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What do you think of the name?

Its totally fucking awesome. Easy to remember, short...
3 (8.3%)
Wii'll get used to it
5 (13.9%)
Better than Revolution *fnar*
2 (5.6%)
Meh, Revolution still sounds better than it
8 (22.2%)
This just proves Nintendos disgusting urine fetish
1 (2.8%)
I <3 Nintendo Go!!!! LOL!
0 (0%)
"I don't care that much, but the North American consumer base will, because the childish appearance is off-putting to our culture and the name might very well kill Nintendo's North American sales, which is something that would suck..." - Hadriel
2 (5.6%)
"I think it fucking sucks" - Zeality
15 (41.7%)

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2006, 11:20:27 am »
All in all, everyone will get used to it. I mean seriously, they couldn't come up with a better name for XBOX then tagging on the 360 after it? And it still sucks compared to PS2 (Just think when PS3 comes out :shock:). There's not a sports game you CANNOT play on XBooox . . . but seriously, the new Nintendo console will do alright.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2006, 12:26:01 pm »
Quote from: Chrono'99 on April 28, 2006, 08:17:06 am
"Oui" means yes in French. This is seriously dumb.

"Non... non.... OUI."

Probably what Nintendo is hoping for.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2006, 05:36:28 pm »
The "official" name doesn't matter to me, I will call it anyway I want. Most people at my school and free time don't even know what Nintendo is, nor do they know the SNES or even NES.
About the "Wii", in german it's "Wie" which can have be alot of different meaning, for example:
-"Eh?" (That's really what my dictionairy says)
or -"how", "as", "un-/like", etc.
Not that I like the name, but I don't like "Game Cube"(even if more fitting) either.

Why not calling it the "Nintendo Eh?"? That's what most People will say anyways.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2006, 09:03:37 pm »
I went w/the Zeality quote because that's what I first thought of, but the one about the Revolution sounded better than it also fits. Ever since Nintendo got rid of the "Ultra" suffix name from the 64, I was always dissapointed in their console names. I didn't care that they called it the "64" (which actually is a stupid name and to many a consumer it doesn't make sense), but the fact that they changed it was a real pisser. It felt like a liniage. Super begat Regular and Ultra begat Super and so on would the trend continue...But w/e.

Quote from: Burning Zeppelin on April 28, 2006, 01:41:38 am
And Famicon sounded totally better than SNES or NES.

I dunno about that...I mean, Famicom extra wouldn't make sense in many of the other markets...Since it wasn't them manufacturing the systems in other markets...It was, of course, a more family-friendly name...

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Yippy, the new Family-computer just came out!

It was a very '80s name.

But then again, as what's-his-face said, "What's in a name..." and all that rot. If the system's good, it'll do good regardless of it's stupid name. So it'll probably do ok or maybe a little sucky...
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #19 on: April 29, 2006, 01:13:47 am »
Whoops, FamicoM.
So, Oui in French is Yes. Wie in German is Eh. Wee in English is piss. Whats next, Wii in Japanese meaning Nintendo  :lol: Oh God I crack myself up...
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #20 on: April 29, 2006, 04:17:42 am »
Best comment I've overheard yet from The Internets on this one:

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People reacted in many ways (some have argued that Nintendo marketers have been smoking some "wiid".)
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2006, 11:36:33 am »
Quote from: Burning Zeppelin on April 29, 2006, 01:13:47 am
Whoops, FamicoM.
So, Oui in French is Yes. Wie in German is Eh. Wee in English is piss. Whats next, Wii in Japanese meaning Nintendo  :lol: Oh God I crack myself up...
Wee in english is a penis.  Your thinking of 'Pee'.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #22 on: April 29, 2006, 01:16:52 pm »
In portuguese it sounds sort of "Ui", which would be like an "Ouch" in english, sort of a pain exclamation... And that's pretty much how this new name felt... A kick to the guts >.>

Not that I really care about it... but well..
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #23 on: April 29, 2006, 01:41:45 pm »
Wie in German is "how". I was forced to take the damned accel. courses in school. Am I really going to need to know german for the future? Hell no.

But look, let's just wait and see what happens with the Wii-unit :)
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #24 on: April 29, 2006, 03:06:43 pm »
"Wee" in Scottish (not really a language, but a regional dialect of English, let's say) is little.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #25 on: April 29, 2006, 03:16:39 pm »
My father's secretary's daughter's husband's surname is "Wii," except spelled differently. He served in Operation Desert Storm as a second lieutenant out of Twentynine Palms! ^_^
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #26 on: April 29, 2006, 03:49:03 pm »
Quote from: Burning Zeppelin on April 29, 2006, 01:13:47 am
Whoops, FamicoM.

No, no, I'm pretty sure the m wasn't capitolized...;)

Does "Twenty-nine Palms" sound like the title to some gay gangbang pr0n to anyone else? Not that I know anything about gay gangbang pr0n mind you...IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE THAT!!! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!! Or, wait, I brought it up? Nevermind then...
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #27 on: April 29, 2006, 07:36:15 pm »
To hell with the name. It'll play Super Metroid; 360 and PS3 won't. They could call it the "Radical_Dreamer is an asshole" and I'd still buy it because, just on the back library, it has a larger selection of games I want to play (or replay as the case may be) than PS3 and 360 put together.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #28 on: April 29, 2006, 11:28:03 pm »
Quote from: Sentenal on April 29, 2006, 11:36:33 am
Quote from: Burning Zeppelin on April 29, 2006, 01:13:47 am
Whoops, FamicoM.
So, Oui in French is Yes. Wie in German is Eh. Wee in English is piss. Whats next, Wii in Japanese meaning Nintendo  :lol: Oh God I crack myself up...
Wee in english is a penis.  Your thinking of 'Pee'.

You're thinking of a "wee wee." Wee is pee.
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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #29 on: April 30, 2006, 01:55:27 am »
Quote from: Ramsus on April 29, 2006, 11:28:03 pm
Quote from: Sentenal on April 29, 2006, 11:36:33 am
Quote from: Burning Zeppelin on April 29, 2006, 01:13:47 am
So, Oui in French is Yes. Wie in German is Eh. Wee in English is piss. Whats next, Wii in Japanese meaning Nintendo  :lol: Oh God I crack myself up...
Wee in english is a penis.  Your thinking of 'Pee'.

You're thinking of a "wee wee." Wee is pee.
Yeah, you tell 'em.
Quote from: V_Translanka on April 29, 2006, 03:49:03 pm
Quote from: Burning Zeppelin on April 29, 2006, 01:13:47 am
Whoops, FamicoM.

No, no, I'm pretty sure the m wasn't capitolized...;)
No, it was.
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Quote from: Radical_Dreamer on April 29, 2006, 07:36:15 pm
To hell with the name. It'll play Super Metroid; 360 and PS3 won't. They could call it the "Radical_Dreamer is an asshole" and I'd still buy it because, just on the back library, it has a larger selection of games I want to play (or replay as the case may be) than PS3 and 360 put together.
Too bad about the emulators that will be released on PS3 and 360. I'm still with Wii. I mean, Super Monkey Ball Wii and NiGHTS, not to mention Elebits...gold. And yeah, the Nintendo games...*cough*
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