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Poll: What do you think of the name Wii?

WTF!? that's terrible!

43%

[ 21 ]

Hmmm. it's okay, i guess....

12%

[ 6 ]

It's good.

25%

[ 12 ]

errmmm.... no comment....

18%

[ 9 ]

Total Votes : 48

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Posted on Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:58 pm

sparkz

Joined: 02 Feb 2006
Posts: 664

That's the thing... it's too easy to make toilet oriented jokes at it's expense.

but then i always say X-box when i mean a ladie's fun-zone... so i guess it's kinda the same thing... ish.

but, i'm okay with the name wii. it's not like nintendo were going to call it the gamecube2, gamecuboid or gamedodecahedron or anything. nintendo have been renowned for their innovation. and this is just another addition to the wierd yet wonderful catagory. like, when the DS came out everyone thought it was a gimmick and it wouldn't catch on. but now some of the best games, no possible on any other system are on the DS. stuff like Trauma center, Rub rabbits and warioware touched make the DS refreshing and new in a world where all i've seen of the PSP is near straight ports of ps2 games (trust me, i have a psp, i know)

but let's hear your opinion...

*edit: 100 posts! woo, yay and Hoopla*

Posted on Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:30 pm

PantsParty

Joined: 28 Nov 2005
Posts: 514

Nintendo can go to hell. The name is terrible.

Posted on Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:13 pm

Lucidess

Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Posts: 837

There are going to be cheap gags of "wii" for years to come.

Posted on Mon May 01, 2006 11:53 am

Lightbringer

Joined: 29 Jan 2006
Posts: 293

I'd say it's a brilliant name. The hardware's name is almost completely inconsequencial as far as it's performance goes, so people won't base their purchase on the name. And while it's got a ton of implicit meanings (the 2 i's being two gamers coming together, the word being "wifi" minus the f, the ii in japanese being good, the 2 i's symbolizing the controllers, etc.) but sounds ridiculous. As a result everyone's talking about it, and who can say that's a bad thing for Nintendo's business? If anything this should help Nintendo's sales greatly with the publicity and subliminal message they'll be exposing their Japanese market to (which is their main consumer base).

Posted on Mon May 01, 2006 12:58 pm

galdon

Joined: 02 Feb 2006
Posts: 133

my friend informed me of nintendo's superior marketing techniques and strategies... this proves that Peter Griffon has bought out nintendo.

Posted on Mon May 01, 2006 3:20 pm

Fearisalie

Joined: 21 Jan 2006
Posts: 86

I hate the name but I will buy it anyway. But Ill send someone else to pick it up, as Im not going to go to a store and ask if they have a Wii I can buy.

Posted on Mon May 01, 2006 3:59 pm

genjo

Joined: 13 Feb 2006
Posts: 222

ergh....

miyamoto....just for calling it "Wii"...ought to be shown some justic via my chin of fury...

Posted on Mon May 01, 2006 4:00 pm

psi_manipulator_3000

Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Posts: 1274

lol. That gets me eveytime.

Posted on Mon May 01, 2006 5:49 pm

Sirius

Joined: 12 Jan 2006
Posts: 90

I like it.

Posted on Tue May 02, 2006 3:35 am

sparkz

Joined: 02 Feb 2006
Posts: 664

found this whilst randomly browsing the interweb, made by some guy called terrorbite.

the mystery of where the name came from has been solved at last!!!

Posted on Tue May 02, 2006 10:43 am

psi_manipulator_3000

Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Posts: 1274

Well that explains it then. lol. But why couldn't he have said "REVOLUTION!" when the pikachu shocked him?

Posted on Tue May 02, 2006 7:37 pm

WhiteRaven

Joined: 13 Jan 2006
Posts: 343

No more nintendo bashing. Nintendo, despite always making the best games, never gets any respect. Nintendo is excellent, People bash N64 and GCN. N64 was great, people say the graphics were bad or whatever, well first, graphics, while cool, in no way affect the fun of a game, secondly, while the graphics were bad for the first few N64 titles, I distinctly remember the later ones being amazing. Next, GCN, same thing only GCN Graphics were great from the outset, and the 44 Memory Block Processor was infinitely superior to PS2's piddly 24 Memory Blocks, and the GCN graphics very nearly rivaled X-Box's 68 Memory Block processor, think about that, 24 Memory Blocks less and still very close.

For the record, I believe 1 Memory Block=8,000 Mb(that's megabytes, for the techno-illiterate.

8,000 X 24= 182,000

not much more than a windows 98, Maybe less, I don't know 98's exact memory size, I think it's around 150,000.

PS2 travels at the speed of a snail in peanut butter.

As for the name: I think being able to joke about it actually helps marketing, and you can make anything sound dirty if you really try...

Playstation: Not hard

X-box: actually that's been done in this thread

and Let's not forget that X-box will give you Brain Trauma if it falls on your head, so when you play X-Box, Make sure you have some Trauma Center playing buddies nearby

See you later, I am going to go try and find a way to make my Wii bigger... LOL

Posted on Tue May 02, 2006 8:43 pm

mattz1010

Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Posts: 885

N64 controller = 'flexible', and easy to use, fits with the hand well, etc.

GCN controller = awkward sized buttons, some are hard to reach, others are badly placed, and the hand positioning/size of controller makes it hard for people with larger hands to use them.

Gameboy Micro = what were they thinking? I don't want something EASIER to break than a iPod Nano.

I see some kind of awkward hypocritism here.

first, you say that the GCN has better graphics than the Xbox, which has 24 more Memory Blocks.
Then, you say that the PS2 travels at the speed of a snail, because it has less Memory Blocks.

Wtf?

Wii = not original name.

wii = means Nintendo. In Japanese. Correct me if I'm wrong, though.

Posted on Tue May 02, 2006 9:12 pm

Lightbringer

Joined: 29 Jan 2006
Posts: 293

mattz1010 wrote:

He said GCN was amazing because it was almost as good (not better) than the Xbox graphics-wise with significantly less processing power. It didn't fit into the trend PS2 falls into, and that's what he claimed made it amazing. You seem to have read that as something quite different from what was written, so I figured it was best to clear that up.

As for my own input: the GCN controller was awkward (especially to those with big hands)? This is news to me since I have played GCN plenty and had no problems using any of the buttons despite my freakishly large hands. I don't know what kind of crazy, 8-fingered, gargantuan hands you have, but it's not Nintendo's fault they didn't design the controller specifically for people who could thumb wrestle a Titan.

Oh and Wii doesn't mean Nintendo in Japanese. Nintendo in Japanese in Nintendo. Duh. That's like saying "Toyota" in Japanese is "Camry". Wii is the product name, and lacks any previous meaning in English or Japanese language. Nuff said.

Posted on Tue May 02, 2006 9:23 pm

pyro

Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 60

Ive always loved nintendo, and the revolution sounds very interesting. Imagine playing legend of zelda and actually being able to swing your hand and in the game link slashes his sword at the same time. The only bad part is, whenever I get a new game thats good, I end up staying up all night playing it, I don't think my parents would be too happy listening to me slashing a controller wildly around my room trying to beat a boss or something...

Brb, im going to go play with my wii...

Very Happy

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