Destineer is a company that creates video game systems, including the Nintendo Wii. The company was founded in 2002 by Peter Tamte, who also served as the company's president until 2011. Destineer develops, publishes, and distributes games for a variety of platforms, including the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and Mac. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii competed with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others. The Wii introduced the Wii Remote controller, which can be used as a handheld pointing device and which detects movement in three dimensions. Another notable feature of the console is WiiConnect24, which enables it to receive messages and updates over the Internet while in standby mode. The Wii's success was credited to a combination of broadened demographic appeal (in particular, its appeal to casual gamers and seniors), strong third-party software support, and innovative hardware features such as the Wii Remote. The console has sold over 100 million units worldwide.