Revolution is officially called...*drumroll*

I guess the nintendo "Go" idea didnt didnt make the final cut. After hearing htis, its too bad.

 

lol

Fredi

 

its as funny as 360

 

Oh sure, the name is great for Japan - but why put this out in the UK release? They need to pull a NES vs Famicom thing here, and rebadge it for foreign territories.

 

Well, anything else would have been better, it seems that they wanted to go with a simple, yet invented, word (Marketing honchos love these in France). But it seems that the name wasn't created by an Anglophone person.

Well, at least in French it doesn't sound as awkward as it does in English. Wii/Oui stands for yes, so...

 

And the winner of the 2006 Chevy Nova Award is.........

 

Although it will ultimately not have much of an effect on my ultimate decision whether to purchase one, hearing the name makes me want one a lot less than I did when I saw the controller...

Someone, somewhere, was probably paid an awful lot of money to come up with that.

 

That's what they thought naming the seventh planet from the sun.

.Z

 

My thoughts exactly. Speaking as a Brit, it's the most stupid fucking name I have ever heard.

In all seriousness, it's a nail as far as the UK market is concerned. I don't think many kids are going to want wee for Christmas. Wee is so synonymous with urine here that it will be pretty much impossible for any Brit to view any pertinent marketing with a straight face. The official page is hilarious.

 

lol--yeah this one is going to go into the HBS stupid name case study for sure. Someone at Ninty deserves a golden shower for this one.

 

Oh sure, I'm still getting one - but then again I'm a full grown adult confident in his masculinity. If Nintendo wanted to bring the impressionable teenage demographic back into their fold and shake the 'kiddy' imagery, this was not a good first step towards accomplishing that.

 

erm... I just don't think that's a good name for a console system. they can come up with something more marketable than that...

 

Apparently they feel the answer is that they are going down the toilet.

 

I don't think it'll last as a name. Like those many other brands that got renamed for international territories, car names and cleaning products and the like. The marketting chumps that came up with this should be sacked too. Monosyllabic names are asking for trouble somewhere in the world.

 

LOL

 

All the funny, and now with twice the humiliation.

 

The UK contingent at Nintendo should be ashamed of themselves for letting this pass. I really wouldnt' be surprised if it's rebranded here - the backlash will be ridiculous.

What's that under the television? It's my Wii.

 

I can see the size issue for Nintendo suddenly working to it's disadvantage.

"What a small Wii!"