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Old 04-30-06, 06:05 PM
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Old 04-30-06, 06:14 PM
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what about Nintendo Evolution - the future of gaming is here (and coming)
Old 04-30-06, 07:49 PM
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Although, I like the name revolution... it's kinda long and hard to pronounce or spell (from a non-native English speaker). 'Revo' would be an alternative to make it shorter..
I thought that they would defenitely shorten the name and they did..... but the name wii kinda sound strange regardless..... wee wiiiiiiii
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So if you bought two of them, hooked them up in a system link...

...would that be considered playing with your Wii Wii?
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I could also see people (mainly clueless parents buying it for their kids) pronouncing it 'Why'. "Do you have any more Nintendo Whys?" "You mean Wees?" Probably won't hurt sales in any way, but it's also not the best thing as far as brand/name recognition.
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Ugh, I don't really like the name, but I think the 360 is equally stupid (that's right folks! We turned in a complete circle and are right back where we started!) so I guess we'll see how it turns out.

Interesting that, even though there is an article about the new name, Nintendo.com still has "Revolution" all over it.
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I've had all this time to think about the name and i still find it to be hugely inappropriate.
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Ugh, I don't really like the name, but I think the 360 is equally stupid (that's right folks! We turned in a complete circle and are right back where we started!) so I guess we'll see how it turns out.

Interesting that, even though there is an article about the new name, Nintendo.com still has "Revolution" all over it.
Not a big fan of the name 360. I guess they couldn't just call it the Xbox 2 because they were afraid of the Playstation 3 sounding superior. Still come on Wii. That name is so unbeliably stupid. A friend of mine who works in a game shop asked how can he sell something called Wii.
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After a few days to let it sink in, I still think it's terrible.

Any time you have to explain how to pronounce your product's name (and it's a gross misspelling of the word you want to emulate), you have a problem.

If they wanted to emulate the i-pod, they probably should have just named it i-something. I don't think they would have had any trademark problems since they are in a different market...plus i-river pulled it off and they are a direct competitor with Apple.

i-toy (perhaps not)
i-game
i-play
i-rev
i-change
i-control
i-wave
i-move
i-act
i-fi
i-share
i-lookmuchmoreinterestingthanthePS3orXbox360sobuymenomatterwhatI'mcalled
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MOD NOTE: This post was moved from the Official Wii Thread pt 2. -namja

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