Nintendo Wii: Yay or Nay?

honru

Ahrighty. It's been a week now since Nintendo dropped the bomb on its Revolution name change. So.. has anyone gotten used to Wii, or is the juvinile aspect just too much?

monkeyfudge

I'm afraid to say it actually has started to grow on me.

Doodee

nay to name,

Yay to the device itself

Creamy Goodness

it will be the games that make or break the console for me tbh, they could of called it the fun box and i wouldn't care as long as the games are good.

The Free Man

tbh its only a name, its still gonna be great

Retr0gamer

I'm getting used to it but I will never like it. Still it will be the games that will sell me the console.

grimloch

The things you can do with the name are great.

I'm going to play with my wii. Does anybody want to play with my wii? I will thrust my wii in peoples faces. I have a red wii. We're going round to Micks house to have a go of the aul wii.

The list goes on.

Keedowah

I'm going to play with my wii. Does anybody want to play with my wii? I will thrust my wii in peoples faces. I have a red wii. We're going round to Micks house to have a go of the aul wii.

Excellent!

tbh - the name has grown on me - more importantly its got the word "Nintendo" in front of it!

Zillah

Of course you're going to accept it. Nintendo spent millions on market research.

Tools.

ObeyGiant

"Revolution" was a dumb name for a console anyway.

Pugsley

If you look at names of consoles in the past, their all terrable, you just get used to them:

Master System
Megadrive
Dreamcast
MegaCD
Playstation
X-box

All utterly awful names, Wii has grown on me, not too bothered by it now, its just another console name.

Crucifix

I find it annoying to say.

Sarky

Wheeeeeeeeeeee!

aphex™

It has sort of grown on me aswell.

Maybe emailing the marketing staff at Nintendo UK and telling them the company was finished and that they should find new jobs before it goes bust was a twee bit presumptious.

It is still silly tho.

grimloch

Pugsley wrote:

If you look at names of consoles in the past, their all terrable, you just get used to them:

It's hardly the worst name in history. Plus it allows new jokes to be made. Calling the other yoke the "gaystation" wore rather thin many many years ago.

Plus, it's not like the name is really relevant, at least it's interesting unlike slapping some new numbers onto the end of an existing name which, quite frankly, is boring and unimaginative.

monkeyfudge

Wonderswan is still the bestest name ever for a console.

flogen

Wii aren't bothered by it (that's a Royal Wii, by the way).

I was never too concerned but it has settled with me all the same... seems more natural now.

sprinkles

ObeyGiant wrote:

"Revolution" was a dumb name for a console anyway.

This coming form a man/Woman named ObeyGiant

Wii has grown on me........I actually think it's better than the "PS3" - Wow Sony, you pulled out all the stops with that one.

koneko

Doodee wrote:

nay to name,

Yay to the device itself

Ditto. It won't stop me buying it obviously, but I still think it's a pretty dumb name.

the corpo

not a fan of the name, but i've been enjoying the mileage various journo's have been getting out of it, even the simplest of punnery "wiill nintendo launch next wiik?" etc, has been making me chortle.

c+vg in particular are being particularly amusing

the corpo

jesus, i'm sad

ObeyGiant

sprinkles wrote:

This coming form a man/Woman named ObeyGiant

Now you're just getting personal.

Kristok

monkeyfudge wrote:

Wonderswan is still the bestest name ever for a console.

What about gizmondo

sprinkles

ObeyGiant wrote:

Now you're just getting personal.

no offence intended of course

Retr0gamer

monkeyfudge wrote:

Wonderswan is still the bestest name ever for a console.

Rubbish. TurboGrafx-16 wins it by a country mile.

po0k

WiiJagulator

Cuddlesworth

"So John what did you get the kids for Christmass"

"Wee"

"Wee?"

"Yeah I wrapped it myself"

Sarky

SyxPak wrote:

WiiJagulator

Now that just sounds dirty.

monument

sprinkles wrote:

Wii has grown on me........I actually think it's better than the "PS3" - Wow Sony, you pulled out all the stops with that one.

>looks at the Irish Charts (one with the break down on what % went to what console)

It looks like Sony know what they're doing on the marketing side of things, so are you saing that with a straight face, or maybe you're saying Sony are **** at marketing and their consoles and all their games sell them selfes?

It's not about the people who will buy the f-ing thing no matter what, it's about getting other people buying the console and playing the games. Wee might do that, you never know. But going on Nintendo's track record and the way they're acting now, I'd say no.

Goodshape

I've grown to like the name a lot. Revolution is begining to sound stale in comparison to Wii.

And the console sounds absolutly brilliant. Only thing I'm actually looking forward to this 'generation'.

Great article here from Time Magazine.. going through a few games, explaining the why's and how's. Don't think I've read anything less than "amazing" from anyone who has touched the console/controller yet.

Time Mag wrote:

The third game, and probably the most fun, is also the simplest: tennis. The controller becomes a racket, and I'm smacking forehands and stroking backhands. The sensors are fine enough that you can scoop under the ball to lob it, or slice it for spin. At the end, I don't so much put the controller down as have it pried from my hands.

steviec

Goodshape wrote:

I've grown to like the name a lot. Revolution is begining to sound stale in comparison to Wii.

And the console sounds absolutly brilliant. Only thing I'm actually looking forward to this 'generation'.

Great article here from Time Magazine.. going through a few games, explaining the why's and how's. Don't think I've read anything less than "amazing" from anyone who has touched the console/controller yet.

So are these being tested in a big conference room or in a real setting? Because my room isn't big enough to play tennis in. With eyetoy for example, nice idea, had some great fun with it in a big seminar room in college, didn't work at home.

Oh and if you want to play tennis, why not play tennis instead of swinging a remote control around your bedroom. I want the wii to turn out well but there's still a whole lot of doubts. I've yet to see a really innovative game or one that I really want to play. This week should hopefully answer a lot of questions though.