My letter to Nintendo regarding Wii

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.

Thank You

>>39
http//tess2.uspto.gov/...

This makes me wonder otherwise.

WIIABOO

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=u3jh9o.2.1

What the fuck? Deleted posts?

Er, deleted searches, what did you search for again because the sessions always expire in the link.

Well, anyway, just look up Wii at that website and you'll see that Nintendo has trademarked Wii.

I love how you guys care about the names of a console, and obviously find all the games announced for it irrelevant. If you cared about the games, you wouldn't complain.

"We're Sony! Fuck Pants!"

I love how people think that just because Nintendo thought up a crappy name for their console that everybody else should automatically love it.  I think the name is crap but doesn't mean that I won't buy the console.  Complaining is a right of the consumer.

It'll growon on you.

>>47
Would buy a console called "dick","cock", or "Penis"?

>>50
like a rash.

>>51
Yes, I would. As long as it didn't actually, you know, look like them.

I've taken to calling it the nintendo Desu. I saw it in another thread, remarked about it there, and have been calling it that ever since. the name Desu is far better than the Nintendo "Fuck off, I'm pissing"

I suggest that you get a life.

Why is it so important to you what a god damned console is named? Think about it: You will [u]not[/u] get any more pleasure from playing on the console, no matter what it's named. It's not suddenly going to have 2 times better graphics and HDMI just because they rename it.

TL;DR: OP is a no-life retard.

>>54

I suggest you get a life too.  Why do you care whether or not OP like the name?  Will get more or less pleasure from your console?  If you don't care, be on your merry way while the rest of us sulk.

>>55
THATS RIGHT IF >>54 dont like the name then stop posting and bitching

>>55 IS DAMN RIGHT

>>55
>>56
SAME PERSON. GO BACK TO START!

Oh smaps, I'm playing a Play Station, but the name sucks, so it's not fun.  Only if it would've been named the Wii!!

Nintendo shares drop 10 per cent on slow Wii U sales

Shares of the Japanese game company slid 10 per cent after it slashed Wii U sales expectations for the period between March last year and April. It now expects to move only 2.8 million Wii U game consoles, 69 per cent down from an earlier forecast of nine million units.

   Nintendo also predicted a loss of 35 billion yen to make it three years of losses in a row. It faces stiff competition in the console business from Microsoft and Sony

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They'll stone you when you are walking home
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They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave

But I would not feel so all alone
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