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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:40 pm    Post subject: The Rev's New Name Reply with quote

Okay, get this. The Revolution's new official name: Nintendo Wii

...pronounced "we."


I actually think it's a rather cool name, in a "dude I was not expecting anything like this" kind of way. Nintendo's just full of suprises.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Initial reaction was "Nintendo is fucking stupid, what the hell!", after a few hours, it's simmered down to "What the fucking hell!". We'll see how a day or two does....
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Reminds me too much of Intel's Viiv (vive), which reminds me too much of failure.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, they should give it a clean, sophisticated name, like Game Boy or Play Station or Dream Cast.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Because Dreamcast, Gamecube, Playstation and Xbox were such better console names 9_9

Have we even had a mainstream one-syllable console yet? Doesn't matter, actually. Personally, I don't care if Nintendo wants to call their system "Nintendo Lad Rape 79C", in fact, I kind of wish they would, just to make a point.

EDIT: Damn you Red, you beat me to it.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ichiban Crush wrote:
Because Dreamcast, Gamecube, Playstation and Xbox were such better console names 9_9


I beat you motherfucker!
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What the hell is this emoticon

9_9

supposed to be? Is that a guy with bags under his eyes? I hate emoticons.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it is the face with the rolling of the eyes all sarcastic like 9_9
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

...I don't see it. It just looks like you're really tired.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

eh, I guess it could be interpetted that way to, because I am.



The sad thing is I saw this months ago. Not trying to express an opinion here, but yeah...
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But see, I wouldn't care if the name was We. Naming it Wii means you have people unsure of how to pronounce it, and if the point is to get it into the home of Joe NonGamer, he's going to feel too stupid asking for something he doesn't know how to pronounce.

Unless this thing gets marketed to motherfucking death, and in the proper places to GET those people who don't game interested, and it's somehow made obvious how to pronounce it.. that's just bad.

Of course I find it funny that people in the UK are going to be going "wee! haha!", but Nintendo's spokesman or whoever had the right idea about Virgin and other companies transcending word meanings. Hopefully they can pull it off.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WEEABOO
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Penis -> Wiiiiiii
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought Revolution was a much better name, personally. I was the same way about the Ultra 64/Nintendo 64 as well.

But in the end, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet...
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kap wrote:
Unless this thing gets marketed to motherfucking death, and in the proper places to GET those people who don't game interested,
if they're fully committed to copying Apple, that's probably the idea here
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jc dracula wrote:
kap wrote:
Unless this thing gets marketed to motherfucking death, and in the proper places to GET those people who don't game interested,
if they're fully committed to copying Apple, that's probably the idea here


Right. Remains to be seen, but I'm betting they do a poor to mediocre job. I'd love to be wrong of course, just don't have much faith.

The last Nintendo ads I can remember were shitty GameCube commercials, and the last one I really remember well was the Legend of Zelda ad from twenty years ago with the manic guy screaming the names of enemies in the game.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kap wrote:
jc dracula wrote:
kap wrote:
Unless this thing gets marketed to motherfucking death, and in the proper places to GET those people who don't game interested,
if they're fully committed to copying Apple, that's probably the idea here


Right. Remains to be seen, but I'm betting they do a poor to mediocre job. I'd love to be wrong of course, just don't have much faith.

The last Nintendo ads I can remember were shitty GameCube commercials, and the last one I really remember well was the Legend of Zelda ad from twenty years ago with the manic guy screaming the names of enemies in the game.
i remember the totally inappropriate yoshi's island commercial that stole the exploding stomach gag from python's meaning of life
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

9_9

the giant sleep eyes say this topic is boring. All three current systems have shitty names. It's ok. If you are embarrased by the name of a video game system, and not the rest of video games, you need to rethink your priorities.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's about parents and other people who aren't gamers (yet) being able to pronounce the thing in order to walk into a brick and mortar and buy it, not being embarrassed by it's pronunciation.

Either way, meh.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I slept literally all day yesterday and I believe myself to be the last person on Earth to know about this. We'll see how that stands when my friend signs on AIM.

Anyway, yeah, nixon echoes my thoughts perfectly here. So perfectly it frightens me.
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