| Staude said:
First of all "nintendo" isn't known by the "casuals" in general they know the wii and they might know the ds. Some do some do not. They know the wii because they've seen it on tv, have it or know someone who does. They don't really know nintendo. The playstation brand as a gaming platform is the most welknown by all groups beside the PC. The reason this is different is because most people don't connect the ds or the wii or the gamecube. Simply because their names are so different and your regular joe won't do the research to find out that they are all made from the same company. On the other hand when you say playstation it can be any console from sony. I don't mention microsoft because i really don't know anyone who has a xbox.
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What? Did I really just read that? If you think the Playstation brand is better known than the overall name Nintendo, you have got to be smoking the good stuff. In fact, straight through the PS1's lifespan, nongamers called it and every other console "the Nintendo". This goes back from 86 and finally started seperating into Playstation, Nintendo and Xbox around 2002 or so. So all those casuals, who used to be nongamers, remember "the Nintendo" that their kids played back in the 80s and 90s. There was no NES, SNES, N64, etc for these people, only "the Nintendo". Now with the popularity of the Wii and DS, people have come full circle to playing "The Nintendo" again. Though most of the casuals like calling it "The Wii" better, less syllables I guess.
