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Nintendo....Wii?
Ozymandias:
That was a damned good read and analysis of Nintendo's strategy.
Over all the furor about the name, I never even considered the most striking part:
It's not called the Nintendo Wii.
Every other Nintendo produce ever made has been the "Nintendo Entertainment System," the "Nintendo 64," the "Nintendo GameCube"...
This is just...Wii.
That just blew my freaking mind.
est:
--- Quote from: will: wanton sex god ---why dont you get a playstation 3.
--- End quote ---
Because the ps3 looks to be utter shit.
I was going to wait until the prices came down & get a 360, and depending on the price of the Revolution get one either before or after the 360. The controller didn't catch me at first, but then I started to think about how it could be used & I warmed to it.
I could take a really shithouse name if it wasn't so obviously a bad choice. Like, if they have come up with some kind of weird-ass name. People are throwing out "Dreamcast" and "Playstation" and "XBox" as "bad names" also. It's not that it's a "bad name". The issue is that it is obvious to pretty much everyone who speaks english that calling your system after a slang term for urine is a really stupid idea.
I will not warm to "Wii". It will be something that I'll have to endure if I buy the system. Every time I look at the system I'll be reminded that it was named by a bunch of dudes who either didn't speak english & didn't care about what the name meant in my section of the market's language, or that they were fucking idiots.
I'm pretty sure I don't want to buy something from someone either that arrogant or that stupid.
Trollstormur:
--- Quote from: Storm Rider ---Why don't they just keep it the Revolution?
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1. because they're competing against a world of sexy named electronic gaming. PCs, MACs, Xbox360s, PS3s, they had to some up with something they thought was sexual which brings me to
2. they're japanese, and they thought Wii would be a good name for a many-penis'd tentacle beast that will dump load after load of pixely semen into their gaping eyesockets. the japs are into that kinda shit, I dunno, I kinda blame the post WWII US occupation.
Switchblade:
--- Quote from: est ---
--- Quote from: will: wanton sex god ---why dont you get a playstation 3.
--- End quote ---
Because the ps3 looks to be utter shit.
--- End quote ---
Speaking as a student of games development, that's horseshit right there. Of the three "next-gen" consoles, the PS3, to me, is by far and away the most impressive, and likely to be the biggest success and the most entertaining of the three. It's also the only one I'm seriously considering buying. I won't go into the details of that argument, though, as this is not the time or place.
Anyway, the Wii (as we are apparently calling it nowadays) - I don't much mind the name change. It hasn't affected the odds of my buying the console (tiny, as I can't afford it, prefer PC gaming, and am not a huge fan of nintendo games anyway). Sure, I can think of dozens of potential other names that I Would have gone with, but I'm not a Japanese marketing director, building a console for a market where the majority of players are still Japanese.
The name's a little cute for my tastes, and maybe a little gimmicky, but I wouldn't say it ruins the console - it's still the same system under the hood. If you don't like the name, print out a sticker that says "Revolution" and attach it over the word "Wii", problem solved.
In other words: don't judge a book by its cover. The Wii remains the second most impressive console on the upcoming market (in my opinion) and simply having a daft name isn't a good reason for not buying it.
est:
Ok sorry, allow me to elaborate quickly on my PS3 stance: the processor(s) is/are "technically superior" (though debated), but the graphics unit is not. Devs are already complaining about the relative difficulty developing games on it, and I've seen some specs recently saying that the 360 uses less system resources to run its OS than the PS3 does. I've also seen a couple of quotes from industry sources saying that Blu-Ray is probably gonna tank just like basically every other Sony proprietary format, so they are delaying for no reason.
Meanwhile Nihilist has been telling me that Sony are already in pretty dire straits at the moment financially, and what with recent reports stating that Sony will be taking a bath to the tune of $USD 900 million on the PS3 launch I really wouldn't want to be a Sony shareholder at the moment.
Also, Sony are fucking cunts and I won't be giving them my money.
Better? :)
I'm not even saying I'm definitely going to be getting a 360. I'm just saying that at the moment the PS3 seems very unappealling to me.
All that said, I would love for Sony to prove me wrong (well, and stop being cunts, I guess). I'd love for the PS3 to be very very good, because see, I have a large catalogue of PS2 games just ready and waiting for a sexy system to run them on in order to see if the graphics look better :)
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