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How does Nintendo get out of this? • Page 4
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jellyhead 24,356 posts
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"Plug your wand into a vagina" might just have worked as a slogan as well. -
marilena 8,238 posts
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Registered 18 years agoChocNut wrote:
New Penny Arcade Comic up
Penny Arcade in "unfunny comic" shocker! -
Genji 19,682 posts
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Registered 17 years agomarilena wrote:
ChocNut wrote:
New Penny Arcade Comic up
Penny Arcade in "unfunny comic" shocker!
It's better than VG Cats. Although that isn't saying much these days.
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Wabe 169 posts
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Registered 18 years agoIMO wrote:
jellyhead wrote:
They do, according to google languages it is : 回転
Well, that certainly rolls off the tongue doesn't it?!
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jellyhead 24,356 posts
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Registered 18 years agoshhhh, Don't! you'll upset marilena. -
marilena 8,238 posts
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Registered 18 years agojellyhead wrote:
shhhh, Don't! you'll upset marilena.
Erm... What do you mean?
I've made at least two wii jokes today. And I've said that I don't like the name.
Maybe you feel the need to have everyone put firmly in one corner, but I'm really not in any of those corners. No matter how hard it may be for you to believe, I say what I think and I avoid letting fixed ideas get the better of me. Of course, nobody is perfectly balanced, but I do try.
But if calling me a Nintendo fanboy makes you feel better...
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May I ask how many people will actually change their mind (if they were planning to buy a REV) because it will now be called Wii? Nobody? Oh... -
opalw00t 12,836 posts
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Registered 17 years agoTelepathic.Geometry wrote:
Exactly. Most people are letting loose and having a giggle with puns and the like. I'm still gonna get one. It's only taking the pi-, sorry, mickey.
May I ask how many people will actually change their mind (if they were planning to buy a REV) because it will now be called Wii? Nobody? Oh... -
Hanafunda 361 posts
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Registered 16 years agoTelepathic.Geometry wrote:
May I ask how many people will actually change their mind (if they were planning to buy a REV) because it will now be called Wii? Nobody? Oh...
Yeah but they're trying to convince non-gamers to dabble into it. Calling it this isn't going to help in the UK at least
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Khanivor 44,800 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThe thing I don't get: Wii = We = community.
Aye, in fucking English. What about the few hundred languages out there where it means nothing of the sort? -
SirScratchalot 7,921 posts
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Registered 16 years agoUntil we all speak esperanto I can´t say I follow your point. -
ProfessorLesser 19,693 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI asked in the comments thread (god knows what possessed me) not long before Khani did, actually.
What exactly does 'Wii' mean to your average Japanese/Indian/Spanish/Turkish gamer?
Nintendo's reasons for naming the console 'Wii' completely break down. -
Hanafunda 361 posts
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Registered 16 years agoKhanivor wrote:
The thing I don't get: Wii = We = community.
Aye, in fucking English. What about the few hundred languages out there where it means nothing of the sort?
It's the International language my son. -
SirScratchalot 7,921 posts
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Registered 16 years agoProfessorLesser wrote:
I asked in the comments thread (god knows what possessed me) not long before Khani did, actually.
What exactly does 'Wii' mean to your average Japanese/Indian/Spanish/Turkish gamer?
Nintendo's reasons for naming the console 'Wii' completely break down.
Well, what does X-box mean in any langue but english? I´m sure they can figure it out. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoKhanivor wrote:Aye, in fucking English. What about the few hundred languages out there where it means nothing of the sort?
Who cares? In the first and third largest game markets it means piss what it means in Dirkadirkastan is an irrelevance. -
ProfessorLesser 19,693 posts
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Registered 17 years agoSirScratchalot wrote:
The Xbox isn't named that for any particular reason, though...
ProfessorLesser wrote:
I asked in the comments thread (god knows what possessed me) not long before Khani did, actually.
What exactly does 'Wii' mean to your average Japanese/Indian/Spanish/Turkish gamer?
Nintendo's reasons for naming the console 'Wii' completely break down.
Well, what does X-box mean in any langue but english? I´m sure they can figure it out.
It's like the joke in Die Another Day that I saw in German. The joke goes...
"I'm Mr. Kill"
"Now there's a name to die for!" Ho ho.
But in the German dub, it goes...
"Ich bin Mr. Kill"
"[insert German for "Now there's a name to die for!" here]"
Now... wait a second... that joke means nothing to any non-English-speaking German!
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Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoYes because none of the Americans in this thread associate it with piss either. -
phAge 25,487 posts
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Registered 18 years agoThat utter travesty that is Wii just made me realize how fucking brilliant Sony is. PlayStation. Doesn't have the über-nerdy connotations that Xbox does, but neither does it make you sound like a goddamned 6 year-old. Like Wii.
FFS Nintendo - mongtards.
/is angry that Nintendo have chosen to alienate not the non-games interested girlfriend, nor the non-games interested parents, but rather the pretty FUCKING games interested GAMES-PLAYER, who prefers not to sound like a complete retard when mentioning his new console. -
phAge 25,487 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAhab wrote:
Come on Ahab! You're teh Swede, right? You going to tell me that people won't look at you funny/walk away if you ask them "kommer du over og spiller lidt Wii i aften?". Eller "har du fået nogen flere Wii-spil?"
Whizzo wrote:
Yes because none of the Americans in this thread associate it with piss either.
Obviously some do (who doesn't like a reason to bitch and sound smart and witty), but it's a mainly UK English association. Not that I care.gif)
Thought not... -
phAge 25,487 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAhab wrote:
See my other post. Anyway, t'was more a comment on the fact that, in their search to find a name that is strange and zen-like, they've made sure that EVERYBODY is going to sound liek an idiot when they mention it. And I'm really, really hoping that the Revolution will make my girlf interested in games...
WTF are you talking about, you're Danish?
And are you saying that NEITHER your girlfriend, nor the parents will be alienated by this name, ONLY the gamers? Pretentious bastards, they deserve it then.
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phAge 25,487 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAhab wrote:
Bugger then - got you mixed up....
Hungarian, sorry :-D Anyway, I never ask mates if they want to come and play with the 360, PS2 or whatever, I just ask them if they want to come over and play? Videogames?
The point still stands, tho - you just. can't. mention that name in public. In any language. Its retarded.
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BartonFink 35,268 posts
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Registered 20 years agoFrom the front page:
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But Kaplan says Nintendo plans to stand firm - even in the face of petitions and the like - and plays the old 'no such thing as bad publicity' card: "Let me just tell you that if you're disrupted by it today, it's obviously caught your attention. And at the show, you're going to get to try out a lot of products that will make you happy."
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FFS now using a really stupid name is disrupting. Jaysus Iwata has a lot to answer for. Disrupt me bollix. Make a gigantic fuck up more like. Idiots. -
I suggest everyone calms down and reads a copy of this. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAhab wrote:and I take particular pleasure in the Brits being humiliated by Nintendo. I really really like that. Bwahahaha.
Perhaps the most bizarre statement since the announcement.
I don't think anyone is humilitated by this daft naming other than Nintendo. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoNo I'd suggest it means Nintendo are clueless. -
phAge 25,487 posts
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Registered 18 years agoBartonFink wrote:
+1
From the front page:
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But Kaplan says Nintendo plans to stand firm - even in the face of petitions and the like - and plays the old 'no such thing as bad publicity' card: "Let me just tell you that if you're disrupted by it today, it's obviously caught your attention. And at the show, you're going to get to try out a lot of products that will make you happy."
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FFS now using a really stupid name is disrupting. Jaysus Iwata has a lot to answer for. Disrupt me bollix. Make a gigantic fuck up more like. Idiots.
(Steve Ballmer, at E3 2010 - revealing the next Xbox)
STEVE: "I know a lot of you people have been waiting for it, and the wait is ALMOST OVER!
/dances
AUDIENCE: O_o
STEVE: Now, I bet you're thinking - "what could possibly be cooler than "Xbox 360"? Well, I think you'll ALL agree that we've found the PERFECT name for our new dream-machine... Behold the future! .... Behold!
/tears off shirt, revealing massive tatoo across his entire back, that simple reads "THE CUNT!"
AUDIENCE: O_O
Yeah - bad publicity is g-r-e-a-t... -
BartonFink 35,268 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI dunno are Nintendo going to use that now every time they make a gigantic clusterfuck?
'Oh it's ok we are Distrupting gaming' -
phAge 25,487 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAhab wrote:
LOL's at Ahabs frantic straw-grasping.
So, why don't you all have your own supersuccessful companies? Oh...the only person that does actually thinks the name wasn't that bad an idea? -
Wow Ahab's trolling is wiik tonight.
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