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2006-04-27, 22:35

So is it going to be okay if I play with my best friend's Wii?
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2006-04-27, 22:43

Heads up on tomorrow's Penny Arcade headline: "Whence Wii". Looks like they've got the news squarely in their sights, and are zooming in for the kill.
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2006-04-27, 23:03

Crap name. But it doesn't matter, this will be the most popular of the next generation of consoles. Besides, no matter what Nintendo calls them, it'll always just be Nintendo. I never went to a friends house to play their Nintendo Entertainment System or their Nintendo 64 it was always just Nintendo. It's just assumed it's the latest system and if it isn't it doesn't really matter because you can always play some version of Mario.

Anyway, the can call it what they want - I'm buying regardless.
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2006-04-27, 23:04

Wii Inaction man, wii?
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2006-04-27, 23:09

I kept thinking everyone was misspelling 'Nintendo Wifi' all day.

That said, I like the name Wii.
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2006-04-27, 23:14

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I said "oh you know, stupid stuff like "now I have to go play with my wee" and he said "wtf? that doesn't even make any sense, people are dumb"

I agrii.
Oh okay, I guess I'm just a stupid idiot then. If Microsoft made anything with the name "Wee" I guarantee you this thread would be 900 posts long by now. The fact that Nintendo has a loyal following similar to Apple keeps that from happening.
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2006-04-28, 01:10

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Oh okay, I guess I'm just a stupid idiot then. If Microsoft made anything with the name "Wee" I guarantee you this thread would be 900 posts long by now. The fact that Nintendo has a loyal following similar to Apple keeps that from happening.

No. And what type of an argument is that?

The fact that there is nothing wrong with the name is what should keep that from happening.
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2006-04-28, 01:48

The name sounds like is a childhood euphamism for urine. I'd say that's something wrong with it. Furthermore, it doesn't sound like a game console, or anything I'd be interested in buying for that matter. Hearing the product name of "Wii" is only slightly more interesting to me than hearing "My Little Pony."

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2006-04-28, 02:09

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The name sounds like is a childhood euphamism for urine. I'd say that's something wrong with it. Furthermore, it doesn't sound like a game console, or anything I'd be interested in buying for that matter. Hearing the product name of "Wii" is only slightly more interesting to me than hearing "My Little Pony."

I think you're nuts, and I think Nintendo is nuts.
It is not supposed to sound like a game console. The concept of a game console is alienating to people, immediately when you talk about video games and game consoles and stuff people think of unproductive nerds being anti-social. Nintendo is trying to change that conception, by giving people a system that anyone can easily sit down and enjoy in a way that doesn't require them to learn a bunch of buttons and rules and systems. That is their strategy, for better or worse, and the name fits perfectly with that strategy. They might fail, so be it, that doesn't change the effectiveness of the name, it does exactly what it is trying to do.

As for it being a childhood euphemism for urine. Who cares? honestly, who uses that? and again who cares? Do you really want to sit around cracking piss jokes? Also, people are trying to connote it to be phallic, but it isn't. The 'insults' people are applying to it are pointless and trivial with no weight in anything that matters. Nintendo knows this, they are not stupid. There is a lot more to the marketing and sales world than appealing to a bunch of impossible to satisfy nerds. Nintendo is not aiming for the so-called 'hardcore' gamer market, which is a niche within a niche, and the people they are aiming for aren't going to get hung up over something as trivial as the name Wii.

It's fun to make jokes about it, I have been doing it too, but if you seriously think that this name is going to make or break the system, or that anyone other than hardcore gamer nerds on the internet actually care, you're fooling yourself.
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2006-04-28, 02:26

Hell, Nintendo knew full well what people would think of the name, and just look at how much everyone talks about it? Any publicity is good publicity. Now EVERYONE knows about it.

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2006-04-28, 03:22

Well people might end up calling it the "W" "eye"

Which in England is the 'Womens Institute'.

They might be corrected to "W" "eye" "eye" by some people. Which sounds a bit like a cokney slang phrase for "Here comes something.." i.e. "Eye" "Eye"

It does leave a lot of openings for great tacky Dixons / Best Buy marketting at Christmas..

Little girl/boy standing with their legs crossed, bouncing up and down in an electrical store..
Assistant asks if he can help, and mother says "She needs a Wii".
Cut to splash screen.. "Will your kids be having a Wii this Christmas?"

However... Luca...

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This is absolutely the most retarded thing I've ever heard. This is ten times worse than renaming the "PowerBook" the "MacBook Pro," no... make that a hundred.
Nope. Sorry. Nothing excuses, or is worse than "the name that shall not be said".

But I like the logo.. And once we get over the juvenile jokes it's probably gonna be one of those logos / names that sticks. Heck, we're all talking about it..

I do like the comment in one article about the fact that it's only us jeveniles on the internet that are finding this so funny...

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2006-04-28, 04:20

so does this mean that Revoltuion fanboy will now become Wii fanboy?

haha
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2006-04-28, 04:26

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so does this mean that Revoltuion fanboy will now become Wii fanboy?

haha
Nope.. WiiBoys!
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2006-04-28, 06:14

Or Wiiman?

:smokey:
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2006-04-28, 06:15

Can someone mock up a Super Mario WiiMan, or WiiBoy!

'scates..?
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2006-04-28, 06:44

It may *sound* like the word some might associate with piss but to me, it sounds kinda asian. The 2 "i"s at the end do it. Am I the only one who sees it that way?
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2006-04-28, 06:49

Asian languages don't do a lot of double 'i' sounds. They don't have very many long sounds..

It's generally (with the languages I know) either a hard short "i" or an "e".

To me, I think it is more influenced by the trendy 'internet' 'i' that everyone is using now.. and a little bit of Sony's font stylings.. Like the new Walkman Phone for example..

But then it's a well known joke (particularly in Japan in programming circles) that the whole of Nintendo are smoking something all of the time, and when they are not smoking they are on acid! I could never get a job there though! Bummer! But who knows where their ideas come from.. More than 50% of their ideas are quite unique, and actually insanely clever. I think that, and I am not a Nintnedo WiiBoy in any way shape of form! In fact if anything I am the opposite..

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2006-04-28, 06:49

I agree with you Dr. Phile. I think not only that it sounds asian, but that only a non-native English speaking company would use that name. Perhaps insufficient research was done into the connotations of that name.
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2006-04-28, 07:30

Ok, you must agree Wii is better than what the penny arcade toon picked out.



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2006-04-28, 07:33

turbulentfurball,

I actually think that sounding asian is a *good* thing. Asian is hip these days. And I loooooveeee me some asians.
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2006-04-28, 07:37

I couldn't agree more. I also love the far-east's current obsession with the coolness that is the English language. Engrish is one of my favourite sites. After AN of course
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2006-04-28, 07:37

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2006-04-28, 07:39

That's funny! Another site to bookmark.. Thanks Brad.
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2006-04-28, 08:09

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It is not supposed to sound like a game console. The concept of a game console is alienating to people, immediately when you talk about video games and game consoles and stuff people think of unproductive nerds being anti-social. Nintendo is trying to change that conception, by giving people a system that anyone can easily sit down and enjoy in a way that doesn't require them to learn a bunch of buttons and rules and systems. That is their strategy, for better or worse, and the name fits perfectly with that strategy. They might fail, so be it, that doesn't change the effectiveness of the name, it does exactly what it is trying to do.

As for it being a childhood euphemism for urine. Who cares? honestly, who uses that? and again who cares? Do you really want to sit around cracking piss jokes? Also, people are trying to connote it to be phallic, but it isn't. The 'insults' people are applying to it are pointless and trivial with no weight in anything that matters. Nintendo knows this, they are not stupid. There is a lot more to the marketing and sales world than appealing to a bunch of impossible to satisfy nerds. Nintendo is not aiming for the so-called 'hardcore' gamer market, which is a niche within a niche, and the people they are aiming for aren't going to get hung up over something as trivial as the name Wii.

It's fun to make jokes about it, I have been doing it too, but if you seriously think that this name is going to make or break the system, or that anyone other than hardcore gamer nerds on the internet actually care, you're fooling yourself.
There's no need to try and convince me. I am certain there is something wrong with your head and the more arguments I hear about why "Wii" is a good name, the less I like it.

I'm actually thinking the name might drive me away from buying one. Or at least it might possibly be a deciding factor if I'm on the fence.
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2006-04-28, 08:27

If they come out with an excellent ad campaign, and push the Wii as (we), as in many people playing together on their system and having a blast, I think they'll be fine.

If they don't do something to put an image of what Wii means in people's minds though, this is going to hurt them.

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2006-04-28, 08:32

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Dammit! I don't understand it.

Was it somethng about Vagina™ being the runner up?
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2006-04-28, 08:34

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Dammit! I don't understand it.

Was it somethng about Vagina™ being the runner up?
I'm guessing that they're hinting that the Wii name is so stupid, Nintendo may as well have called it the Vagina.
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2006-04-28, 08:42

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Dammit! I don't understand it.

Was it somethng about Vagina™ being the runner up?
Wii == Wee == Penis. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_wee and note the redirect)

The joke is that Nintendo passed up the vagina name for the penis name.
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2006-04-28, 08:42

I'm waiting for the handheld. You just know it's going to be the WeeWii.
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2006-04-28, 08:43

Sounds plausible.

With those controllers, vagina might have been a better name.

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