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What do you think of the name "Wii"?
It sucks 31%  31%  [ 26 ]
It sucks 31%  31%  [ 26 ]
It rules 15%  15%  [ 13 ]
It rules 15%  15%  [ 13 ]
Don't know/Don't care 4%  4%  [ 3 ]
Don't know/Don't care 4%  4%  [ 3 ]
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01 May 2006, 3:59 pm

Well, Nintendo just renamed the name of their upcoming console from "Revolution" to "Wii" (pronounced Wee). Read about it here: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/27/1625208. I think the name sucks 'cause it sounds like a synonym for urine or penis and thus a target for teasing by owners of other consoles (i.e. I played with my Wii all night). Besides, most people won't be even able to pronounce it ("Nintendo ... Why?"). I'm still planning to buy it though.
What do you guys think?



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01 May 2006, 6:19 pm

If I somehow get stuck with a baby, I'll name it Nintendo Wii. Sounds like a jedi...



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01 May 2006, 6:29 pm

It's a really stupid name. Sounds like 'wee'.



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01 May 2006, 8:15 pm

I personally liked the name Revolution. It was unique, and had a nice ring to it. Wii is alright, yes, it is a bit corny sounding, and enables a person to make plenty of phallic and bathroom jokes, but since when have console names been good. We have things like the "Xbox", or the playstation, which sounds like a 5 year old's playset. The wii will still interest me, regardless of its' name. As they say, never judge a book by its' cover.



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01 May 2006, 8:19 pm

What a dorky name! :roll:
"Revolution" was good.



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02 May 2006, 12:45 am

Totally sucks.



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02 May 2006, 3:11 am

It makes me laugh.


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02 May 2006, 7:53 am

That sounds very juvenile, in my opinion. :?



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02 May 2006, 11:58 am

Ok, let's hope for a name change. What parent is going to say yes when their kids ask for "Wii," knowing how it's pronounced?

I was mad enough when a new system was announced less than 2 months after I had gotten a game cube....



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03 May 2006, 11:01 am

Which system was that?


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03 May 2006, 7:27 pm

God bless the marketing department that came up with that name. They were obviously working with the intention of making millions of gamers laugh their asses off.


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03 May 2006, 9:11 pm

Well it seems to me that they should have stuck with revolution considering their target audience isnt likely to understand Wii (being so young.)


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04 May 2006, 4:22 pm

They spent so much time trying to give players a more emersive experience, that they forgot about giving the darn thing a decent name. :?



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04 May 2006, 5:53 pm

It should use DVDs instead of disks.



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23 Nov 2006, 11:38 pm

I think it has a cool name; they probably decided on it because their marketing system of trying to get more people to play their video games means that there probably won't be only one person playing so they named it the Nintendo Wii.



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23 Nov 2006, 11:54 pm

Despite the fact that I pick Sony over Nintendo, I have this to say:

Wiiva la Revolution.


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