Thieves steal $2 million worth of wii consoles but the punch line is

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Mandalore76 said:

M.U.G.E.N said:

 

 

Ninty really fucked up with the naming of the system

 

 

 

No matter how many times I hear this said, I still don't get it.  The Super Nintendo (SNES) followed the NES without complaint or confusion.  The Game Boy Advance followed the Gameboy and sold 80+ million units.  The XBox 360, followed the XBox and doubled it's sales.  I don't get the insistence that Nintendo did something unprecedented by not issuing a radically different name to their next-gen systems.   The 3DS is over 24 million units sold without even being on the market for two years, despite the insistence by some that no one knows it's different than a DS.  And Wii U is trending above 360/XBox 360 launch window sales.   Are we really going to say that the average consumer (exceptions not withstanding) is so dumb that they need to be spoon-fed console names in numerical order?  PlayStation 3 is not out-selling PlayStation 2, so this method does not guarrantee that you will outsell your predecessor anyway.

No one is saying it's unprecedented....people are saying it's stupid. Are you honestly going to tell me now there isn't a lot of confusion among average consumers about the system? Lol come on man open your eyes and look around. I read two stories just yesterday about how the guy at the check out mistook it for an accessory for the wii! 

Ninty really messed up their unveiling at E3. With a different name it could have been avoided too. They have followed names like wii sports, wii play, wii music, wii fit....and now wii u. Not hard to see why people might get confused. All the promotional material has been paying most of it's attention of the game pad. This adds more to the confusion.

They basically set themselves up