Nintendo Wii
Yes, that’s really the final name for the Revolution, your local games forum is guaranteed to be slamming it right now. You’ve got to wonder if they even ran this by anyone outside of Nintendo Japan Marketing. It can mean “diminutive” in Scotland, “urine” in England and “Yes” in France. Brilliant!
Update: Oh my, it gets better. Who will be distributing Wii all over the UK? Kock.
After sleeping on it I’m still convinced they could not have picked a more ridiculous name to instantly neutralise the massively unique appeal of the console itself, Tycho seems to agree.
April 27th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
I can see myself in a years time.
Shop assistant:”hell sir can i help you”
me:”yes i have come for a wee”
assistant:”excuse me?”
me:”don’t make me say it again, i want a wii!”
April 27th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Alternatively, I think I’ll go queue for a Wii. How they can seriously have thought this one through is beyond me. Dreamcast sounded silly but at least there weren’t a miriad of ridiculous conotations behind the name.
April 28th, 2006 at 9:32 am
They must be taking the piss?
I’m not letting Nintendo Wii in my living room.
The jokes are endless. :)
April 28th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Koch?
April 28th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
Don’t really care about the name, I thought revolution was nice but whatever (btw. wii in german would be wie=how)
But they get a lot of coverage now, everyone seems to be talking about it ^^
April 29th, 2006 at 9:30 am
Revolution, Wii, I don’t care what they call it, I just want the damn thing already.