Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 10, 2011, 09:27:38 PM
Title: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 10, 2011, 09:27:38 PM
We are all calling the Wiiu by different names and we all call the controller by different names too.
So I thought it would be fun to decide on a universal name for just the controller for everyone that doesn't already have a nickname for it.
If what you want isn't listed, just vote other and then name it in the thread. I will then add it to the poll if it's a valid name.
Everyone can change their votes at any time should a better name show up on the poll.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Adrock on June 10, 2011, 10:02:49 PM
Part of me wants to name it "Gameboy" for nostalgia's sake, but that would confuse everyone. I chose other since I didn't like the options. I'll get back to you on the name. uCon just reminds me of the University of Connecticut.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Morari on June 10, 2011, 10:06:40 PM
uPad. Like D-Pad, but different.
F-U? :P
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 10, 2011, 10:13:49 PM
Gotta love how the poll randomizes order after you change something. I only had to edit it 2 more times after I edited it just to keep "other" as the last option.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: alegoicoe on June 10, 2011, 10:37:40 PM
maybe Virtual U, lol
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: ThePerm on June 10, 2011, 11:11:34 PM
Screemote
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Sarail on June 11, 2011, 12:11:50 AM
I've just been calling it the "U controller", and that's all. Simple as that.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Ceric on June 11, 2011, 12:22:59 AM
Part of me wants to name it "Gameboy" for nostalgia's sake, but that would confuse everyone. I chose other since I didn't like the options. I'll get back to you on the name. uCon just reminds me of the University of Connecticut.
uBoy: The Wonder Mote
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Chozo Ghost on June 11, 2011, 12:32:09 AM
The controller should adopt the name "Wii U" just so that the console itself would then have to be named something different.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: King of Twitch on June 11, 2011, 12:33:48 AM
All aboard the uBoat! *Brmmmmmmmmmm* *Brmmmmmmmm*
REGGIE HIMSELF COULDN'T SINK THIS SHIP.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: UncleBob on June 11, 2011, 01:08:32 AM
U-Force.
err.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: ShyGuy on June 15, 2011, 02:07:13 PM
DualShock U Sixaxis.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Ian Sane on June 15, 2011, 02:15:37 PM
Remember the NES controller's name? Oh right you don't because it was just the NES controller. So why does this even need a name? Why can't it just be the Wii U controller?
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: ShyGuy on June 15, 2011, 02:16:47 PM
Things starting getting fancy with Wavebird. What an awesome name that was.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Enner on June 15, 2011, 03:03:07 PM
Remember the NES controller's name? Oh right you don't because it was just the NES controller. So why does this even need a name? Why can't it just be the Wii U controller?
It would be useful to have some sort of shorthand for the controller.
Also, nicknames are fun.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Adrock on June 15, 2011, 03:42:42 PM
The controller needs a name because it's not the only controller anymore because Wii/WiiU has 43 different controllers...
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Chozo Ghost on June 15, 2011, 04:58:21 PM
Remember the NES controller's name? Oh right you don't because it was just the NES controller. So why does this even need a name? Why can't it just be the Wii U controller?
You're absolutely right. The first time a controller was ever officially given a name (that I know of and can recall off hand) was Sony's Dualshock controller for the PS1. But that was likely necessary in order to distinguish itself from the original playstation controller which had no name and lacked the analogs. Every other system that I know of up until that point did not have a name for it. Even controllers afterwards like the Xbox controller, Gamecube controller, etc. didn't really have names either.
It seems to only be necessary to name the controller when you have a console which ends up having multiple controllers and then the need arises to differentiate them somehow.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: MegaByte on June 15, 2011, 05:02:52 PM
The first time a controller was ever officially given a name (that I know of and can recall off hand) was Sony's Dualshock controller for the PS1.
NES Advantage and NES Max anybody?
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: ThePerm on June 15, 2011, 05:04:00 PM
there were named controllers on NES, NES Advantage, NES MAX, ZAPPER, Power Pad
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on June 15, 2011, 05:08:12 PM
The Advantage wasn't packed in with the system. It was a separate product, and so it needed a separate name. I'm repeating myself between threads here, but the only packed in controllers (at launch) to have separate names were the DualShock 2, SixAxis, and Wii Remote, as I recall, and the Wii Remote is arguable.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: nickmitch on June 15, 2011, 06:21:02 PM
I like uPad. It seems like a natural fit after WiiMote. Plus, it welcomes the iPad comparisons.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Ian Sane on June 15, 2011, 07:39:01 PM
It seems like the extra controllers will be Wii remotes and CC's. Since we already can identify those, we could always not name the screen one and just call it the "main" or "normal" controller. If you owned a joystick or something like that for your NES or SNES what did you call the normal controllers to differentiate them?
Though I'll bet there was some official Nintendo name for the pre-Gamecube controllers. We probably just never used that naming convention. Did anyone ever call cartridges "game paks" like Nintendo always did?
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Kairon on June 16, 2011, 12:55:19 AM
I voted other because in my head I'm calling it the Tablet Controller
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Mop it up on June 16, 2011, 01:07:29 AM
Knowing Nintendo, it won't have a clever name. They wouldn't even call the remote a Wiimote. I wouldn't be surprised if it had a clunky name like Wii U Screen Controller, but they might try something a little more compact like Wii U Book or UBook.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: ThePerm on June 16, 2011, 02:09:54 AM
imagine something very .....
The Shimmering Koi!!
or CafeTable
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Chozo Ghost on June 16, 2011, 02:24:18 AM
That's because decisions like that come from their corporate HQ in Japan where English isn't spoken much (if at all). Its difficult to give something a clever name when the name has to be in a language you don't speak very well.
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Post by: apdude on June 16, 2011, 03:15:10 AM
UDraw+
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: JasonMaivia on June 19, 2011, 02:10:46 AM
This thing is going to be sold to the masses again, or at least attempted to be sold to them, so the name would probably be something that anyone can understand if all of the controllers were laid out in front of them.
It should have touch or screen in it, but nothing that non-gamers wouldn't understand. This means no fancy names or old Nintendo-based names from older consoles (GameBoy).
It'll be something, like the Touch Controller. I'll hate it of a minute, then start calling it the Screen Wiimote or something even dumber.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Chozo Ghost on June 19, 2011, 04:02:02 AM
This thing is going to be sold to the masses again, or at least attempted to be sold to them,
Looks like Nintendo is aiming for a one controller per console strategy, and since it comes bundled with the console everyone will have it when they purchase the console. So the controller doesn't need to be marketed as a separate product to be sold to the masses, and therefore probably doesn't really need a name. It will have one I'm sure, but its not a big deal if it does or doesn't.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: JasonMaivia on June 19, 2011, 04:49:54 AM
I was also thinking of the when the next console is released, will the Wii U Touchscreen Tablet of Doom end up being replaced or allowed to work? It'll then need a name of its own, and "New controller" isn't going to work anymore. (New Super Mario Bros. isn't so New anymore).
Right now, we don't know if the old Wii remotes, nunchucks, or any of the classic controllers will be bundled with the console or not. If the new controller is ever to be sold in the future, what would it be called (these things will break), and i doubt that most of the consumer population will call Nintendo for every thing that needs to be repaired or replaced.
Anyway, for the games, there'll be instructions to how to play them, and they're gonna have to call the controller something, right? You know when you start a Wii game that requires the Nunchuck, like Super Mario Galaxy or Metroid Prime Trilogy, it'll let you know. Say that your tablet screen wasn't turned on, sync'd or wasn't charged up (dead battery), the game may ask that you please connect the "_____ controller" to the Wii. "New Controller" shouldn't be it. If the device doesn't have a name, then it'll only confuse some people, unless it's going to be the "System Name Controller", like the Gamecube, N64, SNES, and NES. But the difference here is that, like the Wii, this new controller offers a unique way of playing on home consoles, and will be used with a bunch of other Wii controllers for multiplayer and Virtua Console gaming.
Just because it comes with the console doesn't mean that it'll always be the controller that consumers will use as the default controller. I'm sure that Nintendo will come up with something simple and easy for most consumers to understand.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: nickmitch on June 19, 2011, 08:11:23 PM
Well, it obviously won't be the default controller for players 2-4. Hurr, hurr.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 19, 2011, 08:23:50 PM
Well, it obviously won't be the default controller for players 2-4. Hurr, hurr.
But it should be.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Lithium on June 20, 2011, 12:05:14 AM
voted Upad since it's easier to say, but nintendo probably wont go for it since its just one letter away from Ipad
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Chozo Ghost on June 20, 2011, 12:37:41 AM
The U name would kinda be more appropriate if the controller itself were actually U shaped somehow. Its not, though, its a Tablet.
U could work if the U stands for Uno which means One in Spanish. Since there is only one controller, calling it the Uno Pad or Uno Tablet kinda makes sense.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 20, 2011, 12:44:23 AM
If you trace the path from the controls on the left down to the + home - on the bottom and then the buttons on the right while going around the screen, you have a U shape.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Ceric on June 20, 2011, 05:11:47 PM
I still vote uMote and U won't sway me. Or Maybe MoteU or Wiimote U...
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Sarail on June 20, 2011, 07:50:10 PM
But it's not a remote....
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: nickmitch on June 20, 2011, 09:04:14 PM
It's more of a pad. . .
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 20, 2011, 09:18:56 PM
until I download the universal remote app from the eShop. ;)
Agreed so hard. Nintendo's about to hook up a few million tablets to the world's entertainment centers, and they're the one company that I'm sure wouldn't even consider the applications beyond their own console. :-\
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Ceric on June 21, 2011, 03:23:43 PM
until I download the universal remote app from the eShop. ;)
Agreed so hard. Nintendo's about to hook up a few million IR Enabled tablets to the world's entertainment centers, and they're the one company that I'm sure wouldn't even consider the applications beyond their own console. :-\
Fixed for even more Irony.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Caterkiller on June 21, 2011, 04:39:17 PM
I like Utouch. TouchU just sounds sexual.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 12, 2011, 04:07:13 PM
Why does it have to have a name? Controllers never used to have names. I think the only ones that do are the DualShocks, Wii Remote, and maybe the Xbox Controller S (and Wavebird). Wii U controller would be fine with me, so I go with that.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: JasonMaivia on July 12, 2011, 06:29:25 PM
I think the reason it needs a name is, unlike most other consoles, the Wii has a standard set of controllers officially made for the console. Wiimote was the center in the connectivity of other types needed for different media.
You need the Balance Board for Wii Fit. The Classic Controller best fit games that uses the normal controller button layout (or to meet the minimal amount of buttons needed for Virtual Console games). The Nunchuck gives analog movement and allows for both motion and pointer options to be used.
Some games requires the use of just a Wii Remote or a combination of controllers to be used for playing. Giving them names only makes things easier.
Looking back at other systems, like the SNES and NES, there was no need for a controller with a name, unless a game requred something else, like the Super Scope games and games that uses the Zapper. The Playstation, outside of lightguns, didn't need anything but a normal controller, until analog movement and the Dual Analod/Dual Shock controllers were introduced to those users. For some games, analog was optional, but there are still a wealthy library of PSOne games that is analog-controller only.
When there is only one controller needed for 100% of a game console's library, then there would be a need for any special controller names.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: Mop it up on July 12, 2011, 06:45:50 PM
For some games, analog was optional, but there are still a wealthy library of PSOne games that is analog-controller only.
Were there? Ape Escape is the only one I've ever heard of.
Title: Re: Naming the WiiU Controller
Post by: JasonMaivia on July 12, 2011, 08:44:21 PM
Sorry. I had a lot of PS2 games on my mind that required the uses of the analog stick for movement. Many of those games made the switch to being analog-exclusive once they've meddled with analog controls of the PSOne, with many of them using the either one to control the character/vehicle or for something else (example: items in Devil May Cry 3)
Off the top of my head, PSone games, like Ace Combat 2 and 3, some racing games, and a few action games that has the analog mode on at default. The Ape Escape series, of course, used the analog sticks exclusively.
I shouldn't have used PSOne as an example.
For Wii U, there's going to be games that'll tell you to switch to or connect/disconnect the "XXX Controller", like you'd see with games, like Super Mario Galaxy, Virtual Console, and other games that does or doesn't want specific controllers to be connected.
Calling it the "Wii U Controller" would be fine, but Nintendo will probably start selling more Wii remotes, Classic Controllers, and Nunchucks. As seen with a number of demostrations at E3 and other game shows, they've all been used with the majority of first and third party games. No multiplayer game so far has been seen with more than one Wii U tablet controller.
