which is hard to accomplish in a loud/bright/noisy place, but Mii Maker found a way to just enthrall me (Mii). I've made (and backed up to my Wii U) about 70 Miis, mostly based on fictional characters I like. I've made a good Mii character or 2 that really pushes the built-in system, and I've made a few... Not great... Miis that still make fun use of the system (SIDE NOTE: If anyone knows how to make good looking red eyes on the Wii and 3DS Mii Makers - Not Tomodachi Life's, the Switch's, or Miitopia's Mii Makers - Let me know). Once I get the time to play more games, read more books, and watch more movies, I'll likely hit the cap of 100 unique Miis based on those new experiences. My 3DS SD Card got corrupted along with all my games and save data, but the Miis stayed because they were part of the 3DS, and being honest: With how much time I put into making and editing it, if I had one thing to choose to salvage, my Mii collection would probably have been it.

Since the next console will probably take a while, I think the big N should finally cave in and just give us a tomodachi on switch. Could be a sequel, a remaster like miitopia, just something. Shame Amiibo probably will be just dust collectors though, skylanders but with amiibo could have sold both the game and amiibo solidly.

I think Miis will disappear from the next console’s games, but will just be an option for Nintendo Online account profile pictures.

Although the 3DS mii maker wasn’t on a TV, I still think it had a great social aspect. My sisters and I would play a game where we both try to make a funny looking mii and then we send them to each other at the same time.

I absolutely loved the idea of being able to load my miis from my wii console onto my wii remote and share them with friends on their wii consoles. The fact that I didn't have any friends with wii consoles didn't stop me from being enthusiastic. 😊

I Hope Nintendo will bring More Games With miis on The next Console

I love miitopia so much, it made me like Miis, when I didn’t care about them before Yeah my characters use a LOT of makeup to look not like miis, but now I use a mii as my profile picture on my switch, and he’s the cutest little guy ever

At least there is a channel called Mii Daily, which keeps the mii spirit alive.

I'd like to think Miitopia is about purgatory. Every Mii has died and went into the afterlife.

such a great creator

They did not forget, they eradicated them. We hardly got one game with the Miis, two if you count Nintendo Switch Sports. It's a freaking shame, the Miis allow so much creative freedom.

I worked a temp gig at an airport for six weeks back in 2014. I brought my 3ds with me everyday, and would have SO many StreetPass hits by the end of the day - it added so much to the Mii minigames

Bloody loved the Miis. Give me Mii or give Mii death.

I hope they return full on in the next console, the traditional ones could be used in Mario and party game while BotW introduced a footprint for "anime-like" Miis that could be used in games where the characters have a more realistic proportions, so you could have the same Mii that could fit on various kinds of games.

This makes me sad for simpler times. I miss playing my wii with friends/family as a kid.

I was playing Miitopia while watching this video!

I loved the Mii Parade channel. I got over 100 great & creative Mii's from the contests, My family loved seeing all of the Mii's in our games.

I will literally sell a kidney to live on Wuhu Island as a Mii

I remember getting a 3ds for my birthday and starting up tomodachi life, making my mii was such a lovely memory. I would do anything to experience it again ❤

I hope that in the future Mii will be relevant characters in Nintendo games and will be included in Super Mario games, as protagonists or even improve the Mii creator to make them more customizable and variable (hair, eyebrows, body size, hight, mouths, eyes, nose, etc.) in many aspects.

I hope that when they move on to the type of console (Wii U-Switch) they will make the Miis the big thing again they were!

Hopefully Nintendo will utilize Miis more for their next console.

Honestly, I wish we could go back to miis and music.

If they don't have Miis on Nintendo's next console, I will flip a whole table

17:44 this sequence is synced to the music

To clarify about the Mii CPU Cheat in Switch Sports: the Mii Makers between the 3DS/Wii U are different from the one on Switch. Customizability options are slight different, and not everything aligns where it once did on the older Mii Maker, mostly being position and alignment based, like angling your eyes or raising your eyebrows. It looks like that for Switch Sports, they decided to do a bit more varied and newer feeling versions of the classic named miis, that would also fit right alongside the mii-ified sportsmates

I honestly feel like there is a timeline for the Mii’s lol. The start being MiiTopia and possibly ends with Switch Sports possibly. Not sure but it is a fun thing to think about with the Mii’s

00:23 I've never seen that in my life!! :O It's great learning this history, thank you

3:51 omg this is such a little kid thought i immediately related to it. i remember having thoughts of a similar vibe as that -- i used to think that in the alaskan bull worm episode of spongebob when he and sandy are running away from it and the environment becomes 3d that if i turned on my spongebob plug-n-play controller at that time then i could control what was happening. was very disappointed that this wasn't the case. ... idk why i felt the need to share but thank u for sharing for real, that touched me on a deep level i wasn't expecting it to lol

Can we pay homage to deca sports. It was like a discount Wii sports but it was still fun as hell

I remember making Mii’s of my entire family and friends lol

I had an old friend who worked on the newer Microsoft avatars and it was almost instant, upon release the whole team who made the assets and rigged the bodies were displaced into other parts of Microsoft. It was such a flop.

I hope there will be a new version with more detailed Miis in the future

bad game idea: wii sports resort but its like a post apocalyptic version of wuhu island

9:46 "It didn't really work well" (shows Mii that's a dead ringer for the person) the nose is slightly off 'cuz there's two shape options that woulda worked better but the rest is spot on

Take a shot every time he says Mii in this video.

I remember getting permanently banned from Miiverse not for posting inappropriate content, but for constantly asking for people to add me into their friend list as an underage user. Today, I'm pretty ashamed of that behavior and understand the intended reasons for the ban but still laughs when thinking about getting banned for asking to people to be their friends. For those who didn't know, you had to be over 13 to be able to send a friend request to a stranger, but could bypass the rule if you had some of his code so that young schoolmates/siblings could be friends)

the wii u and wii had that same feeling that the internet had when it was first introduced. a portal to another world where you can chat to anyone and look at whatever you wanted. like it just felt like magic when i was younger seeing real people's miis from around the world, and they all had something to say

Miitopia was a sequel to the Streetpass quest game (I forgot the name, shows how involved i was). That game was played in small 5 minute chunks at a time. After years, i reached the end and what a feeling of accomplishment. Although, i guess i was super burned out on the concept because i couldn't get into miitopia. The demo was a slog so I never played the full one.

im glad someone finally agrees that the xbox avatars for 360 while very much inspired by the miis have their own charm with clothing and the emotes and are MILES better than the fugly ones for xbox one ugh...

miis were amazing, excellent aditions, something so basic with so much charm, your own avatar is part of the console and games, but if i have to be honest te novelty was over very quickly, yeah i had fun creating miis with my friends on the same tv but was only once, i visited mii channel and download funny miis i found but i stoped doing that very quickly, i only wanted to play, the extra options of the wii didnt matter to me at the end. thats whow life works, something is popular but has to end someday, i dont miss the miis, picking one on a game is still a good bonus, but not something i need

I really do hope they'll add Miis back into more stuff, though I know that nintendo hasn't forgotten them, hell for the mario kart ride at universal they use Miis for the ride tutorial videos, also PLEASE GIVE US ANOTHER TOMODACHI PLEAAAAASSSEEE

It breaks my heart.

It took us a really long time to get to that fall part of the video. Hey Nintendo, there still time to save them!

this video just made me mad that i didn't buy a wii u...

I loved miitomo and was highly upset when the servers shut down. I had so much fun on there.

16:37 Heheh, cutting the Rick Roll right out

I will admit that I have spent way too much time creating miis and appreciating the miis that others have made

Im only just finding out about Wii Sports Resort recently. I guess I thought it was just a re-release or just a few more sports or something? Maybe too busy with other games and life? If I ever see it in stores I'll probably pick it up. I admit some sports look a bit jank, but the world building and free roam interest me a lot. As for the miis, (only about 1/3 through), they seemed dated around the time of Wii U (the wii U bombing didnt help teir reputation) but i am glad they are still here in some form. I'll keep it as my original 2006 Mii as my Nintendo avatar as long as they allow it.

I missed out on Miiverse shenanigans as a kid. Instead me and my friends used and abused Swap Note.

Nintendo land is my childhood, the HOURS spent on it was so fun, i loved it

The weirdest thing for me is that every single NPC in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom is a Mii. No, really. They're all Miis, and you can even inject your own Miis via hacking. So they created an algorithm that could take the generic looking Miis and make them look more detailed. Imagine if they did this for other games, and had them pull from approved player-created Miis. The fact that they could implement their own custom created characters and inject them into any game and have them change to fit that game's art style would have been so unique had Nintendo stuck with it. But instead, it was kept to just two games. Two games where we can't even USE the feature.

13:44 Ohh! That's what that Smash 3DS Mii trailer was referencing, lol Very neat.

My few created mii I had on the 3DS have become my OC avatars in Vrchat as well.

The moment i noticed New Super Luigi U community for the Miiverse segment, I felt a sudden fear. Those who know, know.

I didn't know about the mii cheat code in Switch Sports. I'm excited to go check it out now

Holy Bowser's Castle, that "AKB48+Me" game looks like a gem, I need to check that out now oml

An absolute core memory is when I was playing Wii party board game island with a friend and our friend who had passed away a few years back had her mii pop. In the zombie mini game. As a zombie. We were equal parts horrified, shocked and laughing our asses off. 😭😭😭

best to bring back miis for nintendo.

I’m pretty sure in animal crossing new horizons your character is a mii. It’s got the same arms with the little round ends.

9:46 accurate mii

This whole StreetPass stuff really didn't work for me as I live in the countryside and if I went to the city, why would I take my Nintendo with me... xD i only once got a Streetpass Mii as I met up with someone who too had a 3DS... xD

You can import Miis from the Wii onto the 3DS

18:04 Wii Sports Club was marketed atrociously. I still remember how I played all the past Wii Sports titles with my grandma. One day I was on the Wii U menu and saw the channel. I was like "What is Wii Sports Club? It probably is some sort of community thing but let me just see." To my surprise, it was another full game in the Wii Sports series. We then played all the way through but we almost missed this game completely." The Wii U was a horribly marketed with Wii U making parents think, "it is probably just another extension like Wii Plus. I mean the gamepad is the extension, right? The game was marketed poorly on a poorly-marketed console. It was doomed to fail even though, I thought, the new Training games were really fun (I don't remember them anymore honestly though except my grandma and I enjoyed them a lot). The out-of-touch parents and grandparents were a large part of the original audience for games like Wii Sport and Wii Fit. Nintendo just had the worst marketing at this time.

Hambiirger, Beef boss, burg, yeah, burger mii has lots of names.

I had no idea about Miitomo, and around that time I was still a huge Nintendo fan, maybe it’s failure was just bad marketing rather than Mii’s falling off

this channel is so underrated

Let's hope the absence of Spotpass, Streetpass, cool home menu music, less focus on Mii's is because they had to save as much costs as possible for the Switch since the Wii U failed. I kinda have some trust in Nintendo cooking with the Switch 2, bringing all that stuff back.

Brooo, this video was amazing!

Weird, I never thought much of the Miis as any sort of icon or anything, they were just kind of there...

Nintendo Land was so good man

Switch was a step backwards for the Miis, especially Switch Sports. If you want new Miis, fine; but don't bring new Miis on a console that still uses the old Miis. Also, make Switch Sports actually worth the price.

They are awesome.