He didn't like the name, either.Chris Morris has a talk with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto up at CNN Money. It has a few interesting comments from everyone's favorite game maker, including the perhaps startling revelation that Miyamoto wasn't too receptive of the Wii name initially, and prefered the old codename instead.
"When we first thought about it, myself and others felt that the name Revolution was very appropriate to what we were doing," Shigeru Miyamoto told me recently, "but [Revolution] is a name that was almost threatening to non-gamers. It wasn't acceptable. So we thought this was more friendly and inviting."
Also of note about the name is that it was finalized six months before it was announced to the world during the first week of May.
Further along in the article, Morris asked Miyamoto about his feelings on the PS3's "innovative" tilt-sensitive controller. Shiggy said that other Nintendo ideas have been swiped before, so it wasn't that shocking to him.
"That always seems to happen and we kind of expected it. It reinforces for us that we've been on the right path all along," he said. "We've gotten used to others copying what we do – and we're having a lot of fun with it. ... On the flipside, I suppose they must be worried about any other functionality we may announce."
Miyamoto also comments on the possible demand for Wii and the console's relative horsepower. Check out the article for the rest of the goods.
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