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foxtail on 29 September 2014
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brendude13 said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

While I agree with what ur getting at, I do think their decisions to change their console brand name from GC to the wii was a good thing cause GC did terribly and they should change their name once again for their console next generation too cause the wiiU is doing terribly. But yea, they need to figure out an awesome name and just evolve the brand off of that!

Although, even till this day, my parents think all my consoles are Nintendos including the ones that are not lolll (Like ps3, psp and so on)

I'm pretty sure that has something to do with you and the consoles you buy or play most. Parents aren't very attentive when it comes to technology. >.<

You'd had to have lived or grown up in North America during the 80s/90s to understand the "call all videogames Nintendo" phenomenon.  Nintendo was so widely used as a synonym for videogames back then that "Nintendo" and "videogame" were literally used interchangeably.

At the time people were using terms like "Nintendo War" and it had nothing to do with today's console wars or Nintendo's own Famicom Wars series.  Nintendo War was a nickname given to the first Persian Gulf War in the US because of the new ways in which the war was being fought.  

With the adoption of smart bombs, computerized weapons and other uses of technology people said that it was a new era in modern warfare and because of this the media likened the war to playing a videogame and the term "Nintendo War" was born. - http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/rawlins/moths/crystal/2.html