stupidest name ever
Nintendo FTWii
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I'm still gonna call it the Revolution.
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Quote from Thrik
Just look at the article you posted in your first post; there's like two paragraphs of writing from Nintendo explaining it. xD
Yeah I get it...I get the whole branding concept behind it. Right now because it's new it's like hearing "Xbox360" for the first time. But in the coming months we're going to see the brand campaign to support it, just like Microsoft did last year with the 360 between E3 and launch.
"Wii" is somewhat of an abstract reach, like many brands concepts, but for it to be successful they are going to need drive home the concept of the console being a bigger experience than it inherently is...and back it up with great launch content.
Microsoft had the market in the palm of its hands, but because the launch lineup was relatively weak, they sort of blew it outside the hardcore, not to mention the shortages.
I really hope Nintendo follows it's own path and doesn't do this bullshit hardware shortage to drive up hype and their own egos. If it has good new games and lots of casual games or older games to download they could pull of the console comback for the ages.
Every core gamer who's loved Nintendo is wanting it. I really hope they have a good showing at E3 this year.
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Apparently there's going to be around 20 launch titles. methinks this is impressive.
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I like typing Wii.
It's fun.
Wii. Bravo Nintendo, I love you long time.
(now gimme Kid Icarus in Smash Bros Wii or I'll stab you.)
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Sounded real strange to me too on first sight but the more I read it the better it gets.Its kinda cool and all this controverse over their name makes people talk about it
Yea it's true, in one month noone will complain about it anymore. It probably won't make the console more appealing to the 15 - 25 years target group though, but fits the overall family friendly entertainment system kind of theme.
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-"Let's go play some we"
-"What?"
-"You heard right, let's play Super Mario on we"
-"Huh?"
-"W-I-I as in WEEEE"
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Oh please let it go allready. People post thier opinions on the net like they were experts! So tired of it.
"Worst name ever" "They not gonna sell much" "Childish" etc etc
It reminds me of the comicstore guy in simpsons, Its exactly like that.
Nintendo is a huge company and they care less if a Swedish newsreporter or 16yearold forum member says its a bad name, I like it, short and easy to rember, almost every word get shorten on the net today, xbox360 is 360, Playstation Portable is PSP, gamecube is GNC, words like be right back is brb and so on. The one thing that i reacted on is the similarity to the We brand logo
Atleast the W
Anyway, juding a console buy its name is as stupid as choosing a girl by her look.............*cough*
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Perfect name, just perfect.
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/agreed (except all the spelling errors, you can keep those!
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Seriously dumb ass name. Will still buy it though.
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Found these articles via Slashdot:
Why the Wii is good:
http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/games/inde ... id=1467976
Why the Wii is bad:
http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/denv ... .html#more
Why the Wii is wierd:
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what's Wii mean anyways
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did you even read the articles?
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I love the name, I'm buying two.
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Yet another article on the name change. Talks about it being more of a PR stunt than anything. Found it via slashdot: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?si ... 2&from=rss
QuoteDisplay MoreA Wii bit more attention for Nintendo
Aaron McKenna
April 29, 2006 15:25
Branding explains itself, when it's done well. When it's not, consumers simply won't listen to anything else, choosing to mock you rather than take heed.
When Nintendo announced that the perfectly serviceable name of its upcoming console, the "Revolution," is to be changed to "Wii," many on the Internet at first thought it a bit of a joke - one of those pranks that starts in a blog, and ends up having spread to every tech news organization on the globe before it can be stopped.
Apparently not, and now Wii is the new Revolution, more of a whimper than a bang. At first, I too joined in the parade of, shall we say, piddling jokes about the Wii. Sure, it's pronounced "we," but with that extra "i" in there it looks more like "wee." Granted, some are saying "Wii" is controversial mainly in the English-speaking world (the Japanese can't even pronounce it); in France, for instance, it's a homonym for oui (yes).
But the upcoming E3 Expo plays mostly to an English-speaking crowd, even though it's an international event. And even from an international perspective, Nintendo's choice seems a tad stupid: Although the name "Revolution" may be a codename, so was "Tank;" and as in that case, once a name gains currency, why change it? Even if Nintendo had chosen something poetic, smelling of roses or laced with lyricism, the move would be seen as something of a faux pas.
Nintendo explained the name change with more than a modicum of bull about how it highlights the inclusive nature of the console ("we" as in "us"), and also how the logo for the term itself recalls the innovative shape of its new controller...once you remove the "i." Quite apart from the fact that this sounds like a hastily thought up excuse for having done something naughty by a bunch of school kids, there is also the unsettling realization that Nintendo felt it had to explain all this up front in the first place.
Think of "Xbox," "PlayStation," "Dreamcast"...heck, think of "Revolution." Nobody had to explain these terms to anyone, even though technically the Xbox could just as easily have been a funny type of packaging. The moment you have to begin to explain your branding in pedantic detail - which Nintendo is doing through both its spokespeople and its promotional material - you're screwed. If you're going to make your customers stop and think, it should be for a clever reason. Sony, for instance, made waves with its PlayStation Portable advertising, with phrases like, "Your girlfriends white bits here;" and although it made everyone scratch their heads, that was half the point.
On the other hand, this is the point of the discussion where I start to ponder, suppose Nintendo is smarter than all of us. It's just over a week to E3, where Sony fans will be all giddy and running around like they have a Blu-ray chasing their tails. Amid all this, Nintendo announces a name change which is not only interesting, but controversial. You can't not notice it. Essentially, Nintendo steals more than a wee bit of Sony's thunder. Then, post-E3, I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo steals it back again, saying either, "It was all a big laugh..." or, in a more straight-faced manner, "We've listened to customer feedback..." and change the name back to Revolution. All right, so that's one of those "grassy knoll" conspiracy theories, but they'd get double their monies worth and finish up with more attention than what they started with, so I'd do it.
However stupid the name might be, this stupidity is generating a huge amount of PR for a brand that was fading into non-existence prior to now. Tell me, who had the "Revolution" on the top of their go-to list at E3, at this time last week?
As Oscar Wilde wrote in The Picture of Dorian Gray, "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." So, the Nintendo Wii: Crazy on the outside, ultimately self-defeating in the end? Maybe, but we're talking about it now, aren't we?
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Havent been nintendo fan after 8bit nintendo, now it pays back
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I still don't understand why anyone would care what it's called. It's just a name.
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I didn't really like it until i heard the controller called the "Wiimote".. I chuckled.
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