I'm writing this letter as a long time fan of Nintendo games and products. I've owned just about every console you have put out from Nintendo Entertainment System to Gameboy to Virtual Boy to Gamecube. When the Revolution was first announced I was at first curious and questionable about the direction of the Revolution controller and have wanted to see what you actually do with this controller and if you really can entice both your current gamers and non-gamers to your new console.
After the announcement of the official name of your new console though, Wii, i'm going with no. The name of your console should roll off your tongue and feel genuine. Have physical meaning and be easily used in conversation with friends and discussing with others. This name has none of those qualities. It signifies nothing on its own and you literally have to read your page long mission statement specifically made to explain the name to understand it. How is this good marketing? A consumer should be able to quickly establish a connection between a name and a product, it should make sense and be concise with meaning. Not to mention in a lot of regions its easily misinterpreted slang for some rather personal functions and anatomy that a name of a console just shouldn't be associated with.
As a gamer who has bought and enjoyed your products in the past I plead with you to change your name of this console before it launches. Your idea for "disrupting" the industry can be taken only so far before you start distrupting your own plans and console. I know i'm not nearly alone in my thinking on this matter and i'm sure you have probably gotten hundreds or thousands of letters already on this matter and i'm adding my voice to this opposition till it's heard and heeded. I should be proud to want to pick up your console at launch day. I should be proud to walk into a store and ask for a copy of a game on your system, not ashamed or embarrassed to mention the name. Please, do not let this happen.
Oh, shut the hell up. NIntendo wouldn't change the name of something just because a lot of people dislike it.
I don't even know if it's the actual name of the console. Here's something you should think about. The name, Wii, has NOT been trademarked in ANY country on this planet.
The theory is that they're building up even more hype and attention by announcing a bad name, and that they will announce the real name at E3. In fact, Nintendo hasn't trademarked any new names at all. They probably registered the new name under a dummy corp and will announce it at E3.
Don't try and categorize myself with dumbasses, I'm not a "gamer" and obviously if you weren't you would know the alternative.
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Anonymous2006-04-29 13:01 (sage)
Anonymous = dumbass
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Anonymous2006-04-29 13:04
Wow, it's like the celda thing all over again.
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Anonymous2006-04-29 18:00 (sage)
Saging this for stupidity.
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Anonymous2006-04-29 20:33
Mah name is hank hill and i love the vidya game
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Anonymous2006-04-30 13:48 (sage)
sage for awesome tie in from a previous thread
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Over 17 Thread2006-05-01 15:25
yeah, and Gamecube, Playstation, Xbox, Dreamcast, Geneisus, 32x, Jaguar, Neo-Geo, are all creative and nice names =.=
Hmm, lets see
Skittles, Twix, Kit-Kat, Nerds, Willy Wonka, Integra, Viper, Cobra, Married with Children, Drew Carey Show, Tonight Show, Fuck me In the Ass, Asian Fever, Your Daughter gets fucked by Blackzilla, Konami, Nintendo, Sony, etc
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Playstaion, Playstaion2, Playstaion3, Playstaioninsert#here,
Xbox, Xbox 360, Xboxwithapinchofsalt, etc.
Play games if it's fun, not for how it's name sounds.
It just sounds like a popularity game with me.
let me ask you a question, not regarding, the systems, but just this name obssesion.
If you had a choice between, a well known, popular car,
that has a cool name, but brakes down at the drop of a hat,
or a poorly named car, that was dependable, and gets you to work but people would laugh at you for buying it, which would you get? Again NOT a camparison of systems, since caontrary to popular belief broke down at seemingly random, just involving this name deal.
(goes back to searching for guardian heroes)
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Anonymous2006-05-01 21:27
>>20
you just say it a poorly named car dosent sell
gb2/economics class
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Anonymous2006-05-01 21:32
>>20
so what is ""Playstaion, Playstaion2, Playstaion3, Playstaioninsert,camparison,"obssesion"
the fuck gb2 school son learn to write first lol
or maybe im wrong and you are just a illegal immigrant so gb2 mexico lol
This is the point of where we gotta think, who gives a flying fuck? The name "Wii" is nothing to bitch about, it's innocent in nature, until some pervert busts out with the "Wii Wii" joke. A name does not define what a system is, or how it will do. A name will not decide if a system will have 32 Bits GFX or 3D. Get off your fucking horse kid, you're on it ass backward and you seem to think people care about what you have to say.