The 3DS would have been ok if they hadn't done DSi and DSiXL and DSLite and DS. They either needed to make it super clear it was a new system with the DS2 or renamed it altogether. While I agree that Wii U may have similar issues, I think it will be less simply because they haven't had 4 Wii models with the same name.
Am I the only one thinking Nintendo maybe should start using new names for the devices a bit more? Instead of having things sound like an upgrade ie: DS to 3DS and Wii to Wii U they should come up with some new brands.
The whole Wii U thing especially I'm sure is going to just make people think it has a new controller in part due to the name.
Not until after the desperately needed price drop (in the case of the 3DS).
I always thought they should of named it the Super Wii.
and people don't think the same thing with ps1/2/3 because that's a usual pattern that they are used to when it comes to new hardware
Nintendo releases new revisions of hardware that aren't successors with just an added letter or 2 to the end, ie. DSi, So when they see that they just think it's the current thing but slightly improved, but not a whole new console.
when they also use it for a new console it causes confusion.
Number+1 is pretty easer to understand. As is a higher catchy number (or a number where one wasn't before).
As much as I understand the "We, You" name, I still think they should have gone with Super Wii for old times sake.
Yeah, sequels are kind of ingrained into our culture. People can count.
I concur with "Super Wii" but they may have avoided that one for the obvious jokes that they already got with the Wii... WiiU is a little harder to joke about.
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Not until after the desperately needed price drop (in the case of the 3DS).
and people don't think the same thing with ps1/2/3 because that's a usual pattern that they are used to when it comes to new hardware
Nintendo releases new revisions of hardware that aren't successors with just an added letter or 2 to the end, ie. DSi, So when they see that they just think it's the current thing but slightly improved, but not a whole new console.
when they also use it for a new console it causes confusion.
The official names are trying too hard to be clever.
Yeah, sequels are kind of ingrained into our culture. People can count.
I just find that hard to believe sometimes :P.
I concur with "Super Wii" but they may have avoided that one for the obvious jokes that they already got with the Wii... WiiU is a little harder to joke about.
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