Topic: uh-oh: Nintendo reconsidering Wii?

[wandering]

In a few years no one will notice. Except stand-up comedians.

'What's the deal with Wii? Who thought it was a good idea to make a pronoun a noun? We is coming! That doesn't sound very grammatically correct to me!'  

[Renny]

No one will notice the Wii? Maybe not.

Don't read that aloud.

[eljefe]

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Originally posted by: mantidor
Im calling it the nostros, is an abreviattion of nosotros, we in spanish, and sounds like a million times better...yeah Im not kidding anyone, the name is simply unavoidable and unchangable, its the Wii... urgh...  it sounds so awful!

That would've been a cool name (but its a little difficult for the average English speaker.)

I might call it that
tho.

Its very inclusive, partly cause it sounds like nuestros

which means "ours".

[mantidor]

Yeah I wouldnt have called it like that. I really thought that they were going to call it the RS (which I think is bad, but now it looks extremely good). Its a simple acronym, the "arse" jokes are way better than the "wee" jokes because they arent as obvious, and also it relates with the DS in the public's mind, which is a very good thing given the success of the handheld and how the handheld has the same direction that the rev with the "disrputive market", "new way to play games" and "atract non gamers" thing.

[eljefe]

RS would match the DS

but would suffer the same "flaws" that some people see in DS.

Basically, if we could have thought of it, it wasn't disruptive enough for Nintendo.

Hence, the name Wii.

[mantidor]

But it wouldve make their marketing efforts easier and thus the inversion lower, it was almost a sure thing. The disruptive in the console is the method of input, not the name, the only disrupted are us, the ones who didnt need disruption.

[RiskyChris]

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Originally posted by: mantidor
But it wouldve make their marketing efforts easier and thus the inversion lower, it was almost a sure thing. The disruptive in the console is the method of input, not the name, the only disrupted are us, the ones who didnt need disruption.

That's bull.  It's much easier to market a name that people immediately take notice of.

[The Omen]

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That's bull. It's much easier to market a name that people immediately take notice of.

Not if they have to ask at least two additional questions about a name they think is ridiculous.  By the way, it is possible to take notice of a great name too.

[Artimus]

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Originally posted by: The Omen

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That's bull. It's much easier to market a name that people immediately take notice of.

Not if they have to ask at least two additional questions about a name they think is ridiculous.  By the way, it is possible to take notice of a great name too.

That's exactly what I'm not understanding about the "pro" argument. All the supposed things that are good about the Wii could be found in a name that doesn't have such huge downsides.

[GoldenPhoenix]

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Originally posted by: Artimus

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Originally posted by: The Omen

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That's bull. It's much easier to market a name that people immediately take notice of.

Not if they have to ask at least two additional questions about a name they think is ridiculous.  By the way, it is possible to take notice of a great name too.

That's exactly what I'm not understanding about the "pro" argument. All the supposed things that are good about the Wii could be found in a name that doesn't have such huge downsides.

What name has potential to have a more symbolic visual appeal than Wii?  The two "iis" not only apply to the word as a whole but also can be used to symbolically portray two individuals playing together (Like the trailer showed). In addition, I believe the reason for those two additional questions is so people have something to go off of without already predisposing the person they are asking to favor their own point of view. The questions are meant to provide an unbiased assessment of people's true thoughts of the name, nothing more, nothing less.