Wii of the Worlds
I suppose it's necessary to chime in about the name. Personally, I don't care. I want one, and the name doesn't change that. I like Revolution better, but I'm okay with this.
I think people are looking at this the wrong way. Gamers are disappointed, it seems. And I say... so what? Nintendo isn't trying to reach gamers. The gamers who are excited about this have been drooling for months and will get it. The gamers who aren't weren't going to. The gamers who were in-between were waiting for the games, and we're still waiting for the games. However, Nintendo is trying to reach out to non-gamers, so a clever cute little "Web 2.0"-ish name is what they need.
Now this doesn't mean that I don't have my reservations about the system. For one thing, it's going to be a joke until the quality of the games changes the context of the word. Hopefully E3 will help this. For another, for how clever the name seems in the speech Nintendo delivered it with, they will have a hard time marketing it because they can't make that speech every time. This will mean that all the marketing will have to focus around a message that gets across that same cleverness, which makes it run the danger of their product branding becoming too much of a "one-liner." It doesn't allow much room for marketing growth... but then, neither did Revolution.
"Dual Screen"? "Gamecube"? Think for a moment about how silly those names are, trying to remove any context of the fun you've had with the systems. It's the games that make or break it, not the name. And as one astute person noted, naming the console "Revolution" is like naming your child "Jesus Christ."
I think people are looking at this the wrong way. Gamers are disappointed, it seems. And I say... so what? Nintendo isn't trying to reach gamers. The gamers who are excited about this have been drooling for months and will get it. The gamers who aren't weren't going to. The gamers who were in-between were waiting for the games, and we're still waiting for the games. However, Nintendo is trying to reach out to non-gamers, so a clever cute little "Web 2.0"-ish name is what they need.
Now this doesn't mean that I don't have my reservations about the system. For one thing, it's going to be a joke until the quality of the games changes the context of the word. Hopefully E3 will help this. For another, for how clever the name seems in the speech Nintendo delivered it with, they will have a hard time marketing it because they can't make that speech every time. This will mean that all the marketing will have to focus around a message that gets across that same cleverness, which makes it run the danger of their product branding becoming too much of a "one-liner." It doesn't allow much room for marketing growth... but then, neither did Revolution.
"Dual Screen"? "Gamecube"? Think for a moment about how silly those names are, trying to remove any context of the fun you've had with the systems. It's the games that make or break it, not the name. And as one astute person noted, naming the console "Revolution" is like naming your child "Jesus Christ."