http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/29/a_wii_bit_more_attention_for_nintendo/Has anyone been following this buisness with the naming of nintendo's new console.
Everyones been in an uproar over how weak "Wii", the name is they picked. The net is full of people who are either defending the name or condemning it.
This guy seems to think that it's an elaborate plot by nintendo to draw attention away from the release buzz over PS3 and XBOX.
On the other hand, this is the point of the discussion where I start to ponder, suppose Nintendo is smarter than all of us. It's just over a week to E3, where Sony fans will be all giddy and running around like they have a Blu-ray chasing their tails. Amid all this, Nintendo announces a name change which is not only interesting, but controversial. You can't not notice it. Essentially, Nintendo steals more than a wee bit of Sony's thunder. Then, post-E3, I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo steals it back again, saying either, "It was all a big laugh..." or, in a more straight-faced manner, "We've listened to customer feedback..." and change the name back to Revolution. All right, so that's one of those "grassy knoll" conspiracy theories, but they'd get double their monies worth and finish up with more attention than what they started with, so I'd do it.
However stupid the name might be, this stupidity is generating a huge amount of PR for a brand that was fading into non-existence prior to now. Tell me, who had the "Revolution" on the top of their go-to list at E3, at this time last week?
As Oscar Wilde wrote in The Picture of Dorian Gray, "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." So, the Nintendo Wii: Crazy on the outside, ultimately self-defeating in the end? Maybe, but we're talking about it now, aren't we?
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