The New Nintendo Console

Since I’m not the only one aghast at what Nintendo has done for their new console–for those of you not interested in the developments within the gaming industry, Nintendo has announced the name of their upcoming new console is “Wii” pronounced “We” is in “We are going to the movies,” or “That baby has a tiny wee-wee.” In an effort to Stop The Madness, I list some alternatives for how gamers can refer to the Wii Console, which still makes me giggle just saying it.

Courtesy of JH who posted on my GameAxis blog entry: That Nintendo Console.

I also offer up “The Nintendo” in honor of simpler days when kids would say to each other “You wanna’ play Atar/Nintendo?” back in the 80′s and 90′s.

For Singapore, which is mad about acronyms even when they’re actually longer to pronounce than the word itself, there is “Double-u, eye, eye console.”

For people looking for something a little more politically incorrect, and considering they lost, something which, prophetically, may happen again with this generation of console wars, they can refer to it as “WWii” or “World War Two.”

For the stubborn, there is also simply “The Revolution” since that’s the name everyone is used to now. For dyslexics, it becomes “Iiw” or “Aiwah.”

For old school gamers you can alternatively refer to it as the “Mario/Metroid/Zelda/F-Zero” Box, just pick your favorite. For the marketing oriented who now realize that Microsoft has wasted the 360 part of the Xbox 360′s name, since that was their answer to the Nintendo Revolution and it’s not even named that anymore, you can call it the Nintendo Z-Pentabox 720. On a related note, does this now mean that the Xbox 360, in order to stay current, must change it’s name to Xbox Everyone, since Everyone is more “powerful” than “we”?

For the old school, there’s always the good old fashioned, “Famicom,” which, surprisingly, the more I think about it, the more I see this being a FAR more relevant name now than it was when the Famicom first debuted. And last, but not least, by far the EASIEST of all the new names to give it, “The Other Console,” since everyone will KNOW you’re not talking about the PS3 or Xbox Everyone.