Slade6alpha said:
Yes, yes it does. Bad name creates bad consumer awareness and can influence sales negatively. |
Nintendo DS -- doesn't get any blander than that. Sounds like a code name for a product that they just stuck with because they couldn't come up with anything better.
Play Station -- sounds like a Fisher Price toy.
XBox One -- to a layman who doesn't know anything, how's he/she supposed to know an XBox One is better than an XBox 360. If I don't know anything about cars and one car is a Z1 and the other is a Z300, odds are I'm going to think the Z300 is better. Not to mention the first XBox was already widely called the XBox 1. This name is worse than the Wii U.
The industry is full of sh*tty names. Even the Wii was kind of a stupid name.
Sega had really cool sounding names. The Master System. The Genesis/MegaDrive. The Saturn. The Dreamcast. Didn't correlate to market success.
