| Jumpin said: I highly doubt it would have made any difference in most places. I have heard that in the US Nintendo fans are borderline retarded, and that people are incapable of telling the difference between DS and 3DS, as well as Wii and Wii U. |
You're confusing fans with normal customers/users. When you just own something for normal usage and it gets a successor that just looks a little different but doesn't tell you what's different you wouldn't want it as well and might just know the other name because you care for tech. Tech is just successful these days because it's easy to use unlike 10-30 years ago when you had to know what you're doing with cables, frequencies, networking, etc. People don't understand it, it's just easy to use nowadays, so why should they bother with awkward names and stuff when they are used to tech that explains itself and works without anything but some power?
I own a MacBook - am I an Apple fan? No, I just like it a little better than Windows or Linux because it combines the complex tech side (Unix, Shell, ...) with a quick and easy UI and it's proven to be more reliable for me (freezed once in 4 years, no fragmentation, no formating needed, ...). Would I buy anything Apple now or read up everything about possible successors? No, I'm happy with what I have and don't want to "waste" time with new stuff when the old works like a charm.
