Wii

[Domino]

I don't care what a console's name is as long as it plays games. A game console could be called the crap-o-matic 500, but as long is at has games that i enjoy, i could care less.

I thought the name Revolution was great. But since the name change, it is not gonna deter me from purchasing it.  The Xbox360 might not be the best name for a console either, but it is one of the best consoles i have ever used (got to love the xbox live arcade!)

I am a bit iffy on the Wii controller, but i also hated wireless controllers until I used the Xbox360 controller, and fell in love with it right away. (it sleeps with me at night.  )

Bring on the new systems, and everybody keep enjoying games, plain and simple.

[Las Naranjas]

Bear in mind that Western and Eastern buisness practice is generally very different. Traditionally, it's the American/European companies that focus on short-term profit whereas the Asian business model tends to project at least ten years into the future.

hahahahahahahahahahah. I'm sorry, but for someone who spends much of his time studying how the rediculous short term profit making mentality of the late 80's and early 90s is largely to blame for the 15 year stagnation in the Japanese economy, this is hilarious. Long term thinking doesn't create speculative bubbles, let alone massive real estate and stock market bubbles at the same time, let alone the [then] largest stock bubble and a real estate bubble that values land in Tokyo as more than the entire land mass of the United States.
And it's only 9 years since short term thinking in most of the rest of East Asia pulled the region into crisis.

Nah, I'm afraid whether nihonjinron or Lee's "Asian Values" is cited, they're just as greedy and stupid as the rest of us.

[MrColossal]

You have no idea how popular the gameboy is. People are still buying Gameboy Colour games and the GBA is amazingly profitable. The DS makes up something like 40% of Ninetendo's revenue.

I know exactly how popular the Nintendo handhelds are. I have a gameboy colour and actually still use it. I didn't say anything bad about the handhelds. Only consoles. I am just a big 'ol nintendo hater. Its just how I was raised.



Oh and the fact that the DS makes up almost half the profits of Nintendo is somewhat sad.



Some of those quotes sound like Nintendo is trying to control us and make us join together and rise up in rovolt. Lol

So a company makes millions and millions of dollars off of it's handheld console and that's sad? The gameboy and the DS are consoles by the way. You may like to pretend they aren't but ask any company developing for it.

Man, of all the companies in this world to hate... Nintendo? I will never understand fanboy mentality.

[Vince Twelve]

(Wii controller)

Don't you mean the "Wii-mote controller"?

[The Inquisitive Stranger]

The more I read about people hating the name, the more I like it.

[iamus]

Nah, I'm afraid whether nihonjinron or Lee's "Asian Values" is cited, they're just as greedy and stupid as the rest of us.

Fair doos.

I bow to your superior knowledge there.

[Las Naranjas]

No no no! You're not meant to give in when there's a discussion on the internet! You're meant to bring up nazis or something!

[iamus]

Well I was going to say that the economic stagnation was in fact part of a sixty-odd year plan formulated by the Germans and Japanese during WWii......

Wait a mo.....


DO YOU SEE!?!

[Las Naranjas]

and since the Office of Strategic Services claimed in 1943 that Hitler was "an extreme masochist who derives sexual pleasure from having a woman squat over him while she urinates or defecates in his face", we can see the whole sinister plot begin to unfold.

[Etcher Squared Games]

My quicky 2 cents...

I've been loyal Nintendo since 1984.
I only own a PS2 because I got a nice tax return in 2005.

I'm not saying that Nintendo is the best system ever...I'm just a very loyal person.

When Dolphin was coming out...I was excited...then I heard they changed the name to "GameCube".  I honestly thought this was a DUMB name.  Even for a few months after getting the GameCube, I still referred to it as Dolphin.

But the name grew on me.   Made sense too, it's a ....cube....

Wii though....I dunno right now....a bit strange.  I was looking forward to a Revolution.
But my point is...it's the same thing happening again...but Wii is almost...too simple...if given the task to name the Revolution...
*thinks for a second*

Nintendo XP...j/k

I can't think of anything at the moment, but whatever...it's the new Nintendo, so long as the games are cool, I'm happy.

[sergiocornaga]

I live in hope that the name is a fake, searching the internet for evidence that supports this theory and ignoring all evidence that condradicts it.

[Kinoko]

I think there are a few arguments getting mixed up here. I'm sure this will be successful and make Nintendo a bunch of money. Good on them, I have always been a Nintendo fangirl and as angry as they make me sometimes, it's where my roots/loyalty lies.

The thing about people on the internet's opinions not mattering in the "real world" seems silly to me. What do you think the internet is? A bunch of robots spewing out endless opinions? We're all people, and I'll say to my friends that I meet on the weekend in a coffee shop (okay, I don't meet friends in a coffee shop but bear with me here) exactly the same stuff I say on the net. The internet just gets this eputation of being so seperate because it's so EASY to write whatever you want on the net. If anything, this is where peoples feelings on a subject really come out.

Like I've said, this name won't stop me buying one, and I'll probably adore the machine, but nothing will make me think of "Wii" as a good name. You can try and sound all adult and mature and call the humour "childish" if you like, but the fact that this has happened is the proof that this name generally makes people think of 'wee'.

It is NOT comparable to the word "we" which is used in a completely different manner. As someone said, "Wii" is a noun. There are heaps of phrases I would use with any of my other consoles that are now going to make me feel like a retard if I use the word "Wii". I will probably have to call it the Revolution because of that.

Everyone keeps saying they'll still buy one, no matter what the name is. That's fine, but as long as you people aren't using that as an argument against people thinking the name is shit. Nintendo could have called it a zillion things other than someone that's, for most people, embarrasing or funny to say.

Out of interest, has anyone gone onto any PS or Xbox forums to read what they're all saying about this?

EDIT: Oh yeah... I'm playing my WonderSwan colour right now, and it rocks XD Please do name your children after it.

[sergiocornaga]

I still find it hard to say "Wii'll" as in "Gee, the Wii'll be so great". Theoretically, it should be pronounced like "we'll" so it'll probably end up sounding like "wheel"... 

[vict0r]

I'm playing with my Wii!




I'm honestly very truly sorry...

[Vince Twelve]

I think the argument about the internet not being equal to real life is not meant to be what you're interpreting it to be.  I believe the idea is not that what people say on the internet is not what they think in real life.  It's saying that the internet's vocal minority is not equal to the target audience of the device, it's merely a small subset.  There's life outside of the internet that Nintendo is aiming for.  People who've never played a video game because they're intimidated by something; be it the price, the types of the games, or the complicated controllers.

That being said, I still think that the name is in fact going to lose them some sales to the few "hardcore gamers" who won't own a Wii entirely because of the dumb name.  The question that is yet to be answered, and which Nintendo must be confident of the answer to, is whether or not the name is going to gain more sales than it loses by winning over a completely different and much larger crowd.

I still don't like the name, I think it was a bad move.  I'm pretty sure they could have come up with something that would have appealed to the masses without making everyone make pee jokes. 

Regardless of the name, I can't wait to play with my Wii all night.

[modgeulator]

I'm playing with my Wii!

It's actually more difficult to use "Wii" in a sentence without creating a double-entendre than not to.Ã,  :

From the official site at http://revolution.nintendo.com/


"Introducing... Wii.
As in "wee."
But you're probably asking: What does the name mean?
Wii sounds like "wee," which emphasizes that this console is like a warm puddle of urine dripping down your pants leg.
Wii can easily be remembered by young children and the severely mentally handicapped. No confusion. No need to abbreviate. Our fans are a bit like that.
Wii brings images of people gathering to play with and Wii on each other.
So that's Wii. But now Nintendo need you.
Because at Nintendo we like to Wii together."

[ManicMatt]

It only has one analog stick? How do you move the camera? Won't it being having 3D games at all? Fixed perspectives?



I can see it now..

CURRYS SALESPERSON: "How may I help you?"
CUSTOMER: "Hello sir. I'd like to buy a why please."
CURRYS...: "A why? Like as in wi-fi?"
CUSTOMER: "No! A why! I want to buy my son one."
CURRYS...: "A wire? A letter of the alphabet??"
CUSTOMER: "Noo! The games machine, why!"
CURRYS...: "Oh! Your son wants a wee!"
CUSTOMER: "What? Is he clutching himself or something? *Looks at son* He seems fine to me! If you're not going to give me a why I'll take my business elsewhere."
CURRYS...: "Wait! I'll give you a wee!"
CUSTOMER: "WHAT?? HOW DARE YOU! KEEP YOUR ZIP CLOSED! I'M NOT TAKING THIS, I DEMAND TO SEE A MANAGER!"

[Privateer Puddin']

but sony really know how to make their console glow freshly of quality!

that's a joke, right?

[Mr Flibble]

I'd like to think that Ninty will pull something amazing out of the bag here, and all the fanboys saying that Wii is a silly name will quietly go away.

My first impression was the Nintendo had shot themselves in the foot. Its almost as if they want people to hate it. The name makes sense in Japan, with "ii" meaning good (or something to this effect) but in the West it doesn't quite sit right. The fact that Ninty had to explain the name in a press release sorta deflates the idea of it being accessible the way they had planned.

Maybe they're trying to move away from their kiddy image? I can imagine a child being swayed to an 360 more easily than a Wii.

I still intend to buy one, and I hope the name grows on me. I don't particularly dislike it, and I can feel it starting to grow on me.

As for the Net/Real Life thing, I think its more of a problem in real life, seeing how the name can be confused for other common words it sounds akin to. Unless of course, we called it the Nintendo Wii. That could clear things up.

EDIT: Just realised that in conversation we could just say "Nintendo" if the name Wii turns out to be awkward in aural use.

[Snarky]

Whatever you think about 'Wii' (and people are going to get used to it real quick, just like other weird names like iPod and The Colber' Repor'), 'Revolution' would have been a horrible name for the console. It's such a generic label. If they wanted the message to be "we're exactly like every other console on the market", they would have stuck with the code name. Do you think regular people would remember that it's Xbox that is 360 and Nintendo that is Revolution? (One revolution = 360 degrees)

Now they will at least be distinctive. If the console is any good, we'll learn to associate good things with the name.

What adult says "wee" for urine/urination, anyway?