Nintendo Revolution Renamed 'Wii'

Retroneous writes "The Nintendo Revolution has had its name changed to the Nintendo Wii." Confirmation on the official Revolution site. Update: 04/27 16:32 GMT by Z : More information available from a Gamasutra article: "New details on the disc format have also been revealed: 'Instead of a tray, a single, innovative, self-loading media bay will play both 12-centimeter optical discs used for the new system as well as Nintendo GameCube discs. Owners will have the option of equipping a small, self-contained attachment to play movies and other DVD content.'"

WTF8

[iGN97]

"Because, it's really not about you or me. It's about Wii."

To quote Irwin Mahatma Fletcher: I R pissed.

Why wii? Confusion with Wifi?

[EmbeddedJanitor]

There was much confiusion between PCI and PCMCIA. What chance does Joe Average stand with Wii vs Wifi?

Re:Why wii? Confusion with Wifi?

[fbjon]

That might be on purpose, actually.

Re:Why wii? Confusion with Wifi?

[ChrisGilliard]

Or WIkI? or WIsconsIn? Or WIssIssippi?

Re:Why wii? Confusion with Wifi?

[MindStalker]

I'm watching and seeing no such things. If your refering to the balls it is throwing thats hardly a wifi reference.. More of a throwing the controller across the room reference! :)

Re:Why wii? Confusion with Wifi?

[Ford Prefect]

For bonus fun, if you pronounce it like "Wifi" but dropping the "f", you sound like a Northerner saying "wahey".

Why-aye, pet! Nintendo's a canny bastard fer choosing a name like that. Te can always tell when a Geordie's left the toon and got a job somewhere proper, aye!

Re:Why wii? Confusion with Wifi?

[victim]

Apparently it doesn't have 802.11 since Wii is what you get if you have No F-in Wifi.

Yes, I know it's too late in the thread for anyone to read this, but it needed saying.

Re:Why wii? Confusion with Wifi?

[fm6]

Your retail experience must be at Radio Shack. That's the only chain where the clerks throw around terms like "data transmission standard" and expect the customers to know what they're talking about.

Re:Why wii? Confusion with Wifi?

[fm6]

Actually, the big problem with Radio Shack is that nobody who works there knows as much as they think they do. For example, my sister recently got her first cell phone. She emailed me asking if it was true that you had to run down the cell batteries on a regular basis or they'd stop working. I immediately asked, "You got that phone at Radio Shack, didn't you?" Sure enough, she had. I then explained to her electronic gadgets no longer come with ni-cad batteries, and that lithium batteries don't have "memory"

N Wii

[Midnight Thunder]

Call it the 'N Wii' instead of the 'Nintendo Wii' and it doesn't sound so bad.

Re:N Wii

[thatguywhoiam]

Call it the 'N Wii' instead of the 'Nintendo Wii' and it doesn't sound so bad.

Ennui (ennui): Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom: "The servants relieved their ennui with gambling and gossip about their masters" (John Barth).

Hmmmmmm.

Re:N Wii

[MBCook]

Please note that ennui is a French word. It is pronounced "on-we", not "in-we".

Re:N Wii

[The Evil Couch]

N, wii!
When you're a kid and you wanna go wii
but you ain't got drugs yet
you hold on to your life
you hold on to your little gonads and strife

Re:WTF8

[Rogue Eve]

This is Wiik.

The Knights of Wii

[kniLnamiJ-neB]

Judging by the price of consoles, they'll demand a little more than a shrubbery...

The Knights who say Wii demand... a sacrifice!

Re:WTF8

[ctr2sprt]

Man, I gotta take a wicked Revolution.

April 1st was 26 days ago

[MacBoy]

Someone must have forgotten that today isn't April 1st, because this must be a joke.

Re:April 1st was 26 days ago

[RogueyWon]

It's not an April 1st. Right now, the only explanation I can think of which casts Nintendo as anything other than a bunch of utter muppets is that this is the first half of some multi-staga announcement, in which it's revealed, once the initial furore has died down, that "Wii" is either an acronym for something less stupid, or the start of a longer name. For this reason, I'm holding back right now, for fear of being made to look stupid later.

However, I've commented on Nintendo's decade-old talent for self-destruction before, so it's entirely plausible that this is, in fact, nothing more than a really good example of them shooting themselves square in the foot again.

Re:April 1st was 26 days ago

[88NoSoup4U88]

I actually liked their explanation of chosing for Wii : The video [rewiredmind.com] also shows it quite well.

Admittedly, Wii does sound strange (and alot like 'weeeeeeeeeeeeee' :) ), but it also has something that makes one wonder what this 'wee-thing you just talked about' is.

Off record: If the Wii's can connect to eachother, would it be a 'wiiwii' ? And would I be in trouble if I told people I'm off playing with my friends and our WiiWii's ?

*cough* I'm sorry.

Re:April 1st was 26 days ago

[thatguywhoiam]

Off record: If the Wii's can connect to eachother, would it be a 'wiiwii' ? And would I be in trouble if I told people I'm off playing with my friends and our WiiWii's ?

Only if you somehow ran Be on your Wi, or perhaps coded something in C. (i know, i know.)

Re:April 1st was 26 days ago

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

decade-old talent for self-destruction

????

I fail to see how nintendo can be talented at self-destruction if they've been doing it for a decade.

I mean, I have no inherent abilities at self-destruction, but give me free reign at Nintendo & I'll run the company into the ground in less then a month.

Re:April 1st was 26 days ago

[chris_eineke]

I can think [..] that this is the first half of some multi-staga announcement

Of course it is! Next month they're going to call it wii-wii, then pii-pii. Then they're going to call it an accident and rename it back to Revolution, because it takes a revolution to potty-train a gamer.

Re:April 1st was 26 days ago

[joe 155]

You are right, about the code name thing... what I'm not sure about is how good it is to build up a brand idea around a name, such as revolution (or Longhorn for that matter), and then change it to something stupid sounding that people will feel silly saying, Vista/Wii (which I'm sure they must know is pronounced the same as the word for piss), and that people don't really know or associate with the product... shooting ones self in the foot, methinks

Re:April 1st was 26 days ago

[lucabrasi999]

What I'm less sure about is how good a name "Wii" is.

Well, at least they didn't name it "Monday" [com.com].

Oh man.

[Digital Vomit]

Please tell me it's April 1st in Japan. Nintendo Revolution was the perfect name. "Wii" (pronounced "wheeeeee!") sounds too stupid.

Re:Oh man.

[br0ck]

And it has just dreadful connotations..

I need to go Wii Wii,
ha ha, my wii wii is bigger than yours,
WII the second world war,
W2 time to pay taxes,
this little piggie goes Wii Wii Wii all the way home,
honey, wii need to talk...

Re:Oh man.

[buswolley]

Yeah pretty much..umm Wii? Does this mean someting in Japansese? Is this its tittle in Japan? Because if it is the American Name then American are going to call the Wii the Gay Revolution.

Gonads and strife... SHUT UP!

[tepples]

Is it pronounced Yo mutha fucka weeee! [albinoblacksheep.com] or Wheee! (nyeh nyeh nyeh) [youtube.com]?

Doesn't sound right...

[__aaclcg7560]

The Nintendo Willy?!

First Pun!

[fm6]

Wii not?!

As overheard at the retail counter+prank calls...

[JonTurner]

Something tells me this is going to get ugly. Just off the top of my head:

1) Shopper: "Hi. I see these are on sale. I would like to take a Wii."
2) Son, you've been playing with your Wii all day on that tiny monitor -- give it a rest or you'll go blind.
3) Headline: Wii usage linked to possible repetitive stress injury?

BTW, Is a cluster of these called a Wii-Wii?

Surely there are more jokes to be had... your turn, Slashdotters.

Re:As overheard at the retail counter+prank calls.

[fm6]

BTW, Is a cluster of these called a Wii-Wii?

"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!"
"You're under arrest!"

Re:As overheard at the retail counter+prank calls.

[Thorkytel Ant-Head]

Several points must be made here:

1. In America at least, "wee" is rarely used to talk about going to the bathroom. It's generally "pee."

2. "Wee" is not a term referring to a part of the male anatomy. If your joke requires doubling the name to be funny, then try a different joke.

3. If you think that "wee"is funny, you must have difficulty when people use the first-person-plural pronoun, or when people speak French.

4. Honestly, even grade-schoolers are too old to think that "wee"is funny.

Eight-year-

Re:First Pun!

[SetupWeasel]

what fucktard thought that custom optical discs would be a good idea?

The same fucktards that want to make pirating games difficult without breaking the game or your system.

Re:First Pun!

[thatguywhoiam]

what fucktard thought that custom optical discs would be a good idea?

The same fucktards that want to make pirating games difficult without breaking the game or your system.

The important thing here is: we agree that they are fucktards.

Oh Good Lord

[Synesthesiatic]

Wii Nintendo, Wii? Gotta say that's a very bad name. It doesn't make me think of video games at all, and opens itself to too many easy jokes (Wii Bother?). Maybe it sounds clever in Japanese, but I think the Revolution was a much better name for the console. But what do I know, I don't have a marketing degree or anything.

Re:Oh Good Lord

[selsine]

Remember it's pronounced "We" not "Why", so while there are still lots of jokes to be made, "We Bother" isn't one of them...

Re:Oh Good Lord

[keyne9]

Playstation? More like Gaystation. XBox? More like, "Crossed Cocks."

Seriously though, all names will be mocked. All names.

Re:Oh Good Lord

[mgabrys_sf]

Playstation and XBox can be turned into jokes. Wii - IS - a joke. Difference!

The biggest anoyance is the lack of proper pronunciation. I don't have to imagine long the amount of times irk-ed Nintendo fanboys will be explaining it to non-gamers, or the people with the purse strings this holiday season.

Probably as many who scolded others on such great names like INXS, Sade, And Prince's former name / mark / doodle (whose best pronunciation was "pbbbbt" by a Denver radio station DJ who refused to play along wi

Re:Oh Good Lord

[david.given]

Wii Nintendo, Wii? Gotta say that's a very bad name...

I can visualise the Penny Arcade strip already...

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/05/27 [penny-arcade.com]

Re:Oh Good Lord

[badasscat]

Wii Nintendo, Wii? Gotta say that's a very bad name. It doesn't make me think of video games at all

And "Revolution" does why?

"Revolution" makes me think of guillotines and blood running down rain-soaked streets to chants of "Vive la France!"

Not video games.

Anyway, "Revolution" is a name that makes promises that it can't necessarily keep. It's a good code name, because it's hinting at what Nintendo *wants* to happen. But it's not a good product name because once it's on the market for a while, people are g

It's Because They are Japanese

[Nazmun]

It's the only way I can justify their explanation:

http://revolution.nintendo.com/ [nintendo.com]

It's like a goofy choice for english wording in the middle of japanese anime, except in the real world.

Let them know what you think!

[aywwts4]

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/webform.jsp [nintendo.com]

Give them some negetive feedback, maybe, just maybe, we wont be able to get revolution back, but Maybe they will try to get another.. less absolutely horid name.

(hell, we got farscape back on the air)

Re:Oh Good Lord

[venicebeach]

It's WE, not WHY. At least get the jokes correct.

Seems to me one of the problems with this name is that it's not immediately clear how to pronounce it from the way it is written.

Clever

[Rydia]

Very clever idea, but I'm not sure that it's the best choice of name, exactly. Wii is just a strange name, and has homonyms with bad connotations. Plus, get ready to cue the british pisstakes "Hey, that smells of wii!"

Terrible

[ender-]

Man that's just terrible. The name "Revolution" had a powerful feel behind it, which I think would have been useful in its marketing against the Xbox360 and the PS3. "Wii" sounds diminutive and powerless. I hope they reconsider. Somehow, saying 'Hey I'm going to go out and buy a Wii [we]' just doesn't have the ring of 'I'm going out to buy a Revolution!'.

Maybe it's just mii though...

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Wii?

[gEvil (beta)]

Wuuuuh?

Wee!

[Fred Or Alive]

Urine!
No, I think you mean Wii.
But I'm a big boy now...

Seriously, this is possibley the stupidest name in console history, and that includes the Gizmondo.

(Reference: This Flash animation [weebls-stuff.com])

wee...

[sidb]

My initial reaction: let the namecalling begin. Wii Nintendo Revolution becomes too easy an acronym. I can't be the only one to think of this.

So does someone in marketing need to be shot?

[Shihar]

Maybe Wii has some deep meaning in Japanese, but it is a fucking stupid name for the English market. Wii sounds like a word a child uses for piss or a comment on someone's penis size; either way it isn't good. This almost reminds me of a story I heard years back about how an American car company put out a car under the American name in South America that name sound like "junk", "broken" or something like that in spanish.

Whatever the case, this is just a stupid move. It would be nice to think that people

Re:So does someone in marketing need to be shot?

[Quietust]

Maybe Wii has some deep meaning in Japanese

Considering the Japanese language hasn't used the "wi" sound (equivalent to English "we", French "oui", etc.) in native words since the language reforms over 60 years ago (at which point it was dropped down to just "i"), I doubt it.

The question now is...

[Hannah E. Davis]

... can we, as gamers, keep the name "Revolution" in use? I mean, Nintendo can officially change the name of the system, but they can't force people to actually call it that. I'd feel embarrassed asking for a Nintendo "Wii", but I have no problem buying a "Revolution"... so certainly hope that stores continue to recognize the previous name.

Re:The question now is...

[RyoShin]

This might be the best way to go.

If we can keep the "Revolution" moniker alive and well in gaming circles and sites, and only refer to the "Wii" name when talking about the name itself, we might be able to convince Nintendo that this was a stupid fucking idea.

Of course, names can be changed before actual release.

Ultra 64, anyone?

This still pisses me off, though. Even "Nintendo GO" was better than this.

Re:The question now is...

[Guppy06]

Yeah, I can't wait for Twilight Princess to come out for the Dolphin...

Re:The question now is...

[hal2814]

Fine then. How do we pronounce it?

This goes a long way...

[gEvil (beta)]

This goes a long way to putting to rest all that crap about Nintendos only being made for kids...

Weeeeee!

[spaztik]

The first thing I though of upon hearing this name was the Gonads and Strife [funnyjunk.com] flash animation.

Japanese name only?

[revlayle]

I wonder if the offical name for Europe and North America will be different? Much like NES and SNES was the Famicom and SuperFamicon (respectively) in Japan.

Of course, back then, those systems were released in Japan first and the original Japanese names were never used as part of the marketing campaign in other parts of the world.

also announced

[rayde]

it will be released in 3 sizes to combat the 3 colors of PS3. these sizes are:

Wii. Not so Wii. and FREAKIN HUGE.

Re:also announced

[rayde]

and to continue my own thread... this made me laugh out loud [ytmnd.com]..

"Touching is good...", "Wii-wii..." Oh My

[AudioEfex]

Just like the marketing guy who coined the "Touching is good..." slogan for the NDS, the guy who came up with this and thought it was clever needs to be a bit more in-touch (pun intended) with American culture.

Just like parents thought twice about buying a product for their child that kept telling you how good it was to "touch", it's going to be hard for self-respecting gamers to ask for a "Wii". And God-help us when the 16-year-old behind the counter at Wal-Mart explains to the nervous parents how the NDS will interface with the Wii, so the product with the catch-phrase "Touching is good" can be used to interface with your..."Wii."

I love Nintendo, and I think the new console is going to rock - but naming it "Wii" is like naming your kid Richard when your last name is Head; you're just gimping them unnecessarily from the start.

AE

Re:"Touching is good...", "Wii-wii..." Oh My

[rjstanford]

While I didn't know Mr. Head, I did go to school with a Michael Hunt. Went by Mike, naturally.

Re:"Touching is good...", "Wii-wii..." Oh My

[aaza]

"I was at school with a boy named Michael Hunt. We nicknamed him 'Fuckhead'. Hmmm...." - Tim, from the Doug Anthony All Stars

Re:"Touching is good...", "Wii-wii..." Oh My

[daenris]

My dad's college roommate was Richard Rash. I kid you not.

Super, 64, DS

[uberjoe]

So does this mean that all the games are going to be appended with Wii? Super Mario Wii, Zelda Wii, Metroid Wii? Or even worse Madden Wii? This has got to be the worst product name since the Kia Smegma.

I feel victimised

[mccalli]

This year, my Powerbook become a MacBook Pro and now my likely console upgrade has turned into wee.

Was it something I said?

Cheers,
Ian

A rose by any other name...

[192939495969798999]

They could call it the Nintendo crap bucket, doesn't matter. I'm still getting one so I can play all those old Nintendo games.

Re:A rose by any other name...

[fred_sanford]

Props to Mel Brooks [imdb.com]

Prince John: Such an unusual name, "Latrine." How did your family come by it?
Latrine: We changed it in the 9th century.
Prince John: You mean you changed it TO "Latrine"?
Latrine: Yeah. Used to be "Shithouse."
Prince John: It's a good change. That's a good change!

That Said

[Rydia]

People are overreacting to this. It may be a dumb name, but the majority of the population isn't going to instantly think "wee" and giggle, or worry about jokes on a playground. If anything, it'll get kids talking about it, and all publicity is good publicity. But the whining about the loss of the revolution name is a bit silly, people alternately saying that the masses are sheep for buying marketing while simultaneously talking about how they won't buy it because the name is so silly.

Actual reaction will doubtlessly be in between.

Re:That Said

[iapetus]

It may be a dumb name, but the majority of the population isn't going to instantly think "wee" and giggle

I dispute this claim.

Re:That Said

[Daetrin]

people alternately saying that the masses are sheep for buying marketing while simultaneously talking about how they won't buy it because the name is so silly.

I haven't seen a lot of people saying that. My perspective is that i bought a GameCube, i thought it was lots of fun, i didn't mind that it was a small purple cube with a handle. Lots of other people however made fun of it for being a small purple cube with a handle, they made jokes about lunchboxes, they said it was kiddie, they went out and bought

Re:That Said

[ad0gg]

I disagree this is a very bad name. Look at like this, are you really going to say "Lets go play some wii"? I'm mean seriously, wtf is nintendo thinking. They could of kept with tradition and just called it "super gamecube" or even used just used the code name "revolution" which is an actually a great name for a console. This ranks up with "ogg vorbis" in bad brand names. Brand names mean everything, look at "snakes on a plane", only reason it is popular is because of the name. Another good brand na

wii

[drwiii]

I fully approve of this name, even if it is one 'i' short.

Nintendo Wtf?

[Kenshin]

I think "Nintendo Wtf" would have much more universal recognicion than "Nintendo Wii", because "Wtf" is what I think when I see that name.

WTF?

I think people have the wrong idea..

[jonnythan]

It's not that bad. Really.

They clearly state that they intend to bring the video game system from "gamers" to "everyone else." "Everyone else" doesn't want an "X-Box" or a "Playstation" or a "Revolution" or a "Super Whiz-Bang Toy 2010." They want something simple, sophisticated, intuitive, and a little artsy. "Wii" fits the bill for that type of goal.

I don't think the name is going to appeal to the gamer sect at all, but then again the gamer sect doesn't really give a shit about the name - they care about how cool the games are.

Actually the gamers would probably buy any console if it said "Bad Ass Motherfucker" on it, but, barring that...

Re:I think people have the wrong idea..

[The One and Only]

Actually the gamers would probably buy any console if it said "Bad Ass Motherfucker" on it, but, barring that...

INT BEST BUY--DAY
JULES
Now, reach into that shopping cart and get my video game console.
RINGO
Which one is yours?
JULES
It's the one that says "Bad Mother Fucker".

DVD "attachment"

[DrXym]

Seems kind of stupid. Aside from being a way to fleece people for the attachment, there is no reason it shouldn't be able to play DVDs out of the box.

Phrasing

[omega9]

"I can't wait to get home and play with my Wii!"

"Want to come over and play with my Wii?"

"Will this run on my Wii?"

I'm sorry, but I can't find the right way to incorprate the Wii into conversation.

Yeah! The Good News!

[Shadow Wrought]

This is actually great news. See, every time Nintendo does something with a console, there is always one really stupid thing about it. With the wii (did I just really write that?) its the name that means that we can simply keep calling it the Revolution and it won't suck.

Kudos to Nintendo for getting their stupidity out of their sytem early, and in a manner which won't affect the machines performance.

All I can say is...

[abes]

wii are not amused. It's going to cause all sorts of havoc asking for it.

Me: Can I have a 'wii' please?
Irish counter guy: A wee bit of what lad?
Me: No, a wii. 'Wii you've heard of it, right?
Irish guy: There'll be no sort of that behavior in this store sonny!

Hilarious

[realmolo]

Seriously, that's the dumbest product name EVER.

I have a feeling that it's not going to last. In Japan, maybe "Wii" doesn't sound ridiculous, but in English-speaking countries, it sounds stupid. I'm sure Nintendo of America is having a nice long talk with Nintendo of Japan right now.

Re:Hilarious

[patio11]

The Slashdot Japanese discussion is full of people saying wtf, too. Check here -- well, OK, if you read Japanese. [slashdot.jp] My personal favorite is the folks who are saying "why are they naming it something that sounds like a little child peeing?"

What about Japanese?

[tktk]

Can someone fluent in Japanese tell me if Wii means something cool in the Japanese language?

Please? I don't care if you have to lie.

Re:What about Japanese?

[Anonymous Coward]

The "wii" sound is uncommon in Japanese; it doesn't mean anything.

How come I cannot type katakana into slashdot comments? It just deletes it.

Re:What about Japanese?

[Valdrax]

The short answer is no.

The longer answer is that Japanese obsoleted the "wi" sound many years ago, and the most common way of making similar sounds in loan words and sound effects is to use the two characters "u-i" instead. As there are no suriving Japanese words that start with "wi," unless there's some ancient meaning that only a classical language scholar would recognize, this is just nothing but a sound effect word, like "Wheee!"

Oh. I just saw the bit about asking us to lie. Hmmm....

Yes, "wii" is the way that nobles in the Sendai region used to say "ii" or "good." The use of ancient Sendai dialect evokes images of both the area's Tanabata festival and the legendary samurai Date Masamune. It is the spirit of big, brightly pastel colored floats and badass, one-eyed, moon-helmetted warlords that Nintendo seeks to evoke.

Re:What about Japanese?

[Braino420]

It's when a ninja is wailing on his guitar really hard.

Obligatory Monty Python Joke

[metal slime]

We are the systems that say "Wii!" Now I demand you bring me.....a mushroom!

Gollum

[Stormwatch]

Wii hates it, wii hates it, wii hates it for ever!

http://wiiwiiwii.ytmnd.com/

[casualsax3]

My contribution

Wee

[metamatic]

Instead of a tray, a single, innovative, self-loading media bay will play both 12-centimeter optical discs used for the new system as well as Nintendo GameCube discs.

Surely a top-loading CD drive like the Jaguar toilet seat [answers.com] would be more appropriate?

Congratulations, Nintendo. You're up against stiff competition, and we weren't sure you could pull it off; but with a branding decision like this, urine the running for sure. The guy who came up with this name must be a real whizz.

No doubt there will be a shower of solid gold hit software--a veritable golden shower of games. You'll be flush with cash in no time.

Re:And one Xbox to rule them all....

[SScorpio]

The Playstation brand has been keeping Sony afloat for a few years now. Unless they really mess up the PS3 in some way expect it to be a success.

Nintendo while not number one has been having constent profit, and has had one quarter in company history that was not profitable. This was causing by the extra investments and the USD taking a dive in value. But over 100 years of profit looks good.

Microsoft while a rich company does not have limitless funding. Shareholders will eventually get upset with all the money being pissed away. While it remains to be seen what happens this generation, I'd be extremely suprised if Microsoft killed off both Sony and Nintendo. Hell it will be surprising if the Xbox360 turns a profit 1/2 through it's life cycle.

Re:And one Xbox to rule them all....

[Manchot]

Shareholders will eventually get upset with all the money being pissed away.

Don't you mean Wii-Wii'ed away?

Re:Make it less useful, please.

[Rydia]

Because Nintendo doesn't want them to use it that way. Because no one actually uses their system for that, since they all have DVD players. Because people who don't want to use the system for that don't want to pay extra for a useless feature.

The list goes on and on.

Re:Oh no.

[shiznatix]

This is one gigantic step backwards. One, huge, gigantic step backwards.

Uhhh are you kidding? A name change in the product is suddenly a huge step backwards? And this was modded 'insightful'!? Whats insightful about a idiot saying a name change will make it a complete and total failure of a product!?

Re:Oh no.

[Guppy06]

I'd buy it even if it were called "OMG PONIES!"

Seriously though, if your buy/don't buy decision revolves around the name of the console (as opposed to the games, or even just shiney specs), then you're not the target audience. You don't broaden the game-buying audience by being all 1337, you instead make it approachable by people who are currently put off by exactly that kind of attitude.

If they were trying to be badass and edgy, they'd probably call it "Xbox" or something.

Why are you looking for validation of your masculinity in your video game purchases to begin with?

Okay, WTF

[RyoShin]

The Slashdot blurb has been updated.

Owners will have the option of equipping a small, self-contained attachment to play movies and other DVD content.

I really, really hope I'm reading this wrong, but my understanding of this statement is that the Revolution will have an external DVD player?

No chip I just pop in the back to enable DVD functionality. No special remote to use DVD functionality. No, it's an entirely seperate unit that you plug into the Revoltuion.

Why the fuck even bother with that? You can get

Re:Okay, WTF

[porcupine8]

Why the fuck even bother with that? You can get small-as-hell DVD players now for about $40 at your local Target

Exactly. I've already got a DVD player, as do most people. Whether the $40 piece of crap from Target or some tricked-out multi-disc-loading thing that cost hundreds. So why would I want to pay extra when I buy a game system so it can play the DVDs that I've already got my DVD player for?? I *sort of* understood the allure of built-in DVD players a few years ago, when people were still in the process of switching from VCRs. But now, most people have one, and unless yours happens to conk out at the same time you've decided to buy a game system (or you watched them on your old console), why would you pay extra for one in your new console?

Re:No way

[iapetus]

Perhaps the pronunciation will be regionalised. In Japan it will be pronounced 'Wee'. In most of Europe it will be pronounced 'Why'. In the US it will be pronounced 'Why? Dear Lord, Nintendo, why?' Only in Newcastle will it be pronounced 'Why-eye'.

Re:Add another one to the list of marketing mistak

[tutori]

Well, I can't speak officially, but I think an American company named 'Wang' has bigger problems than a slogan meaning something else in Britain.. Because really, and slogan involving Wang is going to be problematic.