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Worst Name Change: Nintendo Wii, According to CNet

Posted Jul 12, 2006 at 9:06PM EST by QJ Staff

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Yes, you read it right. Along with Segway Polo, Kodak Easy Share On/ 6P, and X-Men: The Official Game, the Nintendo Revolution name change to Wii was included in the Top 10 Worst Technologies in the Quarter 2 2006. In case you're wondering how the then-controversial name change ranked in the list, it was ranked as the Top 9th Worst Technologies. They also added that Nintendo Revolution is cool, on the other hand, the Wii "sounds dumb". Harsh!

We earlier reported to you guys about this rumor from the grapevine that the Wii is again up for another round of name-changing. We even mentioned some names that are said to be being considered by the top honchos at Nintendo: Nintendo GameZone, Nintendo FutureNation and Nintendo GlobalBOX. When we asked for your opinion about it, you didn't disappoint us.

A huge bulk of the comments mentioned that when the name change came about, most of them were a little freaked out, but the Wii name just grows on you, and shortly thereafter, people became at ease with it. Most of the comments also mentioned possible names, but wouldn't want the Ninty next-gen gaming console to succumb to another name change.

So with this report from CNet, do you think this would affect the rumored name-change? How? Do you agree with CNet that the Nintendo Wii name change just sucks big time? Again, tell us through your comments.

On a more personal note, we would like to thank TheProfessor for the heads up.

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This was reported some time ago. It's not 'news' at all.

And CNet is wrong. The name is short, playful, memorable and easy to say. The initial shock factor of the name's sound/etc only makes it more memborable. The codename 'Revolution' got everyone's attention nicely that's deeply in to the game scene, but the name 'Wii' has drawn MUCH more attention to the system. To the point that CNet is unwittingly promoting it further.

The name 'Wii' has done nothing to hurt the console and everything to help it's success.

It also goes along with the current trend in web 2.0 naming. Kinja, furl, Flickr, etc. It's not a real word.

This is on top of all their other reasons... A 'fun' name, etc etc.

No, this is far from the worst name change ever and may possibly be the best.

Not best name, best name change.

# I think they should change it — Guest 2006-07-13 01:54

wii is a great name but it needs to be more realistic to what our games are going to be like... R kelly's wii-ness... R kelly's poo-poo doo-doo butter station. or something like P.O.O that would be cool.

# ***** you — Guest 2006-07-13 02:58

Wii is Wii, nomore name changes, and i got used to it - like thousands of other people....

# Why mess with the name? — ssj3fox 2006-07-13 03:04

Nintendo finalized it 6 months before it was announced. If they went through all of this trouble why change now? Everybody knows it by Wii and of they change the name again it will cause the same buzz the Wii did. Not as many people know the new name. The whole name thing is old hat. We're all into dogging things like "599 US dollars", "Massive Damage", and my favorite....

Giant Enemy Crabs!

http://www.cubetoons.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=107&Itemid=1

# omg — Guest 2006-07-13 03:07

oooollllldddd!! !

# Meh... — Guest 2006-07-13 06:18

I definetly wasn't happy with the new name, though I did feel that revolution needed to be changed. Oddly enough, I love the look of the word Wii on paper, it just sounds so horrible because of the other word(s) it happens to tie to. I suppose it's something like the word genetalia: If you didn't know what the word meant, it would make a lovely firls name, but sadly there are preconseptions that ruin that all together.

Of course, I wouldn't want them to change it now. There is such a thing as a worse name than the Nintendo Wii, and as mentioned, by now it's become fairly known, a second name change would only cause confusion.

Meow.

# wii is better — senjutsu 2006-07-13 08:22

because it appeal more on casual gamers with a sound. Like a child in a rollercoaster: "WIIiiiiiiiii" if you know what I mean. I suppose they concluded that wii is a sound of? joy! And I don't think "revolution" would be well received in the casual gamers ears...

Well, they put casual gamers on top of hardcore gamers... so if you are an hardcore gamer cry out loud in a crowd and then yell : "WII FU** YOU!!!" I suppose a lot of people will misunterstand but that only a detail ( lol ). And if you're a casual gamers just yell "WIIiiiiii" because you are happy with the name anyway!

or you can yell somethings like: wii will wii will wii will rock you!!

# stop — Branden 2006-07-13 08:38

i don't care about the name ant more it's tiring as long as i get the what ever it's called thing i'll be fine.

# Danm yooz guyz suxor @ talking englishes. — Guest 2006-07-13 09:30

It sucks that morons have vocal chords AND fingers to type with. You can't escape their ignorance anywhere.

# heh — Guest 2006-07-13 09:31

All of you people like the name now, your all twisted and 2 faced to one another, every single one of you were like....'wth is this..this a joke' and some people were saying 'oh flip this im calling it revolution..'but no the tables have turned and since its 'grown on you' Even if you said you DID like this, i pretty much certain you didnt, no one did : wii is a horrible name...face it..but im stilling getting one..and i aint bashing it. just saying i hate the name..not my cup of tea to be honest.

# ewrrwe — Guest 2006-07-13 11:54

I still think "Wii" is a retarded name. Didn't grow on me.

# Wii will rock you — Guest 2006-07-13 13:50

Wii Nintendo Will cahnge the world of intertainment andn othing any one ses will stop us.

# LolEr!!! — Guest 2006-07-13 15:02

LOL they said "Wii sounds dumb". They sure do 'sounds' dumb. CNet is a bunch of hicks.

# this is just olds — Guest 2006-07-13 15:19

ROFL, they sure like posting olds, not news

the name has been changed quite a long time ago, and now they are bringing this up? those people are pathetic! Besides, as long as it is a system that has great idea and good games, who da **** cares what the name is?!?!?

# Not a stupid change... — Guest 2006-07-14 17:20

I was talking to a few guys over at EB (one of which was from Germany) and asked their take on the change. They said that they thought nintendo did it for the easy spelling/pronunciation no matter what the country it was sold in was. I even learned that in German, the exact translation of "Revolution" was a profane word. Anyway, I doubt they'll change it again, this name "Promotes togetherness and is more creative than Sony's PS3" (Some guy from EB).

# Highs and lows — Guest 2006-07-16 14:34

the name change had its highs and lows. Lows being that alot of teenage pervs and just make fun of it. and that in the future we prolly will tell our kids and theyll call us gay. highs are it got manys peoples attention on it and people found out really wat the wii was. And millions of people can make stupid jokes like. Wii gonna buy the wii or wii love the wii ect. but the worst name change is alittle harsh especialy that when they play it thats not wat they goona think any more

# CNet.com is foolish, proposed new names suck. — Guest 2006-07-16 22:49

CNet.com is foolish. The Wii was bad at first, but now it's completely fine. It's fun to say and it's fun to play, right? :)

And, those name suggestions are AWFUL. The Wii was wacky, but those names suck eggs. Like, a month-past-it's-expiration-date eggs.

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