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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii
« on: April 28, 2006, 12:45:11 AM »
"I get the feeling there's a lot more paranoia from Nintendo fans worried about the name being ridiculed than there is actual ridiculing going on anyway."

Yeah, I've shown the name to a bunch of friends and all of them basically said, "hmmm" or "okay". Sort of disappointing, I wanted to revel in some immaturity.

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TalkBack / RE: Revolution Name Announced!
« on: April 28, 2006, 12:31:22 AM »
How dare you trivialize what is clearly a very serious statement concerning such gravely important subject matter as the proper nomenclature of an audiovisual interactive entertainment machine. For shame, sir.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: 1UP on last secret "perhaps the most intriguing element of the system"
« on: April 27, 2006, 09:39:47 PM »
No. No webcam, no keyboard, no separate mic. I don't want this thing turning into a WiiCii.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:1UP on last secret "perhaps the most intriguing element of the system"
« on: April 27, 2006, 08:48:48 PM »
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Originally posted by: zakkiel

I've turned this name over in my head, asked myself if it can grow on me. And I've decided that if it does, I will lose all respect for myself. Because it could maan Nintendo really could do anything, and I would convince myself it's right. I would basically have to abandon any pretense that my opinions about Nintendo had any validity, because I would always convince myself that Nintendo knows best.

Come on now. You've never disagreed with any Nintendo decisions so far?

Be that as it may, I like this name but no amount of Nintendo PR can make me accept Metroid Prime Hunters or this vapid online direction they seem to be going in.

Let the marketing execs at Nintendo decide on the most effective name for their console... but when marketing seeps into and effectively lobotomizes the games they make is when I get angry.

Anyway... the editorial/blog seems to have been edited since the quote, because they no longer directly claim to know the secret.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii
« on: April 27, 2006, 04:53:59 PM »
You think Nintendo hasn't tested it on average consumers? No offense, but I'll take the word of their marketing experts over what you think it sounds like to you.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii
« on: April 27, 2006, 04:49:04 PM »
"Wii just sounds like some exec was trying to hard to think up a name and I know it'll be a turn-off to the American gamer."

Okay you've said that a bunch of times now but have yet to provide any evidence. Like you said, we're all Nintendo fanboys here, what you "know" means jack.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii
« on: April 27, 2006, 02:58:43 PM »
He could just reuse his first E3 speech.

"I'm about kicking ass and taking names, and Wii... are about making games."

The emphasis was already in the right place, if I remember correctly.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii
« on: April 27, 2006, 01:43:16 PM »
On the flip side of the coin, I would love to be a videogame store employee on Wii's launch day. The stories alone...

Smash_Brother, you're thinking of this the wrong way. You could point at the system and ask them, "how do you pronounce that?" and then they'd be on the receiving end and then you could laugh together about it.

The point is that if it makes you uncomfortable you can turn it into something funny. If it doesn't make you uncomfortable, nothing's changed. I'm personally thinking of it as some sort of Chinese name right now.

This situation is exactly like Virgin Megastores were to me and my friends. We laughed about it but... entered them anyway, and now it's just another name.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii
« on: April 27, 2006, 10:57:29 AM »
Sorry, that counts as 2 out of 3 unless you hate laughing.

Your loss, I guess.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii
« on: April 27, 2006, 10:12:05 AM »
"The Rev is supposed to sell because it innovates and it breaks down barriers that have scared people away from gaming. It's not supposed to sell because it has such a goofy stupid name"

Well, don't you think the current overseriousness and arrogant elitism of videogames might be one of the barriers that have scared people away from gaming?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Madden Revolution - Brand New Game
« on: April 27, 2006, 09:59:12 AM »
So, what? Is this still called Madden Revolution, or Madden Wii, or Madden Wiivolution or what?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii
« on: April 27, 2006, 09:52:44 AM »
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If I have to explain a name to prevent people from making fun of it then it's a crappy name.

The point is that you don't have to explain the name because you want people to make fun of it.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii
« on: April 27, 2006, 09:19:03 AM »
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What?

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I will buy it no matter what, but how the hell can I promote the system to my friends when everytime i say the name i'm just going to laugh.

Do you not see the solution here? Nintendo will be treating it as a silly, immature joke. The whole point is that when you promote the system to your friends, they're going to laugh too, and because it made them laugh, they're going to remember it, and because they remember it, they'll want to try it out if they ever get the chance.

To the non-gamer, this says, go ahead, try playing a game. It's just silly, harmless fun, and you can laugh about it afterwards.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii
« on: April 27, 2006, 09:09:35 AM »
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Originally posted by: jasonditz

To be honest, I have absolutely no clue how the nongamer is going to feel about this name. It's a little silly and a little lame, but is that necessarily a bad thing from their perspective?

The way I see it, "a little silly and a little lame" is infinitely better than "yet another thing nerds take way too seriously." People who have never even thought about playing games before will find their humor and interest piqued by the name, and that can only be a good thing.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii
« on: April 27, 2006, 08:49:39 AM »
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Originally posted by: The OmenLet me get this straight...it's working because Nintendo fanboys are talking about it non stop?  Gee, who would have thought?  The point is, it won't work to expend the market, such as stealing Sony market share and the like.

If it's a joke, I say it's a great success.  If it's real, it's just really really stupid.

That's the point. It is a joke. It's just a joke that happens to be real.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii
« on: April 27, 2006, 08:39:20 AM »
Nintendo isn't going for cool, they're going for irreverently silly. Because really, what are games about?

And it's working. Say what you will, but "Wii" will be used in a lot more animated conversations and reach a lot more people than "Revolution". If nothing else, you know countless people will say "I'm going to play with my Wii now" just for the hell of it.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii
« on: April 27, 2006, 08:18:01 AM »
Hahah. I love the name, it's so stupid and awkward and embarrassing to everyone else that it now has a special place in my heart.

Of course now the Wiimote is much more obviously phallic than before.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: What do you want in Smash Bros. Revolution?
« on: April 26, 2006, 09:28:06 PM »
Except that the reason multiplayer is ahead by a healthy 200:1 ratio is that singleplayer sucks so much.

Sorry, I don't condone making it suck even more. It can be salvaged into a healthy, fun experience... adventure mode was a step in the right direction, but singleplayer needs more work, not less.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official DS Sales Thread
« on: April 26, 2006, 09:12:21 PM »
I still don't understand what happened to FFXII. I'm sure there's a logical explanation, maybe a shortage or industrial sabotage or another Godzilla attack or something.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Famitsu-ton! (Elebits by Konami!)
« on: April 26, 2006, 06:49:10 PM »
Whereas if it had online that would completely cover up its mediocrity and infuse it with all the qualities inherent in a good game.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Famitsu-ton!
« on: April 26, 2006, 05:29:07 PM »
... in which particular case Ubi's known for the utter lack of depth of its characters.

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General Gaming / RE: SEGA anounces one game each day starting tomorrow until May 10
« on: April 26, 2006, 02:06:14 PM »
animecyberrat is on The List.

Previous members of The List include the Metroid Prime Hunters dev team.

What, didn't hear what happened to them?

Exactly.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: EGM super-psyched about Rev! "It will be a winner"
« on: April 26, 2006, 09:39:38 AM »
This is obviously a late april fools joke or stupid prank.

Even if it were true, I mean, come on. They just put that cover in there because they know nintendo fanboys will snap it up in droves. The actual article is probably just "haha, fooled you suckers, the Revolution is Nintendo's worst console yet".

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Rumour: Nunchuck to have Dual 3D motion sensing
« on: April 25, 2006, 09:09:23 PM »
Sure seem to be a lot of hormones flying around the boards these days.

Doesn't it make you proud that fellow readers are going through puberty... they grow up so fast.

Anyway, this would be cool for double-controller games because you wouldn't necessarily need a second controller.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Famitsu-ton!
« on: April 25, 2006, 09:06:04 PM »
Maybe the games just really suck and aren't worth talking about.

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