User blog comment:Rocketslime 1 1/Wii Mini - The Newest Console Redesign/@comment-3118989-20121128212423/@comment-3448772-20121128224329

Actually I think that it was actually a great for it. It isn't so much a console redesign, as a way to keep the Wii going a bit until the Wii U picks up.

It is kinda interesting. It wasn't made as a new console, but as a way to help people to be able to purchase the Wii, who normal wouldn't be able to, people who probably wouldn't use the removed features.