Comments on: When you're a kid and you wanna go "Wii" (but you ain't got drugs yet)

By: Critical Hits » Don’t Believe the Anti-Hype

Critical Hits » Don’t Believe the Anti-Hype — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:04:13 +0000

[...] the name Nintendo chose for their new system was. People reacted very badly, initially, and the name Wii was parodied countless times. People were jumping the gun to judge the entire console system not based entirely upon its name, [...]

By: Critical Hits » More on the Tragedy of Multiplayer (Spotlighting Wario Ware)

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:33:53 +0000

[...] name “Wii” caused a number of reactions in the online community, ranging from those who swore they would not buy it to those who thought it was an interesting name [...]

By: Critical Hits » The Christmastide Cometh

Critical Hits » The Christmastide Cometh — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:46:16 +0000

[...] Apparently these are some rejected or preliminary conceptual designs for the Wii and its controller interface. It really has to make you happy with what came out, going with the simplest and most functional but still aesthetically and commercially appealing is really the balance that the Wii controller achieves perfectly. I was sold from the very beginning, once I saw that the ‘remote’ design could be turned sideways to almost perfectly mimic a classic NES controller, I knew Nintendo had done right. [...]

By: The Game

The Game — Tue, 02 May 2006 04:06:12 +0000

Wil Wheaton comments along similar lines:
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2006/05/consoles_and_st.html

Gah, he made a much better reference with his post title, consarnit.

By: The O

The O — Mon, 01 May 2006 04:27:55 +0000

For those of you who don’t read Penny Arcade, or who haven’t seen this yet, you should.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic

This link goes to their most current comic, so in a day or so it won’t be the same comic. Just go back a couple strips and you’ll find it. It’s called “Whence Wii”. Enjoy.

By: The Main Event

The Main Event — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:50:29 +0000

http://wiiwillrockyou.ytmnd.com/

By: Bartoneus

Bartoneus — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:24:00 +0000

I think it’s extremely clever marketing toward a wide variety of nations, cultures, and ages. Yes, many people will think it is stupid and many other bad things, but in the end it has more meaning and is more interesting then a simple name like “Revolution” or “360″ or even “GameCube” and “Playstation”.

It shouldn’t be surprising that Nintendo is going out on a metaphorical limb, giving their system a name that is both a title and a symbol at the same time. Much like Half-Life’s lambda symbol, or the X-Box’s X. It’s out there, but I would like to make the argument that it is out there in a -good- way.