Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:47 pm
Mon May 01, 2006 1:36 am
ria wrote:Honestly, all the people who are making fun of the name are just proving that they are extremely childish and petty...
And those who make fun of it, obviously had no real interest or support of the Revolution/Wii anyway!
I decided, even after first hearing the new name, that I was gonna buy this console no matter what the hell it was called!
Any true fan of Nintendo should be able to look beyond the NAME of the console, and see that its gonna be truly awesome and extremely fun!
And if any of you disagree than that's your problem, not mine.
Mon May 01, 2006 3:10 am
Mon May 01, 2006 12:28 pm
Mon May 01, 2006 4:02 pm
Sat May 06, 2006 3:16 pm
Sat May 06, 2006 3:39 pm
arogance1 wrote:I don't think the name will stay as Wii.
After doing some digging about, I found out there is no Wii.com or .org or .net or .co.uk
Don't you think they'd have the website ready yet, even if it was just an advert saying its coming soon?
I think what Nintendo is doing is classed as "Viral Marketing". They intentionally choose a terrible name, so that people will talk to others about it, so instead of 1/5th of a school talking about it, they now have 3/5th, which is good as it makes people more aware of its existence. They spend less money on marketing, whilst reaching more people than a traditional ad campaign would.
On several game sites, like Gamespot, there was over 11,000 messages about the name change in a few days. You don't get better advertising than that.
So, next week at E3, they'll say something like "Due to popular demand (or something similar), we have decided to change it back to Revolution".
In the UK, think back to Coco Pops, when they changed the name to Choco Crispies and got everyone talking about it.
In the US, think back to New Coke when they changed the flavor for a few weeks then changed it back due to popular demand.
They intended to change it back all along, but it got people talking about it for ages.
Sat May 06, 2006 5:02 pm
Ixistant wrote:If Nintendo suddenly turned around and said 'Haha! We were just kidding!', so many people would abandon them and not take anything they do seriously.
Sat May 06, 2006 5:27 pm
Anoohilator wrote:Ixistant wrote:If Nintendo suddenly turned around and said 'Haha! We were just kidding!', so many people would abandon them and not take anything they do seriously.
Wasn't that the initial reaction by most people when they heard the new name for it? I know it was very close to mine