Official Wii Thread
 

Nintendo announced today that the new name of the Nintendo Revolution is now Nintendo Wii. As in "we".

The official site has some information on why it was changed.
http://revolution.nintendo.com/

And here is Gamespot's site in case you want to read a little more in depth.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6148462.html

I knew they were suppose to announce it around/during E3 this year but I was expecting some a lot different.

Wii :wtf: Shoulda just left it Revolution.

That is absolutely retarded.

Should've just called it the AWESOME-O

Next thing you know, the games Nintendo reveal at E3 will be on the same level as SNES games :|

Oh, they've already started. :lol:

My intial reaction was like what the fuck, but after time it sinks in, I'm starting to like it. A name matters not, Revoultion was cool, but Nintendo aren't about the name, its about the games.

This is better than Playstation 3 or Playstation 87 or whatever. It's all about the way this console, it's games and the controller plays for me, because I haven't been impressed by XBox and it's next gen at all.

:|

So fucking retarded. They're already isolating their fanbase by releasing the remote as the main controller. Who wants to go into a store and ask "You got any Wii left" or "Do you have any Wii in"? It sounds so dirty in a bad (stupid and pointless) way. :nono:

Wow, way to mix up your mission statement with your product name, Nintendo.

Like I said at Kapoutland, you can officialy call me a Playstation fanboy now.

Nintendo's only got the DS and the upcoming Zelda game on GC to keep my interest now.

Let's just hope we get some (good) bombshells at E3

Yeah. Nintendo started to lose me with the Gamecube, which to me was my "Retro Relived" console. Seriously, the majority of my Gamecube games are compilations of old games, arcade games or re-releases.

The only Gamecube-gen games I like are Animal Crossing, the WWE series and Wind Waker. Everything else (Gamecube-only games) I own is shit to me.

Just like they made the Virtual Boy work, eh?

I just see the Revolution as the new Virtual Boy. Huge, stupid gimmick with a popular company backing it. Nintendo knows they'll make something off of this because the hardcore Nintendo fanboys will buy this if the controller was one giant ball that you threw at your television.

So when will someone release the "Wii Wii" attachement.







The "Wii Wii" attachment, of course, will attach to your cock for simulated sex.

Hey, does the controller vibrate?

Holy shit, this is one very dirty gadget.

I'm so upset right now. Only mindless porn will cheer me up. :(

Was it ever useful in the history of the gaming company itself?

Now the fans, they're a problem. So many useless people who think Nintendo can do no wrong and everything is innovative and brilliant.

Nintendo's got a rabid fanbase who will jerk off over everything. You should see some people talk about the Lite, like it was the second coming of Jesus (If you're not Christian, replace Jesus with YOUR Hero, they're about the same age, but Hero's more impressive).

They probably renamed it because nothing so similar to the CD-i can even be called a revolution with a straight face.

my fucking god

At first when I heard it I just kept laughing inside and then I kind of accepted it thinking that it was horrible but it's not like the name is going to affect the console. Then I started thinking about asking people over to play some Wii and I am back at hating the name.

I can see them wanting to change the name because of the 360 and all but they really shouldn't have. This console makes me feel like they are going to try and take every risk they can and see if they bomb.

ROFL its not even pronounced 'why' its 'wee' as in like urine.

I figured as much. But I made the joke a few months ago as well.

Also, at least the "DS" makes sense. It has dual screens, so it's called the DS. What does "Wii" stand for? The only thing I can think of is something to do with WiFi. After that, I can't imagine it being called that for a reason.

As Mike said, here's the speech (pulled from revolution.ign.com):

Introducing... Wii.
As in "we."

While the code-name Revolution expressed our direction, Wii represents the answer. Wii will break down that wall that seperates videogame players from everybody else. Wii will put people more in touch with their games... and each other. But you're probably asking: What does the name mean?

Wii sounds like "we," which emphasizes the console is for everyone. Wii can easily be remembered by people around the world, no matter what language they speak. No confusion. No need to abbreviate. Just Wii.

Wii has a distinctive "ii" spelling that symbolizes both the unique controllers and the image of people playing it. And Wii, as a name and a console, brings something revolutionary to the world of videogames that sets it apart from the crowd.

So that's Wii. But now Nintendo needs you. Because it's really not about you or me. It's about Wii. And together, Wii will change everything.

:wtf:

They named it after the baby talk name for piss.

It's still the revolution to me.

If Nintendo was smart they should keep the revolution moniker for the US.

To people who thought it would be awesome from the start...

I have been completely turned off from the whole thing since the controller was announced.

:heart:

Funny thing is, they called it DS because it was a "Developer's System."

Wow. So they think that changing the name like that makes it what...Clever or something?

Because thats what you do when you're having fun. You refer to yourself and some other people.

weeeeeeeeeeee

In France it will be the Nintendo Yes.

I can see playground bullying coming from this:

Kid 1: I got a PS3, what do you play with Kid 2?
Kid 2: I play with my Wii.
*Kid 2 gets bullied for eternity*

But seriously I can see where they're coming from. It's not too bad as I'm an adult and socialise with other adults who will understand why I play a console named Wii.

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Sto...1154.38678.htm

That name sucks.

I am so fucked off with this it's crazy. Revolution was good enough and now they're pissing about. Honest to god, I am calling it revolution until they actually REALISE what a stupid fucking name that is and change it back. They can fuck right off.

Wii will Wii will rock you

That's wiitarded.

A working title really doesn't count as a working title once it's been treated like this. Honestly, when you're putting up subdomains and announcing it to the public, it's no longer a working title.

...Unless you're George Lucas.

Well, if they keep the name through E3, it'll stick.

Otherwise, they'll say it was a late April Fool's joke and change it to something, you know, less stupid.

This will be a bit of a rant...

I just had a thought on another forum replying to a fanboy who asked what my "ace in the hole" against Revolution/Wii is.

One, Resistance. Swords have weight. Fishing poles have resistence. You aren't going to get a good experiece out of playing with a remote control. Go ahead, pick up your remote and pretend you're flailing a sword around. You won't feel much.

Two, third party support. This is basically a given since the Gamecubed bombed on it.

Three, retro games. There is something TERRIBLY wrong if you have to rely on SELLING OLD games to sell your NEW console. That proves that they're clearly not looking at this generation as a money maker for new games and they clearly don't have faith in it. Their biggest selling points are a remote control and old games that if you like you probably already own.

Nintendo relies on gimmicks.

But I have to argue about resistance. Most guncons don't have recoil. Vibration doesn't make you feel like you just got kicked in the gut. Steering Wheels don't feel like a real car's, nor do you get the sensation of turning.

Otherwise, yeah. The Third Party Market will be pretty dead for the Wii. Even with a controller add-on to have a normal controller simulation, it's going to be too alien a system to mesh with mainstream.

And the games from the past being a selling point is pretty much proof of how weak the concept is.

But then, Philips found that out the hard wya.

And another problem is the multi-console game. Never mind limitations, I've always said that if every single game didn't use the motion sensor in one way or another it's completely wasted. And that would mean not only rewriting graphics, game size, etc, but also implementing at least one thing with the motion. That's not going to look pretty.

As for the motion, I don't know, I just can't buy swinging something like a remote and thinking it's a sword. At least the guns look like guns and the wheels are wheels. This is an elongated brick with buttons.

I've also brought up problems with personal injury. Flicking your wrists around with this is going to put MUCH more stress on them than holding a controller. I've been playing video games since I was about three (probably more than the average boy) in addition to years at a computer, and suffice to say I've got multiple problems with my hands.

Ever see that Simpsons episode where Bart makes a comment about writing on the chalk board and his wrist sounding like a cement truck? That's me. So I'd hate to have had this kind of technology back then, as swinging and flicking your wrists has to be much more dangerous than keeping your hands on a controller.

Why even make the sensors if every game won't use it? If they take that attitude, it'll just go to shit and only be used for menus and shit instead of gameplay.

The way your fingers will be positioned (thumb on top, index on bottom) won't make it much better.

But my point wasn't the positioning, it was the actual movement of your arms. I can't see how flicking and flailing your wrists around (as that's how most people will do it) is good for your wrists.

Swinging and flicking your wrists has to be much more dangerous than keeping your hands on a controller?

Right.

Inform our discus throwers, our bowlers, our baseball players, and our frisbee players. Inform the golfers, the basketballers, and the fishermen. Inform the guitarists, bass players and drummers. Tell them all that they'd be better off sitting motionless on a couch developing cement trucks at the end of their arms. Come on.

If you're really that worried about your fragile wrists snapping, you might be pleased to know that a) there are GameCube ports on the Wii so, at the very least, there will be some games that won't break your mixers; b) the whole "nunchuck" analog stick attachment suggests that you might even get to try something new without harming your wrists by violently flailing and swinging, and; c) that Nintendo have announced a "dock" for the remote-controller, which will adapt it into a more "traditional" wireless controller anyway.

Did you guys hear? Sony has officially announced that the PS3 will be called the PuPu when it launches.

I think that is probably the most juvenile joke I could have made here.

Beat me to it!

Well is you want it realistic then you could buy this.
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/8...ontroll7ul.jpg

I think I would be so embarassed playing with that controller. Even if I was alone.

Just wait for it to get recalled when some kid from San Diego puts on a green sweater and stabs his little sister for eating the last cookie from the jar.

A few?

It seems like Mike is the only other one agreeing with me on this, but Wii is only a name. People ragged on Nintendo for the N64 saying it was too simple of a name and you are still all acting pissed off because of a fucking name. I don't care what's written on the front of the console, I want to have fun playing it.

Yes, the name sounds bad, but who cares if the games are as good as what Nintendo usually develops? There is a lot of third party support already announced for the Revolution, as the Gamecube actually helped Nintendo regain some of the support it lost with the N64.

In the end, I don't care if I'm playing a "Nintendo Poop" or a "Playstation 134¼". I just want good game for the system.

It's more then just a name. The name sums up the console. Revolution worked because that's what they were going for with the console and the controller specifically. Wii just sounds like they were trying to think of something that could be used in a lot of tag lines.

Overall, it does affect the console.

I know its just a name but, who is going to ask for a Wii for Xmas? I can see everyone who asks for a wii getting directions to the toilet instead.

"Now you can go and get that wii, of yours!"

Ps3 and stuff works better because its called Playstation, a console you already own and the number at the end means its new but its familiar so people will have more trust in it and buy it. Thats how I see it, anyway.

It's nothing more than a name. I will go to the counter and ask the clerk for a "Nintendo Wii", and a lot of other people will. That's because few people past the age of 12 care about what a store clerk thinks about them.

If you're put off just because the name sounds like pee (which didn't even occur to this Frenchie), you'll probably be missing a lot of great games just because you think it doesn't sound "cool". I think that it has been proven countless times in the industry. A name doesn't mean a thing. You can call your game/system by any weird name, as long as it gets some publicity and the product is good, people will buy it. I'm not even talking only about Nintendo here.

I could care less about the name. It would not really affect my decision to purchase the console or not. I am put off by the other aspects of the console.

To me, the name Revolution was the only thing Nintendo had going for this console.

Yeah if I was interested in the console, I'd still buy it regardless of the name. I'm not that intesrested though. I did prefer Revolution to Wii, though.

Mike, Guy... you 2 need to take a marketing class. The name can make all the difference in the world.

Try:

I'm finding the name change to Nintendo Wii hard to swallow.

I remember the Nintedo Gamecube having the working title Dolphin. Does that mean the Gamecube is badly named for the same reason?

Seriously, like the guy in the interview mentioned, it makes *no* sense to give something like this a name which requires cliff notes to fucking understand it. Do you get a free dossier at time of purchase explaining how the machine was created?

It has ZERO commercial appeal. It's all well and good saying "we want to expand and create new gamers" yadda yadda...they are going to do nothing but alienate people with the way this entire project is going.

And what is with this bullshit "well the two i's look like people!"? What? What amount of crack had been consumed when they came up with that? Does DS look like a snake going over a hill? WTF SERIOUSLY.

Terrible name.

Actually, I doubt I'll be missing many great games at all.

Nothing on the DS has hooked me, save for Advance Wars DS and Meteos. Most of the other games are gimmicky crap and/or get boring fast.

GCN turned off a lot of gamers because ofthings other than the "kiddy" label too. People were turned off by the small discs (Which, if use properly with the GCN's compression, should be more than capable of handling anything a DVD-9 can do, but almost no developer went that route, instead saying DISC TOO SMALL and moving on). They were turned off by a lack of solid third party support.

Wii will be in the same boat. The controller's a turnoff (Where it's supposed to be bringing everyone together, it's perhaps the biggest dividing point), the probability of weak 3rd party support is a turnoff, multiple attachments is a turnof, the back catalog speaks of what they're expecting their currents to look like (Though to be fair, most of the time nintendo just ports old games to new systems, gets called brilliant, etc., so this is nothing new), and it's still aout a generation behind the other systems in terms of the features folks are looking for.

Wii is just the tip of the iceberg.

Nintendo didn't put up a subdomain at dolphin.nintendo.com. They didn't put updates on said nonexistant url for the dolphin. Much dolphin news was leaked and was still understood to be a codename even when it wasn't.

Nintendo didn't get this far into the hype process before changing its name.

Dolphin wasn't practically a household name already associated with the Gamecube. In fact, MOST people never knew it had the codename dolphin (And most people are unaware that, aside from the DS, pretty much every system from Nintendo in the last 15 years has had a codename pre-release).

I'll repeat that: Dolphin was not already heavily associated with the GCN.

Hell, most of this I already said; I'm just hoping that maybe your mind'll catch some of it now that it's being used within the context of the Gamecube.

Fucking hell.

Have you ever heard about marketing? Of course it won't have an effect on people like you who would have bought it anyway. It will probably have an effect on the potential new customers.

So registering a subdomain despite telling everyone in the world, on multiple occasions, that Revolution was only a code name makes Nintendo wrong for changing the name of the console. Revolution isn't practically a household name at all, only really with gamers and maybe people gamers have talked to. If I said to my step-sister, or dad, or about half of my friends if they knew about the Nintendo Revolution they wouldn't know what I was talking about. It's not really had mainstream coverage, I've heard it mentioned once when the controller was revealed on Radio 1 during the day time, where it had a whole 13 seconds dedicated to it. The masses don't know it as the Revolution, and now it seems they never will.

The Dolphin comparisson (looking back now) wasn't as solid as I first thought, but for the people that read the news then, anything about the future Gamecube was Dolphin news. People reading about the new info knew it as the Dolphin. Just not on as wide a scale because there wasn't anything particularly new coming with it - one of the main reasons more people knew about the Revolution was the mystery of the controller.

I've already caught wind of what you were saying, I'm just bringing up the other side because Nintendo aren't completely in the wrong, even though I don't agree with the change myself.

Dude.

I didn't say they were in the wrong.

I actually didn't even say it was a bad idea.

However, it is. Dolphin was never a household name, and they made a poor business dicision in changing the Rev's name after it became one itself. You said it yourself--Different scale.

So what the fuck are we arguing about?

They can rename their products after they're released. Call the DS the nii or some shit. It's their right to do so.

My argument was that this really wasn't a working title (And the Dolphin had constant remoinders, whereas the Revolution had more or less the total opposite), as they had been using it as more than a working title (Whether that was their intent, or not). Coming to the public with this level of promotion without a title is more or less unheard of, because (And here comes point two):

It's a bloody horrible marketing move to change the name of a product when it's already so associated, especially to something that needs a full brochure just to tell you why they made the change.

At the point you're trying to saturate the market with information on your new product, you're saying "yoink!" and damaging the work you've done so far.

No, Nintendo isn't in the wrong (As in culpable of guilt), but they shouldn't have done this.

All in all, wii just leaves a bad taste in my mouth...

...Hey, someone was trying for the most juvenile joke...

PS3,360...Wii
that doesn't sound right

haha, no way. I am still calling it Revolution.

"you guys wanna come see my wii"

"you guys wanna come over and play with my wii"

"Let's go whip your wii out and start playing man"

"fuck, just broke my wii"

Come on now, wtf?

All things considered, 360 is a pretty homoriffic name too.

I agree. However, it's better than Wii. 360 and PS3 are both pretty uninspired names, all things considered.

I don't know. It looks like we're stuck between "blatantly uninspired" and "gimmick masquerading as innovation."

Xbox 360 is quite ingenious. It was a play on Sony and Nintendo's next generation systems. A 360 degree turn is one full Revolution and it played well against Sony's Playstation 3. Both 3's gave it a sense of equalness.

Playstation 3, while just a number change, keeps everything that was good about the past two systems and sticks with it. So even though they don't have anything out yet, it's still a name that people will buy.

more like nintendo puu

I just read on Joystiq that in England, "Koch" will distribute "Wii"

You really like over interpreting.

I beleive it's pronounced "coke," which is pretty close to "cock," too.

I do what I can.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was an introspective of the human condition.

You're getting a Wii bit off subject. If Wii can just get back on topic.

It might not even be the actual name. Like this could all be one huge swerve and at E3 we'll get the actual name.

Even if it's not...I'm still buying it. It could be called Steaming Pile of Crap, but I'll buy it as long as the games are good.

So, not knowing what there will be for games, you've decided to buy it, hiding behind the hollow assertion "as long as the games are good, I don't care what it's called."

Do you question where I get the pot I sell you?