Nintendo Revolution Renamed 'Wii' 966
Retroneous writes "The Nintendo Revolution has had its name changed to the Nintendo Wii." Confirmation on the official Revolution site. Update: 04/27 16:32 GMT by Z : More information available from a Gamasutra article: "New details on the disc format have also been revealed: 'Instead of a tray, a single, innovative, self-loading media bay will play both 12-centimeter optical discs used for the new system as well as Nintendo GameCube discs. Owners will have the option of equipping a small, self-contained attachment to play movies and other DVD content.'"
Re:So does someone in marketing need to be shot? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Oh Good Lord (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Oh Good Lord (Score:3, Informative)
Seriously though, all names will be mocked. All names.
Re:DVD "attachment" (Score:2, Informative)
This is good neutral position between ps3 and 360, Nintendo can sell both blueray and hddvd. That way they can stay safely out of the fray of the ridiculous format war while supporting both.
They wont incur the cost of returns for drives burnt out from excess use and it'll last longer after warranty.
Wii, though - that's right up there with the "New Coke" debacle.
that said I'd still get one.
Re:What about Japanese? (Score:3, Informative)
How come I cannot type katakana into slashdot comments? It just deletes it.
Re:First Pun! (Score:0, Informative)
Re:What about Japanese? (Score:5, Informative)
The longer answer is that Japanese obsoleted the "wi" sound many years ago, and the most common way of making similar sounds in loan words and sound effects is to use the two characters "u-i" instead. As there are no suriving Japanese words that start with "wi," unless there's some ancient meaning that only a classical language scholar would recognize, this is just nothing but a sound effect word, like "Wheee!"
Oh. I just saw the bit about asking us to lie. Hmmm....
Yes, "wii" is the way that nobles in the Sendai region used to say "ii" or "good." The use of ancient Sendai dialect evokes images of both the area's Tanabata festival and the legendary samurai Date Masamune. It is the spirit of big, brightly pastel colored floats and badass, one-eyed, moon-helmetted warlords that Nintendo seeks to evoke.
Re:The question now is... (Score:1, Informative)
There is precedent for that. For example, no one referred to the AMD K7 cpu's as "Athlons"; they were always advertised by their code-names ie. Thunderbird, Thoroughbred, Palomino, Barton etc.
Re:Why wii? Confusion with Wifi? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:N Wii (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Okay, WTF (Score:4, Informative)
Exactly. I've already got a DVD player, as do most people. Whether the $40 piece of crap from Target or some tricked-out multi-disc-loading thing that cost hundreds. So why would I want to pay extra when I buy a game system so it can play the DVDs that I've already got my DVD player for?? I *sort of* understood the allure of built-in DVD players a few years ago, when people were still in the process of switching from VCRs. But now, most people have one, and unless yours happens to conk out at the same time you've decided to buy a game system (or you watched them on your old console), why would you pay extra for one in your new console?
Let them know what you think! (Score:5, Informative)
Give them some negetive feedback, maybe, just maybe, we wont be able to get revolution back, but Maybe they will try to get another.. less absolutely horid name.
(hell, we got farscape back on the air)
Re:First Pun! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Hilarious (Score:3, Informative)