twesterm said:
There's nothing wrong with the first paragraph. He's not being disrespectful there, he's just saying XBOX 360 is difficult to say for some people, Wii isn't. Calling that racist is like calling me racist for saying Revolution is a bad name because it's hard for Japanese people to say it. |
Japanese would just convert it into the syllables available in their language: rebaruushon. Same as terebishon, animeeshon, kompyuutaa, hambaagaa, and the rest. It's not that it's hard, it's just morphed into what their language allows. But I'm sure there are many other languages that would have had problems outside of English and Japanese.
@OP, Nintendo wanted to invent a new word that was one syllable and easy to pronounce in every language. Nintendo isn't the first to do this. Kodak is a famous made-up company name that sounded stupid when they invented it. Now it's a household name.
I for one think it's much more interesting than just adding numbers to the name. Nintendo and Sega have always had nice original names without resorting to numbers, except for Nintendo64, but that's back when that number was really important. I'll never understand the 360 name though. It's an XBox2.
