stinkygoat: stupidest. name. ever.

stinkygoat (

stinkygoat) wrote,
@ 2006-04-27 17:41:00

stupidest. name. ever.
They must be putting something in the cocaine at whatever agency does Nintendo's marketing.

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	2049live 2006-04-27 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah- I never liked the name "N64". Wait- what name are you referring to? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cheesetruck 2006-04-27 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	Also in dark over here... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	2049live 2006-04-27 06:34 pm UTC (link)
	I guess wii needed to go to Nintendo's homepage. ;-) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2006-04-27 04:59 pm UTC (link)
	They could have at least named it something a little more dynamic, I dunno - like "Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". (Reply to this)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2006-04-27 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	I think it's cool. Their next console can be called 'p00'. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	badkalla 2006-04-27 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	I think Nintendo's had this problem for the last ten years ... (Reply to this)

	loshi 2006-04-27 05:32 pm UTC (link)
	The Nintendo Piss? Well, there is slight hope. I mean, they changed the name of the Famicom for international releases. Why do I just get the feeling that some marketing guy saw the success of the iPod and decided that it was all due to the lowercase "i" Hence, if they gave their machine TWO lowercase "i"'s... (Reply to this)

	sack_ 2006-04-27 05:45 pm UTC (link)
	when you're a kid and you wanna play wii, but you ain't had drugs yet... (Reply to this)

	Oh dear. midwalian 2006-04-27 06:04 pm UTC (link)
	Also think the name is quite stupid. Can't say I want to say to people "I'm off to play with my wii". The Nintendo Go didn't sound that good to me..but much more pleasing than this. In the end, I must prefer the actual project name of Revolution. (Reply to this)

arron_shutt
2006-04-27 06:12 pm UTC (link)

It probably looks good in Kanji or Hiragana/Katakana in Japan. Unfortunately, they've pissed it up the wall in virtually every other country.

> They must be putting something in the cocaine at whatever agency does Nintendo's marketing.

Are there any high profile 'defections' from MS or Sony recently to Nintendo? That might explain it as well..double agents. Or the illuminati getting involved. Or perhaps they're Scientologists.

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	mattgillies 2006-04-27 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	what's with all the "ii"s lately? wii, viiv, playstatiion. uh, forget that last one. -matt (Reply to this)(Thread)

	zrath 2006-04-27 09:05 pm UTC (link)
	You're holding the joystick wrong! The fire button goes in the upper-left corner!! Damn you fool kids who don't know nothin'!! Tee-hee... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2006-04-27 09:55 pm UTC (link)
	pfft. i challenge you to a yar's revenge marathon! then we'll see who the true atari fanboy is! -matt (Reply to this)(Parent)

	The stars are aligned and they foretell of this future. xixs 2006-04-27 06:28 pm UTC (link)
	Stage 1. Pick a cool name for your top secret project. "Katana" Stage 2. Change it to a WTF? name before release. "Dreamcast" Stage 3. Drop out of the console hardware market so you can focus on making games. (Reply to this)

	2049live 2006-04-27 06:40 pm UTC (link)
	The Nintendo W2. Prepare your taxes in 16.7 million colors. (Reply to this)

lezek
2006-04-27 08:15 pm UTC (link)

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a marketting trick. Nintendo.com has already been slashdotted into oblivion surely partially due to the sheer stupidity of the name. All that attention can't be bad...

This reminds me a bit of the time Kellogs changed the name of 'Coco Pops' to the patently awful 'Choco Krispies', complete with an intentionally awful modification to the Coco Pops jingle to accomodate the new name with its extra syllable.

Things stay this way for a month or so, then Kellogs hold a telephone poll asking whether they should change the name back or not. With the unprecedented response in favour of changing the name back, Kellogs (and BT) make a fortune in premium rate call charges. The story is all over national newspapers, with every copy-hungry rag feeling the need to express their opinion on the naming of a breakfast cereal. Kellogs get vast amounts of free publicity for their flagship cereal.

That was one of the few times I have ever been inspired to admire marketing people. I'm also amused that it is still recorded almost everywhere as having been a complete disaster due to inept management.

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	Yep neon360 2006-04-28 12:01 am UTC (link)
	I would be more than happy with Nintendo RS (Revolution System) and matches the DS portable. Guess they took what their mario buddy does best when yelling (Wheee!) and thought it'd make for a great name? No way, just leave it to Mario to screw things up ;) (Reply to this)

	dr_memory 2006-04-28 07:07 am UTC (link)
	Cocaine? I'm thinking that this was more of a crystal meth kind of decision. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	stevotj 2006-04-28 11:28 am UTC (link)
	More like LSD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Stupid stupid... (Anonymous) 2006-04-28 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	I can't believe it. Only Nintendo could come up with this. Do you think Sony and Microsoft are laughing yet? ----------- www.thelairofthemonkey.co.uk (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Stupid stupid... stinkygoat 2006-04-28 03:47 pm UTC (link)
	I think they are probably, er, weeing themselves ;). I still want one, mind - just can't see myself talking about it too much by name. "Are you going to be queueing up outside the shop for a launch-day wii?" etc etc... };-) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Stupid stupid... (Anonymous) 2006-04-28 03:56 pm UTC (link)
	Even worse... "I'm just going round to my mates house to play with his wii" :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Stupid stupid... stinkygoat 2006-04-28 04:49 pm UTC (link)
	It seems that Nintendo want to give the idea that whole families will wii together in front of the telly }:-) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Stupid stupid... ravuya 2006-04-30 07:28 am UTC (link)
	I expect they will be doing a lot of wii-naming around E3. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	zotmeister 2006-05-01 02:32 pm UTC (link)
	I still say the true horror is the Wii's controller: - ZM (Reply to this)

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