Nintendo FTWii

[Izuno]

Wheeee!!! I mean Wii!!!!!

http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=12535

Discuss.

[Mazy]

Donno if I'm too keen on the name, but I guess I'll get used to it. But as for meaning and stuff its apparently good and stuff

[spacer]

What the hell is going on with that name?

[Section_Ei8ht]

was just about to post this

Revolution sounded cooler. Dont know what the hell to make of Wii. Sounds too fruity and uncool. But as mazy said, I'll get used to it.

[Gaz]

Wee is english slang/child talk for urine.

Wii is pronouced the same, So its not that great a name sound wise.

Its a cool logo though, and I understand why they went for it. But revolution was slightly better imo, but its still cool.

I'm just not looking forward to the chavs about making inuendos like "My 360 takes a dump on your Wii" or something equally as lame.

None the less, Its still the console that I actually WANT to buy this generation round.

[Izuno]

Xbox360's code name was Xenon.

"Xenon" > "Xbox360", but obviously they wanted to keep "Xbox" in the name and not simply call it "Xbox2" because Sony uses the idea of PS1, PS2, PS3, etc...

The other thing about "360" is that Microsoft wanted a more "mass market" console that was "softer" (i.e. more appealing to non hardcore gamers as the Xbox rep was that it was a core gamer platform). So Xbox360 has more egglike and rounded or soft edges on the actual machine, in the logos, in the operating system, in the Microsoft advertising, in the accessories... But it still has "Xbox" in the name so that immediately reminds of us of its "hardcore" roots. So jam them together for "Xbox360" and you have a mass market console that still appeals to the hardcore.

"Xbox360, hardcore for the grognards, yet accessible to the masses."

Now...someone explain "Wii".

[Tequila]

Terrible, terrible name.

Irrelevant to me purchasing it or not though.

[Ginger Lord]

Odd choice, then again I didn't like GameCube when it was announced.

[sensee]

I like the idea behind the name and the logo looks cool.

The main problem is like Gaz said, that it sounds too much like wee. That's going to cause a lot of immature jokes...

cOuNtEr-$Tr1kE1994: "LoL RoFL wii soundz like WEE"

g4ngst4_50c3nt: "nintendo suxxx!!!!!!!!111111 L0L"

[ReNo]

I really liked Revolution, I really don't like Wii. But I'll still be taking a Wii over a PS3

[Hourences]

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

[General Vivi]

it will be funny to hear people talking about it in regular conversations.

Janet " Hey i got a wii today."

John " Yeah i heard that the wii came out a bit ago. How does the wii

play?"

Janet " I dont know yet but you wanna come over and play on my wii

with me?"

John " Yeah that sounds like fun, my wii broke the other day so

playing with someone elses wii would ease my mind a bit ."

-vivi

[Pericolos0]

people will just be saying "the nintendo" like the old days i hope

[alexroyce]

Horrible name..

Is it "Wee" or "Why"?

[sensee]

it's gonna sound funny when those kids get the wii...