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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.'"
With Sony's poor financial health (go look it up; the PS3 will have to be a blockbuster in order for the company to remain profitable during the next FOUR years), and Nintendo looking more and more like a dying Sega, I suspected that MS will be the last man standing in the console arena.
By the time PS3 and Nintendo's Wii have established some degree of market penetration (1 year after release?) we'll see an Xbox 360-2.
The sad truth of the matter is that MS has the financial resources to manhandle Sony (especially given Sony's miscalculations regarding the PS3's costs and schedule), and the financial resources to bury Nintendo.
I'm not happy about it, but the console market today is starting to looking like the OS market right around the time Windows 95's release. I'm scared that after huge financial outlays Sony's going to have to sell it's console division, and MS is going to be sitting there with a huge pile of cash....
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I saw two guys kissing and that was the gayest thing I had ever seen until i saw the new name for the Nintendo Revolution... Seriousely, WTF is Wii. The revolution (although slightly cheesy name) has much more appeal that Wii. I bet they paid a marketing team a lot of money to come up with those three letters too. IT's the same crap from chnaging Longhorn (cool name) to Vista (incredibly lame)
The phrase "more better" is acceptable English. suck it grammar Nazis
"Wii" pronounced "why" has to be the question for this.
I mean, despite the crap name, what fucktard thought that custom optical discs would be a good idea? "Innovative" = "it's going to cost a shitload more to make than buying some commodity CD/DVD player, individual discs are going to cost a shitload more to make than commodity CDs/DVDs, and as a consumer you'll need to pay extra to play CDs and DVDs which other consoles can do as standard". So that's a *really* good marketing move, right...?
Whilst it's kind of fun to watch companies imploding following a succession of *really* stupid decisions, it's still a bit of a shame. Trying and failing is a worthy accomplishment, like crashing in F1 bcos you're pushing too hard. Fucking up by doing something that anyone can see is stupid, like trying to overtake on a chicane with walls on either side, that's just a sign of incompetence. Sadly there's a long list of tech companies who've done just that in the past (most notably Commodore), and Nintendo are just continuing the trend.
I know that if I had stock in Nintendo, I'd be busy selling it as fast as possible. In fact, hell, I'd have sold it at least 3 years back now, when they showed they had nothing to offer in the console market. The Nintendo car crash has been coming for ages now, and it doesn't look like there's anyone at the wheel to do anything about it.
Grab.
You American guys should just learn a thing or two about languages before immediately thinking this sounds like 'wee'. Do you also feel ashamed when you say 'we'? I can't think of a single reason why the double i should be announced as a single vocal. Can you give any example in any language where it isn't spoken as two i's in a row? Like i[pause]i.
Pshitt Cola! It was supposed to sound like a can being opened...
if only Americans knew that there are more accents to the UK than just cockney and RP, and if only I hadn't weasted my mod points :(