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delta88:
:applaud: :applaud: :cheers: :applaud: :applaud:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 28, 2006, 05:38:12 pm ---I thought it was pretty lame until I read this:
Wedbush Morgan Securities' Michael Pachter was more mixed in his assessment. "My initial reaction, of course, is that the name is dumb," he bluntly stated. "However, upon reflection, I thought that the name Game Boy was dumb, REALLY thought that the name Xbox was dumb, and can't even recall my reaction to PlayStation. Let's face it, devices with cool names like Dreamcast and Gizmondo fail, and the lame names seem to do well."
He has a point. I remember the first time I heard Xbox I was like, "WHAT THE ---auto-censored---?" And I'd add to that list of success stories with really really lame names: iPod, Operation Enduring Freedom, caulk (pronounced "Kok"). Wii will not sound stupid if it's successful. It'll just sound normal, like coke or pepsi or honda or kawasaki or WiFi or any other household name. Seriously, Playstation sounds like a Fisher-Price infant toy. Except it doesn't, cos it's a household name now.
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versapak:
I never thought Xbox or playstation were lame names, or gameboy for that matter either, but seriously...
There is lame, and then there is lame to the point of being another freakin name for piss, or half of the name of a little willy.
Playin with your Wii is just NEVER going to be the cool thing.
It will have no bearing on the systems ability to play games, and really probably won't matter one way or the other as far as sales go, but I just don't see Wii being the name it sticks with.
How many people call their Xbox 360 an Xbox 360? I am guessing that very few do. Most people just call it a 360. Wii is __insert derogatory here___. <==PERIOD
Anyone thinking otherwise is seriously reachin just do to an over abundance of N love.
nipsmg:
C H E E Z Y :lame: :lame: :lame:
Dave_K.:
Nintendo continues to win the underdog vote. Everyone laughed at the DS when it first came out and drooled over the PSP...look who's laughing now. Focusing on the creativity and advancement of games and not just the technology around it (graphics horsepower/UMD/BlueRay...) is what will win the next gen console war.
Stingray:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 28, 2006, 05:38:12 pm --- Let's face it, devices with cool names like Dreamcast and Gizmondo fail, and the lame names seem to do well."
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I don't see how either of those names are cooler than Playstation, X-Box or even Wii. Come to think of it, most of my toys have stupid names. Well, everything but my Strokemaster 6000.
-S