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Title: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: bustin98 on April 27, 2006, 10:27:02 am: Man, I don't know if I like it, but that is the official name for Nintendo's new system.

The Nintendo Wii. Check out http://revolution.nintendo.com/

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Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: JonLeung on April 27, 2006, 11:05:15 am: I can't access the web page; WebSense blocks most gaming web sites at work.

If it's for real, can you post a screenshot (or a link to a screenshot) of it?

How do you pronounce that, anyway? "Whee?" "Why?"

I much prefer "Revolution".

EDIT: Apparently it's pronounced "we".

Revolution Report
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: bustin98 on April 27, 2006, 11:08:54 am: Pronounced "wee".

Can you see this?

http://revolution.nintendo.com/wii_teaser.swf

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Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: JonLeung on April 27, 2006, 11:19:08 am: If it's on the Nintendo site at all, I'm pretty sure I can't see it until I get home.

I hear the flash animation is pretty cool, though. :(

A lot of negativity about the name wherever I can read about it right now...but if their showing at E3 is awesome, it shouldn't matter much in the end.

English: slang for piss, sounds like "whee"/"we".

French: sounds like "yes".

German: sounds like V, Roman for 5 (as in, fifth console)

Weird, someone was talking about the Nintendo V on Revolution Report a couple days ago. Looks like Revolution Report is going to change their name, too.
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: bustin98 on April 27, 2006, 12:01:19 pm: In Japanese "ii" = "good".

The animation is slick in the movie. Seems like they are still pushing people to get in groups of 4 to play in one location. Nintendo just needs to realize that online play should be the focus of multiplayer, not multiple controllers on one system.

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Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: JonLeung on April 27, 2006, 01:07:17 pm: I made a poll about it (happy, Inty?) about whether or not people here like it.

It's all about the games. Yeah, the name doesn't give a good first impression to six-year-olds and British people who don't want to say "I'm going to play with my Wii" but it'll be their loss.
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Thraxian on April 27, 2006, 02:29:39 pm: First the Pentium VIIV (pronounced vive, rhymes with five), and now Nintendo Wii. What next?

Why can't manufacturers come up with English words to describe their products, and not these stupid character sequences with dual meanings?

Nintendo Revolution sounded cool. As in: "I'm going to go home and play my Rev!"

Nintendo Wii? I don't know if I want to admit to having one of those. "Want to get together and play some Wheee?"

By introducing a name like Revolution, and not using it, isn't Nintendo setting themselves up for a competitor to come along and use it. Since Nintendo didn't use the name "Revolution", I'm just waiting for the "Microsoft Revolution", or the "Sony Revolution" to hit the shelves and take off running. Heck, even the "Intellivision Revolution" or "Atari Revolution" sounds better than the "Nintendo Wii".
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Revned on April 27, 2006, 02:32:31 pm: Wii? My god. Can you imagine the confusion it'll cause when people say it in real life? "We play Wii a lot." Now if it were an acronym, that'd be better, but it's actually supposed to be "we." I'm tempted to call it the Revolution instead.
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Inty on April 27, 2006, 02:35:18 pm: It's system suicide.

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Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Revned on April 27, 2006, 02:38:03 pm: I liked "Dolphin" better than GameCube too.
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Inty on April 27, 2006, 02:43:57 pm: BRB, i'm just going for a quick Wii.

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Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: JonLeung on April 27, 2006, 02:49:01 pm: "Want to play with my Wii?"

When pronounced with Nintendo, you get "Nintendo Wii", which actually sounds like "Nintendo-E", or if you say "NWii" it sounds like "envy", but with a W.

Very odd.

I can't say I love it, I can still say I prefer the Revolution, but hey - Nintendo's gotten a lot of press today with this controversial title. And if the Wii is as fun to play as it is embarassing to say, no one will care about the name.

Most people call Nintendo consoles the "Nintendo" anyway.

Though it invites flaming, "PlayStation" sounds really kiddy if you think about it. "Play station". A station for play. Ick.
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Revned on April 27, 2006, 02:57:42 pm: At least I won't see "Rev" all over the place now ;)
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: JonLeung on April 27, 2006, 04:01:56 pm: "Rev's still fun to play with, even if it's now really Wii." >_>
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Revned on April 27, 2006, 04:06:33 pm: Grr...
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: JonLeung on April 28, 2006, 09:00:27 am: It's only been less than a day now and I'm warming up to the name, if only because I'm tired of all the complaining about it.

And I probably should've spent last night putting up any's Secret Of The Stars maps instead of reading such drivel. >_<

With only 12 days to E3, I'm excited that I'll get to see what the real fuss should be about...the games and how to play them. I don't think that'll disappoint. :)
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Dan on April 28, 2006, 09:09:19 am: Yikes! any submitted some Secret of the Stars maps as well? The plot thickens... </blatentsarcasmthatwillverypossiblybemissedbecausethisistheinternet>
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Thraxian on April 28, 2006, 10:58:28 am: NINTENDO: O Gamers of Wii, we have brought you a new system. Will you play now?

THRAXIAN: It is a good system. I like the controllers particularly,... but there is one small problem.

NINTENDO: What is that?

THRAXIAN: We are now... no longer the Gamers who play 'Wii'.

GAMERS OF WII: Wii! Shh!

THRAXIAN: Shh! We are now the Gamers Who Say 'Ecky- ecky- ecky- ecky- pikang- zoop- boing- goodem- zoo- owli- zhiv'.

(translated: why can't you just call it a Revolution?!)

RANDOM GAMER: Wii!

THRAXIAN: Therefore, we must give you a test.

NINTENDO: What is this test, O Gamers of-- Gamers who till recently played 'Wii'?

THRAXIAN: Firstly, you must find... another name!

[dramatic chord]
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: CleverConveyence on April 30, 2006, 02:02:28 pm: rof @ Thraxian

You win, sir!

I digress, I'm warming up to it, too.
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: JonLeung on May 01, 2006, 01:09:00 pm: These are the nights we play Wii!

I can never seem to catch all of that film, but I'm pretty sure I get the "Knights who say 'Nii'" reference.

There are theories that it's a joke (perhaps people are hoping so), including that the trademarks weren't registered yet, etc., and their have been rebuttals to those comments, too. I'm pretty sure it's not a joke, but at E3 we'll know for sure either way, won't we? :D
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Revned on May 01, 2006, 02:30:14 pm: I wouldn't be surprised if it was a joke. Anyway, I expect up-to-the-minute coverage on E3 when you get there. :P
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Inty on May 01, 2006, 02:43:42 pm: Yeah, it's possibly a hoax to get all attention on Nintendo at the show. <_< That would own.

But it's unlikely.

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Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: JonLeung on May 01, 2006, 02:53:41 pm: Revned Said:
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a joke. Anyway, I expect up-to-the-minute coverage on E3 when you get there. :P

Lack of laptop, sorry.

But the hotel has dial-up Internet. I'll try and say hi here but I can't do much beyond that. I'll also get a hold of whatever news from the Nintendo conference there is the day before the showfloor is opened up, otherwise you guys would know stuff before I do.
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Revned on May 01, 2006, 06:14:35 pm: I was kidding, Jon ;)
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: JonLeung on May 01, 2006, 06:27:51 pm: Well, I forgot that I DO have access to the media facilities, so I actually could throw you some snippets of info while I'm there. Like I said, though, the big game news sites will have all the info you'll want; I don't think I can get any kind of exclusive scoop.
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Waddle Dee on May 03, 2006, 03:57:08 pm: i sure hope they keep the name "wii" "WIIIIIIIIIIIII" (J/K)

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Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: JonLeung on May 04, 2006, 12:29:59 pm: I thought it was odd, but I wasn't retchingly hating it. But in confuses me, not only because of all the jokes about it in the English language, but the fact that there isn't a proper Japanese syllable for it. The closest is supposedly like the word for "good", which I guess makes sense to them...but really, no syllable? It'd be like if they named it something in English that like some fantasy characters' names would require a lot of apostrophes for the unpronounceable letters.
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Thraxian on May 04, 2006, 01:16:45 pm: Sounds good. Let's call it "Xghtzkpf" instead. Since that's unpronouncable, we can affectionally nickname it the "X-box" instead....no....wait...
Title: RE: The Nintendo Wii
Post by: Thraxian on May 04, 2006, 01:28:17 pm: Sorry for the double-post.

<mutter>stinkin edit button</mutter>

I read something on another forum that made me think. Here's a paraphrase:

Think of the similarities:

- Microsoft Xbox 360

- Nintendo Revolution

What is a revolution, but a 360 degree turn?

Of course, if the similarity was intentional, why wasn't the Sega Saturn followed by the Sony Jupiter or the Nintendo Uranus? I could see a system being called Jupiter, implying a larger and more prominent system, but something about the idea of plugging a controller or inserting a cartridge in Uranus could be misconstrued...