Nous l’appellions jusqu’à maintenant la Revolution de Nintendo, eh bien la nouvelle console se nommera officiellement la Wii de Nintendo. Étrange n’est-ce pas ? J’avoue que je ne sais pas trop quoi en penser. J’aime l’originalité, mais je trouve ce nom bizarre aussi, surtout qu’il est tellement facile d’en faire des jeux de mots, au plair de ceux qui détestent Nintendo, ou aiment en rire. De plus, je trouve que le nom fait plus enfantin. Oui (Wii), il est facile à retenir, mais la Revolution allait tellement bien comme nom. Remarquez, si on appelle une console Revolution, qu’aurait eu comme nom la suivante ? Enfin… voici toutes sortes de remarques tirées de différents forums et tables rondes, certaines positives, certaines négatives.
Chris Roper, IGN PlayStation: Nintendo is ******* retarded. That is all.
Juan Castro, IGN PSP: At this point, I’m not sure it matters if Nintendo’s new system has a cool name or not. They want to attract infants and the senile, not the PS3 crowd. At any rate, “Wii” is no more cracked-out than the “Revolution” concept itself.Really, a wicked-cool name wouldn’t have made any sense. And in a way, “Wii” actually works. It’s a total, funkified gamble. Just like everything Nintendo is doing nowadays.
Daemon Hatfield, IGN News: …and just when i was starting to believe in Nintendo again…
Hilary Goldstein, IGN Comics: I died and went to comedy Heaven. Oh wait, you ******** are here. Dammit.
Andy Eddy, IGN Community Manager: On the immediate basis, it’s a weird, dumb, goofy, strange, idiotic-sounding and -looking name.But, I figure in a year or so, no one will really care. We got used to Odyssey, Intellivision, NES, TurboGrafx-16 (well, not really), SNES, 32x (well, not really #2), PlayStation, Xbox and other weird system and software names before, haven’t we?
Besides, any time someone questions whether Nintendo will survive its latest blunder, I repeat:
If you want to play Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Pokemon, Kirby and all of Nintendo’s other big-name brands, you’re going to have to buy Nintendo hardware.
And it’ll be no different with, uh, Wii…
(That said, though, I think everyone was getting used to Revolution.)
Matt Casamasina, IGN Wii: Well, one thing is for sure: I’m going to be able to make some seriously sweet headlines with this bad boy. Bylines, too. Just check it out:Nintendo Fans Unable to Swallow Wii
Community gags on the official new title for the formerly codenamed Revolution.Yes! Tell me that isn’t awesome?
At any rate, I’m not nearly as upset about this title as some. Claims that Nintendo has ditched any chance of success or thrown all coolness to the wind are, in my opinion, highly exaggerated. The name Google doesn’t exactly scream “cool,” either, but then again, everybody uses it. The product popularizes the name and not the other way around.
Wii, or Revolution, or whatever you want to call it, has not lost its potential. It’s still a slick looking machine and its innovative controller could still be kick ass. As long as there are great, innovative games, I don’t care if Nintendo calls the damned thing Anus Blaster 2000. I’m going to buy it and I’m going to like it.
Mark Bozon, IGN Wii: When this news hit, I’m sure I was one of the most upset and disgruntled of the IGN employees. I love Nintendo. Always have, and always will. Wii, however, is seriously pushing that love to new boundaries.There are so many reasons to be frustrated with the name. It’s seriously driving me crazy, as anyone in the LA office can confirm.
-Why is it spelled Wii? Did you need the iPod look that bad?
-Why not Revolution? It said everything it needed to, and it’s bad-ass.
-How is this simple for people? I can picture parents already. “I need the Why-Eye for my kid please…”
-How in the hell does this make my Grandma want to play? If this is a console for everyone, maybe everyone should be able to recognize the name, rather than nobody.
Now I’ve taken a ton of crap for my over-the-top reaction to this so-called “revolutionary” name, but in the end it really doesn’t matter that much. The Revolution is an amazing machine, the Virtual Console will rock, and I’m curious to see just what Nintendo has in store for it’s fans. While the name Wii won’t be stealing any image-conscious consumers from the 360 and PS3 stables, it won’t change how amazing Metroid Prime 3 and Super Smash Bros. will be. Revolution is a cool system, it’s got some amazing potential and I’m still excited about it.
Seriously though… why Wii?
I for one will continue to refer to the console as Revolution. When publishing on the site I’ll have to use Wii, of course, but that’s where it ends. I hate the name.
Seeing commercials to the song “We Will Rock You” will be pretty sweet though. That’s where it ends.
Here, I’ll do it: Worst console name ever
Actually, it’s probably smart. It will never be a good name for a videogame console, but it’s so unbelievably weird that it’s bound to have people talking. Plus, the whole iPod-ish marketing plan probably involves selling this to moms during programming on Oprah’s We network … think of the tie-in potential! And really, is anybody going to not buy a console because of its name? I bought a freakin’ TurboGrafx-16! – Shane Bettenhausen
What the holy hell are they smoking over there in Nintendoland? This is a classic cross-culture blunder; it may not be “bite the wax tadpole” but lord, it ain’t good. Although, I do appreciate that it opens the door to some awesomely bad urine jokes. – Joe Rybicki
It’s not the worst name ever. It evokes discussion much more then a name like, say, PlayStation 3. But it’s strange how much the game companies want to mimic Apple’s image. Tell me they didn’t originally want to call this thing the WeGame… – Ryan O’Donnell
Because it’s Nintendo it almost always seems to get a pass on stuff. Why? Is it because they always come up with some off-the-wall designs. More likely, it’s because they have an army of fanboys that would follow Reggie to the gates of hell.But seriously, though, WTF? Everyone knew it as the Revolution. Is that such a horrible name? Then again, I play games with a keyboard and a mouse. What the hell do I know? – Darren Gladstone
Nintendo continues with the tradition of being the “least cool” console. “Darling (gf or bf), I’d like a Wii for my birthday”…”Wii play lots of games on our Wii!”…”Have You Ever Needed a Wii So Bad?”Perhaps that’s not what they’re trying to do. Perhaps someone up in Marketing thought that Wii would be cool and catchy. Nintendo could have saved a ton of money on their Marketing and “hipness” consultation and paid me a grand to tell them that the name Wii, in fact, is not cool, not catchy, and not good. I hope at least the console itself is cool…what’s in a name right?
I can’t wait to start using Wii around the office as a common term, like we did for Odama.
Do you want to play with my Wii ?
Putain c’est vrai. Fini Che Guevara!!
Excellent nom de Nintendo et excellente console. Pour moi ça relance présentement tout l’engouement vers la console. Le petit vidéo est très cool et ça en fait un objet très Hi Tech. Vraiment spécial comme nom et la manière de jouer en sera certainement plus caractérisé, unique. Un nouveau boom pour Nintendo qui présentera lors du E3 probablement la conférence la plus attendue. Tout le monde voudra en savoir plus sur ce “nouveau” projet. Wii… Tout à fait dans l’idée nouvelle et moderne que je me fais des nouvelles consoles de Nintendo. Ça peut donner un nouvel élan à leurs franchises qui porteront des noms avec ce code. Vraiment pour moi c’est rassurant de voir la direction que prend Nintendo. – Neroli
Je ne suis pas surpris que le nom officiel ne soit pas “Revolution”. Le problème avec un nom comme “Revolution”, c’est le produit qui vient ensuite. Comme dans la lessive, par exemple “Tide amélioré”. Le prochain tu le nomme “Tide encore plus amélioré” et l’autre “Tide toujours plus meilleurs que celui d’avant amélioré” et ça n’en fini plus.Wii ça sonne quand même bien, et pour moi ça sonne jeune. Nintendo, pour moi, représente une console et des jeux pour les plus jeunes alors c’est cool.
(Oui, oui je sais, il y a des jeux plus matures sur Nintendo, mais que voulez-vous, c’est ça qui est ça) – cro
anybody who bashes this WILL DIE!
BAD. IDEA. BAD. IDEA. SOUNDS LIKE “WEE”. BAD FUCKING IDEA.
Did you guys know that the system’s controller is a remote? That’s different. Ew. What’s next? A first person Metroid? I hate different things.“Revolution” would have never worked from a mainstream approach. Consumers wouldn’t think of the console off the bat like we do. They’d think of a literal revolution first.
let make a petition against this stupid name!
Who cares?If the games are good it won’t matter.