Would you like to play with my "wee"?

[RayB]

OK so Nintendo announced that their next console will be called "Wii". Pronounced "wee", not "why".

http://revolution.nintendo.com/

Already it's causing alot of uproar. Lot's of people hate it. Lot's of people making "wee" jokes. ("I'm playing with my Wii!")

DISCUSS.

(but to set the mood, watch this: )

[sodapopinski]

Pretty pathetic name. Maybe that's the understatement of the year though. If its a revolutionary game system perhaps they might have considered,  i dunno, maybe Nintendo revolution. If this system is all its cracked up to be, it certainly summarizes it up nicely.

[pointdablame]

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=53203.0

[SNAAKE]

haha EWW !

worst console name ever

[SithMaster]

your topic title was and is misleading.  people are expecting one thing and then you dont deliver.

every code name nintendo has had like for gamecube it was the dolphin or something was bad and but the revolution made sense.  now they ruined it because everyone thinks of it as revolution.  this makes me tired.

[AtomSmasher]

Gotta love penny-arcade

[RayB]

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=53203.0

Oops! Now there's a forum I never set foot in!

[nullb0y]

heh u mean the revolution is the wii? ugh morons i thought that wii would be a dumb working name for the next system
omfg the revolution was a good name this isnt a joke or something?
i was pretty shure the nintendo rep said revolution was the final name

[shmokes]

I already posted this in the other thread, but this thread probably gets mroe exposure, so....

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.