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Revolution Too Threatening
Miyamoto reveals why Nintendo went Wii.
by Daemon Hatfield
May 24, 2006 - When Nintendo announced the official name of its new console would be Wii, gamers the world over experienced a mix of disbelief, nausea, and uncontrollable laughter. The title was easily made into a toilet joke, and seemed to bring out the juvenile in all of us. In a recent interview with CNNMoney.com, Nintendo's own Yoda, Shigeru Miyamoto, explained the codename Revolution was thought to be too threatening for non-gamers.
Miyamoto admits he really liked the name Revolution, and at first wasn't sure about the new title. "When we first thought about it, myself and others felt that the name Revolution was very appropriate to what we were doing," he said. "But [Revolution] is a name that was almost threatening to non-gamers. It wasn't acceptable. So we thought this was more friendly and inviting."
Nintendo has been very vocal about its intentions to lure people who don't traditionally play games into trying the Wii.
The designer also revealed that while gamers were getting excited about the Revolution, Nintendo had decided to change the name to Wii more than six months before they made the official announcement.
Of course, most of us are getting used to the new name, and all possible jokes had been told 24 hours after the announcement. Many people have commented that it doesn't sound like the name of a video game system, and that's exactly what Nintendo is going for.
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Miyamoto reveals why Nintendo went Wii.
by Daemon Hatfield
May 24, 2006 - When Nintendo announced the official name of its new console would be Wii, gamers the world over experienced a mix of disbelief, nausea, and uncontrollable laughter. The title was easily made into a toilet joke, and seemed to bring out the juvenile in all of us. In a recent interview with CNNMoney.com, Nintendo's own Yoda, Shigeru Miyamoto, explained the codename Revolution was thought to be too threatening for non-gamers.
Miyamoto admits he really liked the name Revolution, and at first wasn't sure about the new title. "When we first thought about it, myself and others felt that the name Revolution was very appropriate to what we were doing," he said. "But [Revolution] is a name that was almost threatening to non-gamers. It wasn't acceptable. So we thought this was more friendly and inviting."
Nintendo has been very vocal about its intentions to lure people who don't traditionally play games into trying the Wii.
The designer also revealed that while gamers were getting excited about the Revolution, Nintendo had decided to change the name to Wii more than six months before they made the official announcement.
Of course, most of us are getting used to the new name, and all possible jokes had been told 24 hours after the announcement. Many people have commented that it doesn't sound like the name of a video game system, and that's exactly what Nintendo is going for.
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