Nintendo Wii

[SirPoonga]

Giving you guys a heads up.
The Revolution is now the Wii.
http://revolution.nintendo.com/

[versapak]

I had to double check my calendar when I first saw this news, so as to make sure I didn't accidentally go back in time to April Fool's Day.


What in the F to the U to the DGE was Nintendo thinking?



This is EASILY the worst console name in the history of consoles. "Hey man... You wanna come over and play with my Wii?"



I guess they did this for all the people that didn't realise they lost touch with reality during the Cube era. There can be no denying it now.

[odysseyroc]

 

[GGKoul]

WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!

[pointdablame]

This is such a bad name for a game system.  Think of it

"hey mom, I wanna Wii"

"hey guys, wanna come over later and play some Wii"

"let wii"


God.... its just too easy.  Why would they do that.. they finally had a good name for a system with the Revolution.

[SOAPboy]

meh i like it.. Revolution was, kinda lame as well..

[versapak]

meh i like it.. Revolution was, kinda lame as well..

Well...

What can ya do? Some people just like playing with their Wii. I don't think anyone ever doubted that you were one of em.



I kid. I kid.


Maybe.



Revolution was the best name of any of the next gen consoles. Wii is as stupid a name as anyone could ever come up with for a console.

[GoPodular.com]

Nintendo hasn't had much creativity with names anyhow.

[clanggedin]

They can call it whatever they want. I'll still be there launch day to pick one up.

[mmmPeanutButter]

Nintendo hasn't had much creativity with names anyhow.

I'll definately agree with that. 

So, with that, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I really don't mind the name.

In fact, I may actually like it. 

[Hoagie_one]

I'm apathetic to the name change.  I'm all about, "Show me the money, the proof is in the pudding"

[JONTHEBOMB]

I like the name its short, sweet and simple.
And it's the sound you make when your cruising on a rollercoaster.
I think it's better to come up with a new name instead of increasing your name by one number.

[NIVO]

next is the portable version....Pii Wii

[GoPodular.com]

Does it play with itself?   

Sorry.  I couldn't resist.

[Havok]

Wii is the US name. In Japan, it's called the PUD.

[JonnyBoy]

I bet it's just a marketing gimmick to get us all to talk about the new system?

Excuse me while I look at some wii.

[Stingray]

Personally I thought Revolution was stupid. I also think that X-Box 360 and Playstation 3 are equally stupid. They can call it the Strokemaster 6000 if they want to. If the games are good, I'm there.

Wii is pretty damn awful though, this coming from a dedicated Nintendo fanatic.

-S

[mmmPeanutButter]

Wii will rock you

[shmokes]

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 ---fudgesicle---?"  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.

[nullb0y]

Personally I thought Revolution was stupid. I also think that X-Box 360 and Playstation 3 are equally stupid. They can call it the Strokemaster 6000 if they want to. If the games are good, I'm there.

Wii is pretty damn awful though, this coming from a dedicated Nintendo fanatic.

-S

you should send nintendo an e-mail sugesting Strokemaster 6000  as their replacemnt for the name wii

[delta88]

 

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.

[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 

[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]

Let's face it, devices with cool names like Dreamcast and Gizmondo fail, and the lame names seem to do well."

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

[shmokes]

I'm not at all sold on the idea of Nintendo regaining the number 1 position in the market.  I hope they do (cos I would love to see traditional gamepads go the way of the dinosaur), and I don't see it as impossible, but it still seems like a long shot to me. 

I think we're reaching a point of diminishing returns on the graphics in videogames.  There just doesn't seem to be the same kind of jump in graphics in the Xbox 360 that we saw from Atari 7800 to NES, NES to SNES, SNES to N64, N64/Playstation to Gamecube/PS2/Xbox. 

I've only played Xbox 360 at the Wal-Mart and Target kiosks, so I'm hardly qualified to make a sweeping comparison, but it seems like the games only look marginally better than Xbox games.  With the Wii being like twice as powerful as the Gamecube it makes it significantly more powerful than the original Xbox which hopefully means that the difference in graphics between the Xbox 360 and the Wii won't be that big, not because the Xbox 360 doesn't have a much more powerful processor, but because of the diminishing returns we are seing or that I am imagining that we are seeing.  Or maybe the real jump in the next generation will be in physics rather than graphics and that's the key piece of the puzze I'm missing...

Anyway, if the games look "good enough", the far lower price-point, the amazing controller, the considerably lower development costs (attracting third-party support), the general excitement among developers about the controller (also attracting third-parties), and the possibility of expanding the market beyond traditional gamers, all make the prospect of a reemergence of Nintendo as the market leader almost plausible.  I'm certainly not counting on it, and I really don't like the name (though the logo is actually quite cool, so long as you don't have to pronounce it), but I don't think it's impossible for them to best MS and Sony.

We'll see....less than two weeks to E3!

[freddykreuger666]

the only reason they called it wii cos their target audience is lets face it -
little kids, wii is a "kids" word and that just reflects how kinda babyish the games are. Heck i used to love the nintendo, till i got older and now its just crap. No new games all mario, mario or zelda. Make new characters plz
Wii is just a marketing gimmick to get ppl to talk about it, it got u talking about it so hey free publicity

[shmokes]

the only reason they called it wii cos their target audience is lets face it -
little kids, wii is a "kids" word and that just reflects how kinda babyish the games are. Heck i used to love the nintendo, till i got older and now its just crap. No new games all mario, mario or zelda. Make new characters plz
Wii is just a marketing gimmick to get ppl to talk about it, it got u talking about it so hey free publicity

That's half true and half utter nonsense.  Nintendo has an image problem that they've been trying to shake for some time.  Their problem isn't a lack of adult games, per se, it is a lack of third party support.  Nintendo, as a software company excels at making games that lean toward childish.  It's what they do.  The head of their software development is Miyamoto, the guy who created Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Pikmin, Smash Bros., etc.  He's brilliant and what he does is fanciful child stuff.  Nintendo has made serious strides to filling adult oriented games with 2nd party developers (Retro, Angel Studios, Rare) and with exclusivity contracts (Resident Evil 4, Killer 7), but they can't fill every genre themselves.  Their problem has been a lack of 3rd party support which is almost exclusively the byproduct of the stupid business decision to stick with cartridges on the N64, though admittedly is not entirely unrelated to their image problem. 

But that's where things are looking up with Wii.  From a development standpoint the Wii is really attractive.  It'll be far less expensive to make a Wii game than a 360 or PS3 game.  Also, developers have embraced the new controller and are really excited to work with it.  Also, with the cost of the console being so much lower than the competitors people will be more likely to pick it up, even if it's initially as a 2nd console, just to try out the new controllers.  The more people who own a Wii, the more 3rd parties will flock to the system to develop games for it.  The more 3rd Party developed games, the more consumers will want to pick one up.  The cycle just keeps feeding itself.  With 3rd parties come adult games.  It's that simple.  If there's a market, publishers will fill it.

Case in point, the only game we've seen so far for the Wii is Red Steel from Ubisoft.  Judging by the concept of the game I can hardly imagine that this will not be rated M.  It's a launch title.

Nintendo needs to stick to what it's good at.  Nintendogs, Animal Crossing, Zelda, Mario, Brain Age, Smash Brothers, Mario Tennis/Golf, Pikmin.......These are brilliant games.  These are what Nintendo is good at.  They need to attract other developer/publishers to the system to fill the void, rather than trying to half-ass it themselves.  So far it looks like they are playing the business end right on this one for the first time since the SNES.

[freddykreuger666]

nintendo used to be good at what they did
they just repeated the same games over and over again
i doubt 3rd parties will make games for it
cos well frankly the "wii" sucks
nintendo shud really put an age limit for who can buy/play their games
that should be under 12 years
to get customers to come to nintendo they need to vary their games and dont just try to keep their fanbase of the nes's/snes/cube/n64 etc to keep coming back for more mario and such.

[AtomSmasher]

nintendo used to be good at what they did
they just repeated the same games over and over again
i doubt 3rd parties will make games for it
cos well frankly the "wii" sucks
nintendo shud really put an age limit for who can buy/play their games
that should be under 12 years
to get customers to come to nintendo they need to vary their games and dont just try to keep their fanbase of the nes's/snes/cube/n64 etc to keep coming back for more mario and such.

I don't own a gamecube, but I don't think I could possibly disagree with this more.  Most of that was just your opinions, which I can't argue against, but as for doubting 3rd parties will make games for the Wii....well, that couldn't be more untrue.  Theres already around 30 3rd party developers that have plans for games on the Wii, and Nintendo is expecting to have around 20 launch titles with almost two-thirds of the launch titles from third party publishers.

I've never preordered a console system and pretty much always waited at least a year after they come out before buying one, but I plan on preordering the Wii and buying it on or around launch day.  I am definately not a nintendo fanatic, in fact I never played much or owned a SNES, N64, or Gamecube, but this is the first real innovation in home gaming in a long time, which is exciting.

[versapak]

I don't own a gamecube, but I don't think I could possibly disagree with this more.  Most of that was just your opinions, which I can't argue against, but as for doubting 3rd parties will make games for the Wii....well, that couldn't be more untrue.  Theres already around 30 3rd party developers that have plans for games on the Wii, and Nintendo is expecting to have around 20 launch titles with almost two-thirds of the launch titles from third party publishers.

I've never preordered a console system and pretty much always waited at least a year after they come out before buying one, but I plan on preordering the Wii and buying it on or around launch day.  I am definately not a nintendo fanatic, in fact I never played much or owned a SNES, N64, or Gamecube, but this is the first real innovation in home gaming in a long time, which is exciting.

The number of 3rd party developers in line BEFORE a console is even launched is hardly a sign of anything. The gamecube started with support also.


Nintendo isn't looking to cater to the same audiences as the other 2 main console developers. I applaud them for that, as they have done some really great stuff with the DS, but the drawback is that they limit their audience.

When a 3rd party developer is looking to make a title, and they want it to be multiconsole, the Wii(tarded) is going to be the one left out, because it is the odd one. It is going to be less powerful, and it is going to have a weird controller. The general idea is to get new and unique ideas flowing from devs, and to get games that are unique to what the console does offer, which will be great, but it will gurantee that the Wii(tarded) is going to secure a smaller audience than the competition.

Smaller audience = less 3rd party support.

If the console doesn't sell big, then the 3rd party support won't hang around, which is pretty much exactly what happened with the Gamecube.

The big N again decided to go with a gimped media, and they had an odd controller. Comparison after comparison was showing that the specialized controller was inferior for many games, and the sound and gfx sometimes suffered due to the smaller storage capabilities of the media. I'm sure a lot of people had purchased a GameCube as a second console, and when the choice for which console to buy that 3rd party game came around, they went with the other option. I am willing to bet the same thing is going to happen this time around.

Nintendo's gamble on the unique style of the Wii(tarded) won't be all that great, because it is their console, their Nintendo style, and that is just the direction they are planning to go, but other developers will be taking a big gamble making unique titles for it, and quite frankly... A lot of those 3rd party developers just don't have the kind of style or creativity that Nintendo has to make such things successful.

I will be buying the console, and I greatly look forward to the unique stuff that does come out for it, but I highly doubt it will ever be anything other than just the next consoles for playing Nintendo games.

[SlammedNiss]

something I found on google video...

[versapak]

something I found on google video...

lol


Just wasn't expecting that, and damn near sprayed my entire desk with coke.

[SOAPboy]

nintendo used to be good at what they did
they just repeated the same games over and over again
i doubt 3rd parties will make games for it
cos well frankly the "wii" sucks
nintendo shud really put an age limit for who can buy/play their games
that should be under 12 years
to get customers to come to nintendo they need to vary their games and dont just try to keep their fanbase of the nes's/snes/cube/n64 etc to keep coming back for more mario and such.

Think its time you picked up a cube, and mario strikers.. Kids game, sure! Fun as hell? Yup..

Oh, how about Eternal Darkness? Yep, one of the best survival horror games made..

Smash bros? Tons of fun with some friends and beer..


Actually own these devices before running off at the mouth about them..  Wii could flat out own and youll swallow your words later..

[Otraotaku]

wait for E3, then say what you wish... that is all!   

[ray_slup]

 time magazine article about the Wii          http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1191861-1,00.html

[AtomSmasher]

funny comic

[versapak]

Speaking of comic...


Never has there been a more appropriate time for that picture of Calvin taking a Wii.

[RayB]

I just watched a live webcast of Nintendo's E3 Press Conference... And now I don't give a sh!t about the name. This console is AWESOME!!!

[versapak]