Chairman Kaga said:
Actually, Nintendo's never had a "crazy" system name before this. Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System were straightforward enough; Nintendo Sixty-Four was self-explanatory given you knew the bit capacity of the system, Gamecube was simplistic and fitting. Even Game Boy, Virtual Boy, and Dual-Screen were acceptable names; this is actually the first Nintendo system to not have a name that pertains to any aspect of the console; even Revolution had this fault, as it was a name that pandered directly to the pro-"innovation" fringe of the Nintendo fanbase, and Wii solidifies Nintendo's new message, that being "We don't need you if you're not completely and unfailingly loyal"; it almost seems to be an intentional alienation of the more mainstream Nintendo crowd.
Nintendo is far too full of themselves if they believe they can survive without pleasing all of their customers; the undeserved success of the DS somehow sent the executives over the edge; desperate for some small sign that people like their ideas, even if mere numbers and statistics convince them of this, they decided to one-up themselves in the "creativity" department, hence the incredibly-awkward controller whose shape was made as such simply to differentiate themsevles from Sony and Microsoft, and not in the interest of actually giving Nintendo patrons a better gaming experience. Their drive to set themselves apart as unique has been vain, selfish, and futile, as if one of the three major gaming companies in the world cannot already realize that they had a devoted niche market, they are oblivious to everything around them. Now, Nintendo has decided to concentrate loyalty at the cost of more widespread sucess by creating a niche within their niche; those who religiously follow Nintendo at any cost and unquestioningly accept their delusions. It works to boost Nintendo's ego; if they can only get rid of the people who question any aspect of their gaming "revolution" then they'll be told that they're the best and that they're right all the time by one-hundred percent of the fans without any note of dissent.
"Wii" is not an unacceptable name because of the entendres associated with it; in fact, only a very few of an exceedingly dirty mind were the ones who made such a connection on the day of the name's announcement. Most of us are upset because it is complete nonsense; that the fact that Nintendo had to go into such abstract terms to justify the name proves how superficial Nintendo has been regarding their new system overall. I'm horribly, horribly disappointed, and Twilight Princess will be the last scrap of money I ever give Nintendo.
You're totally missing the whole point of most of Nintendo's names.
Nintendo Entertainment System: It was a game system so it was an entertainment system. (Throw "Super" on it and you got the SNES)
GameBoy Pocket: Small enough to fit in your pocket (the first GameBoy was too big).
GameBoy Color: Was the first with a color screen.
GameBoy SP (Special): It was the first with a lighted screen (thus special).
Nintendo DS (Dual Screen): It has two screens.
Nintendo 64: It was a 64 bit system.
Virtual Boy: Sort of a Virtual Reality system.
GameBoy Micro: Since it's really small they throw in "Mirco".
GameCube: It's a game system and it's shape is cubed shape.
The Wii: The two "i" in there signifies two people (and maybe the shape of the controller).
If you really thought about it then you'll see that most of their names are stupid, not very much thought put into them and most have a meaning behind it.
But lets look at other systems, Wonderswan, Dreamcast, Odyssey, Intellivision all have fancy names that sound really really good. A lot of good them names did them.
All of their customers? Ok, sure they can try to go out and please all their customers but it'll never happen. I'd like a 200-250 price tag on the Wii. Robo on the other hand doesn't. But getting away from that...
Do you know why the success of the DS was so great? It was because it was something new, it was different and totally out of the loop. Not only does it make tons of more sells due to the better games. But also because it's better. How better you say? Well lets put it this way, in Japan the DS outsells all other systems (almost every month it sells more then the PSP and PS2 sells put together). Now that's strange for a system you say isn't good.
The Wii will be no different (it might not take top in the market but it isn't going to die). It's not going to flop or go off a cliff like you want it to. A lot of people do love the idea on the controller, just because you don't doesn't mean everyone agrees with you. A lot of the ones that knows about the controller now is pretty much open minded about it.
You may think Nintendo is "full of themselves", you may think Nintendo doesn't know what they're doing, you may think they don't try to make the customers happy. But it's not true, they know what they're doing. Like they knew what they were doing when they added a D-Pad to the NES, or an analog stick to the N64, or a touch screen to the DS. Now if you're too closed minded to look outside of the box and look past the whole "I know Nintendo is going to die because I don't like ..." then I don't need to sit here and type all this.
I agree that the whole "That's a dirty name" is only because people want it to be that way (when I think of Wii I think of the Canadian guy on X-Play).
It's a name, and by the looks of it no one is smart enough to understand that. If everyone wants to pull thair hair out because of the name "Wii" (for one reason or another) then by all means go ahead. Me on the other hand I understand it's a name, I'm not going to get all pissy about it (I think "Wii" sounds better then "PlayStation 3" or "XBox 360"), I'm not going to go out and say "You sorry Nintendo, I'm just going to call it the Revolution" and all that.
And if you want to be totally biased when it comes to Nintendo's stuff then by all means go ahead. By the looks of it you hate the DS sooo much. You remind me of Kevin, he played the DS in a store and said he sucks because you couldn't move around on Metroid. Got on MSN later and to his shock I told him you use the touch screen to move. Now how much time have you spent on the DS playing and using the touch screen? Or are you like Kevin, played it a few mins and said it's stupid? Same with the Wii, you'll say it sucks because it's not the normal style of playing. Well guess what, the normal "OMG OMG OMG LOOK AT THE GRAPHICS" style can't last much longer. As much as I hate Sony for taking the Rev idea, they understand this. That's why their controller also isn't like the normal style.
If you want totally old style then go out and get the 360 and forget the other two. If Microsoft keeps on this way then it'll be back to Nintendo and Sony again (because Microsoft will die out just like Sega, Atari and others).
