I've never based my opinions of a console over its name and I don't think I ever will, but Wii? I still think it's all a hoax...
Oh, I know that all too well. My Spanish teacher has a female beagle and hangs up all kinds of photos, awards, trophys... We all tell him how much he loves bitches. It's just that those who proliferate the phallic/urinary jokes are taking it too far and distorting the name's image. Yes, it's TOO EASY to poke fun at. I know that. Everyone's read the same "Wii" jokes over ad infinitum. The problem isn't necessarily all within the name, but with certain people. I mean, if I hear a double entendre, I'll chuckle, but it won't stop me from enjoying what I set out to do in the first place. Who the hell forsakes a console because of a stupid name? I know--Nintendo isn't catering to everyone's whims; why lower yourself to accepting people's pleas in this case? Sure, you may lose a few sales, but the principle remains that, just because there's a huge disagreement over something as superficial as a name, you're STILL GOING TO GET A DAMN FINE MACHINE. SO QUIT BITCHING. Wasn't Nintendo suppose to fold eight or nine times already? It keeps *gasp* surviving somehow.. I'm going to go stab and light myself on fire, and then jump out a window if I can't figure THIS out.
Bingo. That's the problem. The name has only been out there for 36 hours, and already it's the laughing stock of the internet. Any publicity is good publicity... that is, until people start photoshopping your multi-billion dollar console covered in urine. The danger here is that the urine covered console becomes the brand image, thus tarnishing the revolution's reputation before it even launches.
exactly what i meant i'm still burning for them not taking out the snes cdrom and using carts for N64.... ninty let me down at that time... and they seem to enjoy making people from the snes time sad
What image? the "we" concept? is just so lame nintendo tries to make everybody their fanboys with that "you're part of this" instead of "you're just a buyer".
every company does this though, or at least they're supposed to. Even coke found out they had consumers conditioned enough to consider coke a part of their daily lives when they changed the formula to copy pepsi with that new coke.
I hope not.. I'm excited enough for them already. Nintendo won't go down without a fight, however way they want to do it.
Well, guys, you can say what you want, but since i knew that Revolution was renamed to Wii, that damn word has sticked in my head. It's particular. Even the Nintendo DS was a poor name, but it sticks. It has marketing value (or how ever you want to call it). I wouldnt wonder if Sony made an announcement tomorrow about the fact that "the PS3 will be renamed to SP3", or similar.
Ok, what if Sony named their new system the "Gaistation" because its got Gai at the beginning of the named which kind of means sequel? That would create LOTS of publicity.
