I was definitely one of the people who were completely shocked when they first heard it. Revolution sounded totally awesome, so why change it to something so weird?
Of course that's the problem. The competition had big macho names that really sounded like something that played games, and only geeks would own. The Wii sounds totally cute and innocent, so it's easy to get non-gamers to try it.
Btw, I'm annoyed by how people keep saying Nintendo changed the name to Wii because the Japanese have a hard time saying the word revolution. Nobody in this thread yet, but it eventually pops up everywhere.
First of all it's not that hard for them. Due to the syllabic structure of their language it would end up as reborushon, or revorushon.
Secondly, you guys know what they called the most popular console of last gen? The pureishuteeson tsu. The most popular gaming franchises are poketto monsutaa, fainaru fantajii and doragon kuesuto. Revolution is starting to sound pretty easy, isn't it? =P
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