Revolution gets new name

NES_fanatic · Post by **NES_fanatic** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:49 pm

NES_fanatic wrote:So lets get this straight:
I go to Gamestop.
I say to the clerk, "I wanna 'wee'!"
I buy one.
I go wii wii wii all the way home.
Then I brag about playing with my 'wee'.

Now we just tell JT and his head'll explode.

This was on page 1. Check the post time.

This YTMND stole my joke!

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:50 pm

NES_Fanatic wrote:

How can this day piss me off further?

The last remaining Beatles die?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:50 pm

Look I know Nintendo want to get more market by bringing in non-gamers. The problem is that if you alienate your main target audiance, your going to do more harm then good to your bussiness. They should consider that the idea of "the Nintendo Revolution is a revolution to how console games are played", sounds a hell of a lot better then "the Nintendo Wii, a new concept in gaming."

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:51 pm

http://wiihatethename.com/

Hot damn. That was fast.

EDIT: Well well well, what do we have here: Wii Hate the Name T-shirts???

NES_fanatic · Post by **NES_fanatic** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:53 pm

iam7805 wrote:NES_Fanatic wrote:
How can this day piss me off further?
The last remaining Beatles die?

Wow if that happens in the next week I'm hunting you down.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:54 pm

I love the title of the website. Let's hope this is one of the very, very, very few times online petition that does cause the company to react.

cowsgoquack101 · Post by **cowsgoquack101** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:57 pm

Forget Nintendo's crappy "Wii" name They can take that and shove it up their arse. I'm going to continue to call it the Revolution like it rightfully should be called!

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:00 pm

That'll make a difference.

Motoman · Post by **Motoman** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:05 pm

wii.....wii....wii......shall....overco.......Ahh screw It! I cant take this any more Nintendo!!! You first raise my interest, you create a completely new gaming experience and then you copulate it up by proceeding to name it after what a young child calls his dick!!! Do you ever learn!!!!! So many things you did wrong and now this? Breaking the partnership with Sony, choosing cartridges for the n64, no online play for the GC, now you have 2 mistakes with the revolu....i mean wii, no HD and a stupid name. It seems like Nintendo has just accepeted their position in the gameing market as "The losers" and being in "last place" and have just proceeded to maintain such a position. Are you content with being last? Are you content with appealing to only 1 gameing market, that being Japan? Are you content with disapointing milllions upon millions of Nintendo fans? You try to attract a massive audience by establishing a gameing enviroment that includes all people and yet you alienate them by greatly overdoing it on the name. The name is the thing everyone remembers. The name describes the system, but in this case it describes it too much. As my friend Peter would say: "Are you joking me hard?!?!?!"

NES_fanatic · Post by **NES_fanatic** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:09 pm

The viral advertising seems to be working. I see a bait-n-switch a week before release.

Lucretius · Post by **Lucretius** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:20 pm

Tim Buckley, of CAD, wrote:Suddenly that sex toy controller makes so much sense...

The picture gets clearer...Potatomoto is a pedifile...

Weebl · Post by **Weebl** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:23 pm

Lucretius wrote: Anyway, I'm more disgusted with the notoriously horrid marketing of Nintendo. People need to be fired. Really. Their consoles are made with high quality (if not without equally high repidity). But "Touching is Good"? "Wii"?

Normally I seem to disagree with you regarding Nintendo's business practices, but here I agree. Honestly, if they really thought the "touching is good" slogan was catchy, then they're pathetic. Same goes for "Wii".

They also seem to do a terrible job of advertising. Apparently they made a TV commercial for Metroid Prime: Hunters, but I have yet to see it. Actually, I have never seen a Nintendo advertisement on TV in my extensive time of watching it.

Perhaps they'd do better to have different names for the console across the world. As Gamelver said, it seems Nintendo caters more to the Japanese market, and I read somewhere that "Wii" means "good" in Japanese. If they'd keep the name Wii for Japan, that'd be great, but then to have a different name here would please us. Naturally it would be somewhat confusing to have two different names, but if if satisfies customers, then that should really be what matters.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:31 pm

why would it be confusing to have two different names? the famicom and NES are different names so why not have the Wii and revolution

Post by **Skyone** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:39 pm

The logo's so good.

Post by **Triton** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:48 pm

sure it looks good but the name is just crap, we? wtf mate! i will still get one but the name sounds silly, i shall refer to it as the revolution