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Should the Wii U be renamed?

Yes 88 52.38%
 
No 80 47.62%
 
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benji232 on 26 February 2013
cunger said:
Maybe they should do a re-launch.. Remove the controller in exchange for a Classic Controller Pro and reduce price of white model to 249.99 and call it WiiHD!

Yea, and basically point the middle finger to the 3million people who already bought a wiiU, good idea.



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Stefan.De.Machtige on 26 February 2013
Cold-Flipper said:
No, who renames a product after launch?

Not many. But many product get a redirection or refocus of it perception for the general audience.

This would be more of a name shtifting, then purely a name change.



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chris_wing on 26 February 2013
Stefan.De.Machtige said:

I'm not suggesting that a fast switch would be done, but a gradual phasing out of the part by marketing in the first place.

Meaning that commercials and packaging would center around showing the front and center. So people might related to it as the U, even though the official boxname at that time would still be the Wii U.

When perception has shifted to the U as the common name, then Nintendo could quitely change the packaging or naming...
... and no one would really notice. Or care.

But people know what "Wii" is, & people know what "Nintendo" is, they don't know what "U" is.  If they changed the name to Nintendo U, or Wii 2 people would take notice, seeing it as a new thing altogether.  "A "U", what's a "U"?",  & good luck trademarking a letter.

As Pezus said, Nintendo U would be the best name to use moving forward.  It wouldn't confuse people who already are aware of the Wii U, and it would but the Nintendo brand back in the spot light.



Otakumegane on 26 February 2013
benji232 said:
cunger said:
Maybe they should do a re-launch.. Remove the controller in exchange for a Classic Controller Pro and reduce price of white model to 249.99 and call it WiiHD!

Yea, and basically point the middle finger to the 3million people who already bought a wiiU, good idea.


Couldn't they just patch the name up in the start sequence or something?



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zippy on 26 February 2013

Keep the WiiU logo, but advertise it as Wii Ultimate. People will then relate to what the U represents. The Wii brand was too strong last gen to completley drop it.



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Sparks on 26 February 2013
Cold-Flipper said:
No, who renames a product after launch?

haha this



chris_wing on 26 February 2013
zippy said:
Keep the WiiU logo, but advertise it as Wii Ultimate. People will then relate to what the U represents. The Wii brand was too strong last gen to completley drop it.

The Wii brand is a dead well beaten horse at this point, drop it, star fresh, Nintendo U.  And the U doesn't mean "ultimate", it means "you", it would confuse the message to now say it means "ultimate".



Stefan.De.Machtige on 26 February 2013
chris_wing said:
Stefan.De.Machtige said:

I'm not suggesting that a fast switch would be done, but a gradual phasing out of the part by marketing in the first place.

Meaning that commercials and packaging would center around showing the front and center. So people might related to it as the U, even though the official boxname at that time would still be the Wii U.

When perception has shifted to the U as the common name, then Nintendo could quitely change the packaging or naming...
... and no one would really notice. Or care.

But people know what "Wii" is, & people know what "Nintendo" is, they don't know what "U" is.  If they changed the name to Nintendo U, or Wii 2 people would take notice, seeing it as a new thing altogether.  "A "U", what's a "U"?",  & good luck trademarking a letter.

bold: Great point. Didn't thing about that. No way you can properly trademark that U. Dang :(

 

I'm not sure if Wii 2 would do it. The wii sounded new. I understand it has a lot marketing power left, but still it's not helping the Wii U at this moment.

Nintendo U is better. The Nintendo U is so obvious, and the nintendo part be left silent for most people.



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Roma on 26 February 2013

No just release games and that will solve the problem. renaming it will only make Nintendo appear as if they can't make the right decisions when it comes to names



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

Stefan.De.Machtige on 26 February 2013
chris_wing said:
zippy said:
Keep the WiiU logo, but advertise it as Wii Ultimate. People will then relate to what the U represents. The Wii brand was too strong last gen to completley drop it.

The Wii brand is a dead well beaten horse at this point, drop it, star fresh, Nintendo U.  And the U doesn't mean "ultimate", it means "you", it would confuse the message to now say it means "ultimate".

Think about it: a commercial like this:

NIntendo U

*then u en nintendo cross*

U... Nintendo

*Then Nintendo disappears*

U:)

*then the smile blinks or something*

 

I liking Nintendo U already.



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