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    Nintendo Revolution renamed. Why?

    Revolution has finally been renamed.

    Check out the Headline for more info.

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    The marketing company obviously saw them coming..
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    http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/weeee.php

    well it's certainly an... unexpected... rename.

    i still miss Project Reality

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    "We are the knights of wii"

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    Hahaha, it sounds like an april fools joke. Especially as wii wouldnt be written we
    but actually wee if you translate it... Genius.

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    Bad renmae in my opinion.

    Revolution sounded so much better.

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    They're taking the p!ss

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    Worst name for a console (make that product) EVER, even beats Viiv for pointless nonsence. My god, even 'Go' was better than that. Maybe it's the Nintendo Go Wii?

    Customer in shop - "I want a Wii..."

    Oh how we (Wii?) laugh. It's so funny, it's not even funny. I can see a major backlash from the Nintendo fanboys coming on.
    Last edited by autopilot; 27-04-2006 at 07:14 PM.

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    I was thinking the other day if console companies could think up of a console name that can't be rhymed with any silly words (Gaystation, Lamecube, etc etc, millions more) but I didn't expect them to actually name it directly as a silly word.

    Sony to respond with Sony Puu?

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    it's a great PR stunt if nothing else It gives nintendo a lot of media attention (albeit not for the best reasons), and could make some more people aware of the console (free advertising essentially)

    Still I agree it's a poo name, revolution was much better...it's a shame that some of the code names sound better than the finals, dolphin was much better than gamecube imho

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    Does Wii mean something credible in japanese? Cus it sounds ridiculous in English.

    Not that it would stop me buying one. I'd like to have a Wii in my living room.
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    in Japanese its ウィー
    Which is uii, there is no wi sound in japanese.

    The only time I have seen ウィー is as a name like for Michelle Wie.

    It doesnt exist in Japanese

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    Why are codenames always better than the actrual names. Maybe they need to pay marketing departments more. "Revolution" would be a good name. And Vista wasn't exactly a great name, but I guess compared to XP. Maybe we just need to get used to sucky names like "MacBook". Of course none of the above examples are as bad a the buchering of the new Nintendo console's name.

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    Shigeru Miyamoto back on those magic mushrooms again, never have i seen something with such an utterly stupid name, i thought XBOX360 was stupid but Wii? Fair play to them for not going the sony route and just sticking a number at the end but for god sakes atleast call it something thats actually a word. I think i must be the only person alive that thinks the Wii controller is the biggest gimmick in history, i can see this consle (even with it being priced way cheaper) falling flat on its face, with just the DS keeping it afloat.
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    Wii, will buy it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kumagoro
    in Japanese its ウィー
    Which is uii, there is no wi sound in japanese.

    The only time I have seen ウィー is as a name like for Michelle Wie.

    It doesnt exist in Japanese
    Someone just told me that there is a kanji character for wii. I don't know how credible he is. You definately can't write it with one of the syllabaries.

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