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It is the best joke.
3DS is about as close you'll find to a tacked on number. Which is the result of clever marketing and wordplay since it's a DS with 3D.
Kinda hard to really do something that would differentiate the next console from the Wii if you stick with the Wii name. People know the Wii is Nintendo, so as long as Nintendo markets it as Nintendo, they should probably be fine.
I honestly wouldn't mind if they just called it the Nintendo Entertainment System. Reboot the NES brand, so to speak. Especially if they start integrating more entertainment services like NetFlix and movie rentals and such through the device like they started doing with the Wii in Japan. My biggest hope for the next gen is just that Nintendo and some third parties start to communicate more and third parties actually put some quality titles onto the system instead of ignoring it like they have Nintendo's home consoles for the past decade.
Don't get me wrong, some good stuff ends up there, but it's not a secret that third parties have some sort of aversion for Nintendo's consoles and putting their primary money makers on it.
SWii.
Wii're running out of ideas
You are thinking of "Nintendo."
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You turn 360 degrees and then keep playing it because you're back where you started.
That is literally the exact opposite of the model they are currently using
then, some morning radio show could do a contest where you hold your bowel movements, and a heroin addict could win handily.
Brand recognition is a powerful thing. They kept the Nintendo theme throughout the first three generations because that was what worked. If you played a video game, you played Nintendo. Then the PSX N64 era came about, and Sony beat their ass down. They made the Gamecube, which was similarly not the runaway winner they had hoped.
The Wii, in many respects, represents Nintendo's rise back into market-share power. Like you said, it does have powerful brand recognition now. It also makes sense that they would bring their console to market quicker than the rest of the pack: their system is ahead in terms of control schemes, but behind in pure power. Hell, the Wii2 could just match the PS3 or 360's graphical potential and keep its control schemes and I think most owners would count that as a worthy upgrade.
http://nintendo3dsblog.com/wii-hd-to-be-revealed-at-e3-2011
Man, my friends and I had a lot of fun with Crystal Chronicles!
Most of the time it was just GRAB THE FUCKING CUP, NO, YOU DICK, YOU COME BACK HERE WITH THAT CUP, GREAT NOW WE'RE ALL DEAD.
Point being, complaining about the name is silly.
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What are you even responding to
it rhymes!
He's really not.
There is a legion of people out there who bought Wiis who normally aren't into games. They think of using their console as "playing Wii"
It's just like I never say "I'm going to play some Microsoft" or "I think I shall fire up the Sony."
For new market that Nintendo has managed to tap into, Wii is the thing. They are aware that there is a company called nintendo and that the company has a long history, but they've never been into games until now and so that doesn't really matter.
Nintendo's positioning (in the marketing sense) has been really amazing to see.
Crystal Chronicles was awesome.
Also, Zelda Four Sword Adventures used it and it was super fun.
The best part was the voting after each level who was the most helpful, and who was the biggest jerk. Could completely turn around who had the most rupees at the end of a level.