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"Hostile, you keep pointing out other 'odd' names that have gone on to be households, but you have yet to show or mention one apt example of a word being used for a product when it already has a negative connotation attached to it. Lets say it's Hatfield, don't you think people will think of ham first? What if it's Breyers? Ice Cream. What if it's brown eye? A big fat as*hole, and that's the problem. Name association, not the name itself. Jesus!"
Winnie the Pooh. Badcock Furniture. Dick Armey (okay, that one's not by choice, but still.) Personally, I think Nintendo could've called it anything and people probably would've found negative conotations.
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I'll have to agree with you on that one, the concept of a Revolution may only be popular in the United States, where we have romanticized ideologies on the word.
Hmm - I actually wasn't thinking that, but you're absolutley right.
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Hey guys, in nerd class at school these goons were talking about next gen and pretty much everything they said was wrong, which means they're pretty mainstream (they were all self-addmitted PS2 fanboys) when they saw in the internet that the Rev was now called the Wii. One guy liked it, one was indifferent, and the other disliked it. Nobody lauhged, and nobody made a pee joke.
So uhh, yeah!
oh, this is very, very nice. I've been waiting to hear what non-hardcore teenagers thought of the name. That the reaction is not 'OMG WTF that's the most laughably horrible name ever' means that nothing is objectively wrong with it...and, most likely, all of the hoopla on the net has more to do with the fact that people were really attached to 'revolution' than anything.
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Anyway (sorry this post is turning into a novel). I've slept on the name and...I still think it's good. But, I've come to the conclusion that the reasoning behind it is bad. I know that's kind of the opposite of where a lot of people are at, but whatever. "Let's use the word 'we' but replace the 'e' with 2 i's! Because they'll represent togetherness and the revmotes! And also because ipods are cool!" Dumb. Why do I like the name? Because I like silly names. It's fun to say and spell, and it looks good visually.
...Maybe a good thing to compare it to is Yoda. Yoda is cool made up name, right? But imagine if, in an alternate universe where Star Wars doesn't exist, Yoda is the name of a softdrink. "Let's use the word 'soda' but replace the 's' with a y! To represent 'You'! And also because yo-yos are cool!" In this universe, the name Yoda, while still deliciously weird, would be slightly less cool.
In any case. It seems like people are slowly coming around to the name. Which is nice. Also, I got some semi-compliments from people for my cheery, overlong defense of the mighty wii yesterday. Also nice, thanks.
Topic: Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii (Read 100437 times)
