Revolution is officially called...*drumroll*

[KimB]

Neither are you going to use the Wii in sentences allowing it to be mistaken for wee as much as the jokes would make you think.
Are you going to say
"I play with my Wii", or "I play with the Wii"
It'll be more often referred as the Wii or a Wii, not my Wii, Wii or WiiWii... it'll be called a console, not a name.
The Wired article linked earlier is good.

I vote that people will just call it a Nintendo, at least in English-speaking areas. Or they'll just snicker internally every time they say Wii.

And I do hear people using the words, "my Gamecube," or "my PS2," all the time. Why not, "my Wii?"

 

[rabidrabbit]

Some other Japanese companies actually do some research before naming their prodiucts and that's why Toyota didn't name one of their car models "Fitta" in Sweden.

Were they really going to?!?!

 

[KimB]

So, for those of us not familiar with the language, why is that an odd name for a car in Sweden?

 

[MasaC]

Were they really going to?!?!

Well, the car is named Fitta everywhere else but not in the nordic countries when they realized what that means in Swedish.

EDIT: My memory serves me wrong. It was Honda - not Toyota. Btw, Fitta means c..nt in Swedish.

EDIT2: For the interested: http://jalsbo.com/bus/hondafitta.html (lots of funny slogans in Swedish)

 

[hey69]

and wasnt sega genesis / megadrive replaced by something else in Italy?

Mazda in europe= i think Miata (?) in the USA
OPEL => Vauxhall in the uk

and so forth...

btw, is it not possible Wii is only ment for the japanese market and Revolution for the rest of the world, or is it a definitve Wii now?

Fitta ha? nice now , maybe usefull next time i c my scandinavian ex... still remember hestkuk

 

[inefficient]

It's a Wii - Mario.

 

[Squeak]

So, for those of us not familiar with the language, why is that an odd name for a car in Sweden?

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitta

 

[KimB]

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitta

Well, I was going to say that a Swedish-language page doesn't help me any. Then I saw the picture

 

[Snyder]

Well, the car is named Fitta everywhere else but not in the nordic countries when they realized what that means in Swedish.

EDIT: My memory serves me wrong. It was Honda - not Toyota. Btw, Fitta means c..nt in Swedish.

EDIT2: For the interested: http://jalsbo.com/bus/hondafitta.html (lots of funny slogans in Swedish)

Well, isn't it the same with the Mitsubishi Pajero?

 

[Jabbah]

Are you going to say
"I play with my Wii", or "I play with the Wii"

No, but you might say:
"Do you want to come round to mine to play with my Wii?"

Some other Japanese companies actually do some research before naming their prodiucts and that's why [Honda] didn't name one of their car models "Fitta" in Sweden.

Toyota did keep the MR2 name for France though.

(This has already probably been posted but wth)
I think the register said it best; that its going to be a school yard mockery with rhymes like:
"I'd rather have a Wii than a PS3"

 

[MasaC]

Nintendo Wii:

Netherlands: Nintendo Who
Germany: Nintendo How
France: Nintendo Yes
Uk: Nintendo Piss
Scotland - Nintendo small/tiny
Latvia: Nintendo Cunt

 

[fearsomepirate]

I think in the USA, we dont' say "wee" for "urine" as much as y'all do in the UK. We do say "wee-wee," but only to little children or in a somewhat humorous vein (and the humor comes primarily from the fact that only little children say they "have to go wee-wee;" it's like saying "I need to use the little boys' room"). "Piss," "pee," and simply "urine" are more common, at least in my neck of the woods. "Wee" is archaic for "little;" we know what it means when a Scot says it, but we don't say it ourselves outside of the occasional Sunday School song ("Zacchaeus was a wee little man..."). It's also used as slang for "penis," but again, mostly by little children.

That's not to say it isn't a horrid name (w00t! Double negative POWAR!!). My prediction is that people just won't pronounce it the same way as "wee." They'll probably make the vowel sound much shorter just to differentiate it.

 

[dizietsma]

When's the Sony Shiit coming out again ?

 

[digitalwanderer]

Penny Arcade has got it covered.

 

[hey69]

hahaha, so in your face! omg vagiina

 

[ban25]

Mazda in europe= i think Miata (?) in the USA

Mazda is Mazda, but the MX-5 was called the Miata in the states until this year.

 

[turkish a. punkass]

I thought people buy systems to play games...oh wait let's forget about the games..we just want to be cool!

i'm being realistic. not everyone is a hardcore gamer. the fact is, EVERY one of my friends whom i've told about this has had a sour look on their face when i told them the new name. i understand nintendo is purposefully trying to alienate themselves, and they are doing SUCH A GOOD JOB. they seem to have completely lost touch with what american audiences want. 3rd party publishers just fucking cringed.

 

[g35er]

Although we don't use "wee" in our common US vernacular, we recognize it's meaning as penis, urine, and little. As others like Democoder have said, the problem with Wii is not that it's a strange name like Google or iPod or Turbografx. It's that it's just way too easy to make dirty puns with it. Nintendo has traditionally marketed to younger people, and let me tell you, 3rd graders will take a word like Wii and run with the dirty jokes.

Joe: Hey, I got a new Playstation.
Tim: Cool, can we try it after school?

Substitute Wii.
Joe: Hey, I got a new Wii.
Tim: What?

What happens when you connect 2 Wiis together. You get Wii-Wii.

Gamers had to put up with the lame joystick jokes for a long time. And now the Wii jokes will be flooding us.

I think in the USA, we dont' say "wee" for "urine" as much as y'all do in the UK. We do say "wee-wee," but only to little children or in a somewhat humorous vein (and the humor comes primarily from the fact that only little children say they "have to go wee-wee;" it's like saying "I need to use the little boys' room"). "Piss," "pee," and simply "urine" are more common, at least in my neck of the woods. "Wee" is archaic for "little;" we know what it means when a Scot says it, but we don't say it ourselves outside of the occasional Sunday School song ("Zacchaeus was a wee little man..."). It's also used as slang for "penis," but again, mostly by little children.

That's not to say it isn't a horrid name (w00t! Double negative POWAR!!). My prediction is that people just won't pronounce it the same way as "wee." They'll probably make the vowel sound much shorter just to differentiate it.

 

[OVERLORD]

Who is Nintendo taking the Wii out of? Another W and it would be wwii.

Even Bart Simpson couldn't make a better faux pas of this name!

 

[scooby_dooby]

Back in 1992:

Joe: Hey, I got a new Playstation.
Tim: Huh?