Worst console name?

Zombrex · 05-05-2010 05:50PM

It has been mentioned but, N-Gage hands down.

It came a good few years after the trend of turning "En" into "N" in everything was pretty much dead, and has the impression it was named in a board room by someones mother or father who vaguely remembered their teenage son doing that a few years ago.

Zombrex · 05-05-2010 05:51PM

carlowed wrote: »

nee-yo-gee-yo

I love the quirky names of Asian consoles

Mr Trade In · 05-05-2010 05:54PM

Dark Savior wrote: »

Gizmondo - ugh, trys to hard to be cool and fails.

Weirdest thing I have ever bought. It went back in the box after 1 hour.

Mr Trade In · 05-05-2010 05:57PM

Sega Nomad or Multi Mega for me really stupid names, also Game Gear,if they released that today people would think they were drug pushers.

Adyx · 05-05-2010 07:57PM

Gunmonkey wrote: »

I always thought the PSP had a stupid name: the Playstation Portable, wow you guys really earned your paychecks with naming that alright.

And if 32X (32 bit eXpansion) is stupid, what about the Nintendo 64??

Better than the "Ultra" 64 if you ask me. More consistent too.

Azhrei · 05-05-2010 10:58PM

landsleaving wrote: »

I don't think nintendo considered that argument tbh.

"Oh hey, wanna come to my house and play with my wii?"

Emmmm...

That name was thought up by employees at Nintendo of Japan, who couldn't care less that it sounds like a slang word for urine in some western countries, because they knew people would get used to the name and the laughing would stop pretty early on.

Which, to be fair, is what happened.

o1s1n · 06-05-2010 12:35AM

Mr Trade In wrote: »

Sega Nomad or Multi Mega for me really stupid names, also Game Gear,if they released that today people would think they were drug pushers.

Sega Nomad is THE best name for a handheld, ever. Anyone who states otherwise is just wrong :P

+1 for Wonderswan, Game.com, N-Gage and n64. The whole N64 thing really pissed me off the way they stuck '64' into the title of so many games. **** off!!!

CathalDublin · 06-05-2010 12:39AM

GP2X-Wiz WTF??

Azhrei · 06-05-2010 02:43AM

I know of the GP2X, but I've never heard it called the GP2X-Wiz.

ghostchant · 06-05-2010 03:22AM

Azhrei wrote: »

I know of the GP2X, but I've never heard it called the GP2X-Wiz.

They're different consoles. The GP2X Wiz is the successor to the GP2X

CiDeRmAn · 06-05-2010 09:35AM

I 2nd the Nomad as a great name for a console, pity it never got a euro release, I do miss my american one from time to time.
Don't miss the batteries it chewed through though!
The PSP was a great name, the logo was cool and it was one of the most desirable consoles at the time, remembering that the original DS was an ugly pig of a machine and not so popular, took the DS Lite to light that fuse.
No one really called it Playstation Portable, the PSP name was cool, and the logo matched in with the PS2 logo as well. We are looking at the PSP from the wrong end of the telescope, from here it looks like and alsoran compared to the DS, but back then it was a marvel.

And I stand by my comments about Playstation = Videogames, it may not be true now, but for 10 years or more, 96-07, the brand, via the PS and PS2, was shorthand for videogames, to most non-gamers, and it took the 360 years to break that hold, but only took Nintendo a year or two for the Wii to become the new videogame staple, claiming back the crown they once owned, world wide, with the Nes and later the Snes.

o1s1n · 06-05-2010 01:49PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

And I stand by my comments about Playstation = Videogames, it may not be true now, but for 10 years or more, 96-07, the brand, via the PS and PS2, was shorthand for videogames, to most non-gamers, and it took the 360 years to break that hold, but only took Nintendo a year or two for the Wii to become the new videogame staple, claiming back the crown they once owned, world wide, with the Nes and later the Snes.

I know what you mean here. I really don't think the 360 or the Wii have come anywhere close to Playstation being used as shorthand for videogames. Although maybe that was just in Ireland. We were a bit Playstation fanatical here!

As for the name, I always liked it myself. It was the lack of innovation with the following ps2 & ps3 that annoyed me. As good as a brand is, sticking a number onto the end of it always pisses me off. It's the most unoriginal thing you can possibly do. Unfortunately that just seems to be the way things have gone now.

Although saying that, Nintendo weren't much better, were they?

Nintendo Entertainmeny System
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo 64

Sega still come out on top with me for naming consoles. They're always incredibly kick ass. No sign of weakness. And everyone knows that sticking the word 'Mega' onto something immediately makes it ten times better.

Azhrei · 06-05-2010 03:07PM

Whatever with the names, at least Nintendo's consoles were sufficiently different from the last, they had a new direction to go in. Sony's intentions for the PlayStation brand included an increasing focus on media and whatever Nintendo was doing.

Ireland may have been PlayStation crazy, but Nintendo held up well elsewhere, especially in the States. There the N64 put up a hell of a fight, and only the N64 could have even survived against the onslaught that was the PlayStation, never mind give it a run for it's money (though there was never really any doubt). Remember that even despite the lower price, even the Saturn was more popular than the PlayStation at first.

It took quite a while for the PlayStation to achieve the momentum it did, and while you mention that people refer to consoles unanimously as "PlayStation", long into the PS1 and even the PS2's life, people were still calling them "Nintendo". Nintendo's name is no longer prominent on the front of their consoles and people don't call them that anymore, they are either Wii games or DS games.

I wonder if it's the start of a new trend, the one that should have been there all along, where people call the console's games by the name of the console? I'll bet you anything that people won't ever be looking for games for "Microsoft"

Butch Cassidy · 08-05-2010 01:08AM

Azhrei wrote: »

Whatever with the names, at least Nintendo's consoles were sufficiently different from the last, they had a new direction to go in. Sony's intentions for the PlayStation brand included an increasing focus on media and whatever Nintendo was doing.

Ireland may have been PlayStation crazy, but Nintendo held up well elsewhere, especially in the States. There the N64 put up a hell of a fight, and only the N64 could have even survived against the onslaught that was the PlayStation, never mind give it a run for it's money (though there was never really any doubt). Remember that even despite the lower price, even the Saturn was more popular than the PlayStation at first.

The N64 held its own indeed. I just think that similar to SNES vs. Mega Drive, N64 vs. PSX both had their own respective peculiar crowd. Playstation kids were just coming into the teen years and some of the games represented a slightly more grown up theme to them in terms of violence and that whereas Nintendo still focused on games not the cinematic style stuff PSX was doing with the likes of Metal Gear and Resident Evil.

Sony managed to get a lot of life out of the Playstation 2. It's swan song may have been God of War but it still hung around for a good while with the Buzz and Singstar titles which was a fairly decent idea to prolonge its life.

Azhrei wrote: »

It took quite a while for the PlayStation to achieve the momentum it did,

You can say that again! I was shocked when I read a wiki page that said the PSx was released in 1994 :eek:. We only got a Mega Drive in 1995! - played my cousin's before that.

Azhrei wrote: »

and while you mention that people refer to consoles unanimously as "PlayStation", long into the PS1 and even the PS2's life, people were still calling them "Nintendo". Nintendo's name is no longer prominent on the front of their consoles and people don't call them that anymore, they are either Wii games or DS games.

I wonder if it's the start of a new trend, the one that should have been there all along, where people call the console's games by the name of the console? I'll bet you anything that people won't ever be looking for games for "Microsoft"

I knew a kid about 15 who got a Wii and he kept calling it "Nintendo Wii". I think he was ashamed of the name. He traded it in for a PS3

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