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.

Goodshape

steviec wrote:

This week should hopefully answer a lot of questions though.

Hopefully so.

From what I've read though, it seems the controllers will be sensitive enough that you can perform most actions without needing to dance about the room.. it might be more fun to do so for a game like Tennis but there's nothing wrong with that every once-in-a-while.

I'm fairly confident you'll still be able to sit down on the couch, rest your elbows on your knees and play a FPS or swing a sword or something.

Hopefully we'll find out soon enough.

flogen

Goodshape wrote:

Hopefully so.

From what I've read though, it seems the controllers will be sensitive enough that you can perform most actions without needing to dance about the room.. it might be more fun to do so for a game like Tennis but there's nothing wrong with that every once-in-a-while.

I'm fairly confident you'll still be able to sit down on the couch, rest your elbows on your knees and play a FPS or swing a sword or something.

Hopefully we'll find out soon enough.

Going from the reports after the original announcement of the remote that seems to be the case, of course they were only tech demo's, hopefully we'll see plenty of real-life examples at E3

Lord Oz

Maybe they'll change the name at E3.

po0k

The name is fine. All this hand-wringing is starting to annoy me. Can we talk about the actual system and any further news on games, controller prices, present/future HD support etc?

sprinkles

monument wrote:

>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.

Not what I said at all, you might want to read my post again. I said their name is unimaginative. Obviously they've built up a strong following fot he playstaion brand so it would be a small bit stupid to change it at this stage, but boring all the same.

monument

sprinkles wrote:

Not what I said at all, you might want to read my post again.

It is this simple, you're saying Wee is a better name.

sprinkles

monument wrote:

It is this simple, you're saying Wee is a better name.

Exactly, I think the Wii is better than the PS3, that's not what you accused me of implying in your original post.. that the brand is better. Of course the PS# brand has a lot of market value but it's not as good a name. It's my opinion based purely on how is sounds, not on how much it's worth

Anyway, the "Wii" name has really caught on, the negativity really stirred up alot of debate and comotion leading upto E3 which IMO saw Nintendo steal the show. A very clever move indeed.

Kevok

It's funny. They announced the name in advance of E3 to let the games shine there rather than have the press focus on the unusual name. The "Wee" jokes where done to death after that announcement, they had loads of press, albeit mostly negative but they stole the show not based on the name but on the innovative controller.

They really couldn't have played it any better. The only problem now, is whether or not this good will lasts until they launch. Nintendo always have very strong E3's but they rarely if ever translate into a measureably strong amount of sales. They got more mainstream press exposure this last week than I think I've ever seen Nintendo get, but still nowhere near the scale of "Sony announces Next-Generation successor to wildly successful PlayStation." If they don't capitalise on this good press then it was all for nothing.

monument

sprinkles wrote:

Exactly, I think the Wii is better than the PS3, that's not what you accused me of implying in your original post.. that the brand is better. Of course the PS# brand has a lot of market value but it's not as good a name. It's my opinion based purely on how is sounds, not on how much it's worth

Apologies, for any confusion caused, I am talking about the name with in the context of marketing.

sprinkles wrote:

the negativity really stirred up alot of debate and comotion leading upto E3 which IMO saw Nintendo steal the show.
A very clever move indeed.

The 'negativity' wasn’t planned, so I'm confused as to how it was a clever move.

If Nintendo got a good deal of coverage around E3, it would most likely be down to their new controller, not the silly name (which cause pre-E3 coverage).

sprinkles

The negativity wasn't planned for but they knew there would be debate about it. It was a bold move and a risk IMO whihc pulled off quite well. Plus as already mentioned it took all the focus of the name away from E3 and let people concentrate on what really matters....the console & games.

Leprachaun

Im really starting to like the name now

elekid

It's grown on me and I didn't think that was going to happen because I hated it at first. When I hear people say "Wii" now I think of the console instead of the pee jokes, but that's often the way with strange names. It's just a matter of getting used to hearing it. I still think they probably would have been better of sticking with Revolution, over here at least, because the name isn't going to grow on everyone and it might but people off if they aren't Nintendo fans to begin with like I am.

Sarky

What I want to know is how long will it take for a Star Wars game to appear? That controller is crying out for some lightsabre action.

Leprachaun

Sarky wrote:

What I want to know is how long will it take for a Star Wars game to appear? That controller is crying out for some lightsabre action.

Too right.I saw a fan video of using the controller as a lightsaber somewhere on www.gametrailers.com

po0k

more @ eurogamer.net

aniascor

Funny how names grow on you. I wasn't very impressed when I read about the new name first - but after seeing the videos from e3, now all I can think is "Wheeeeeee!" when I see it (and in my head it sounds very similar to that noise Mario makes at intervals during games)

Can't wait to play this!