Nintendo Wii

Konedima · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:30 am Post subject: Nintendo Wii

Seeing as nobody has posted this yet I guess I will. Nintendo has announced the name for the revolution, it is now the "Wii". I'd like to borrow a joke from a gamespy newsletter here and say they must have been on some serious Wiid when they thought of this. There is a little flash movie (and a rather lame attempt, in my opinion, to explain the name) at http://revolution.nintendo.com

icarus · Troll Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Location: Olympia Washington

hmmm the shallow pseudo-innovative console has a shallow pseudo-innovative BS name

Konedima · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:44 am Post subject:

Magnulus · Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 556 Location: Bergen, Norway

I like the new name. It's cute, eye-catching and different.

Nintendo are trying to hook the non-gamers with this, not the hardcores. The hardcores have decided whether to buy it or not a long time ago. A name won't alter their opinions. But mum, dad and the old grandparents need a name that doesn't sound intimidating. In the eighties, they introduced the NES, making it non-threatening by designing it to look like a toy rather than a machine. They're basically doing the same now, but with the name.

Also, it's fun to say. Weeeeee!

EDIT: And those gamers who HAVEN'T decided, will decide when they see the games out for it.

Weeble · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:09 am Post subject:

NOoooOOoOoo!

What kid is going to admit to his friends he has a Wii in his room? Sure, it looks pretty as a logo, but it sounds like wee. *sigh*

icarus · Troll Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Location: Olympia Washington

01d55 · Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 79

Revolution was a perfectly servicable name. They should have kept it.

Konedima · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject:

icarus · Troll Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Location: Olympia Washington

wow the YTMND crowd is going crazy over the wii

http://www.ytmnd.com/list/?search=Wii

warning not all YTMND sumbitions are safe for work (or school of family)

Anticheese · Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 159 Location: New Zealand

Konedima · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:12 am Post subject:

Anticheese · Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 159 Location: New Zealand

Five bucks says that will happen at least three times Smile

Konedima · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:07 am Post subject:

Magnulus · Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 556 Location: Bergen, Norway

Oh no. It's the Invasion Of The Stupid Wii Jokes. Seriously, I'd thought I would escape that here. I was wrong.

It's kind of interesting to observe that name etching itself into the brains of the impressionable internet crowd. Sure, you think it's stupid now, but all this furore is only serving to deeply burrow the name into your skulls, making it nigh on unforgettable. You'll only forget the Wii the day you forget your own names.

We'll see how things go.

Zippo342 · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 39 Location: Germany

You have to admit that Nintendo is rather brave coming out with a name like that. But I think that letting the name out this early before market will help reduce the number of pee jokes by the time it's out as it'll get old quick. Personally, I think the name is dumb, but it does the job they want it to.

In other news, I can't seem to find any reasoning on their part as to why the controllers look like tv remotes. Anyone have any idea? It doesn't make sense to me from an ergonomic standpoint.

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