Nintendo: Why Ask Wii? [Apr 27, 2006, 3:09 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Nintendo names
new video game console Wii. Why Wii? Because It's pronounced "we." Why? Who
knows, though
CNN
Money has a Q&A on the topic. Here's the announcement:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nintendo Co. Ltd (7974.OS) on Thursday said it has named its new video game console "Wii, which it said is pronounced "we" to emphasize that the console is for everyone.
The console up until now has been known by its code-name "Revolution."
"While the code-name Revolution expressed our direction, Wii represents the answer," spokeswoman Perrin Kaplan told Reuters.
Nintendo, best known for its Game Boy portable video players, aims to gain share in the $25 billion global video game market now dominated by Sony Corp. (6758.T)
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) launched its next-generation Xbox 360 console late last year and Sony's new PlayStation 3 is due in November. Wii also is expected to hit store shelves later this year.
While the new consoles from Microsoft and Sony boast more power and high-definition graphics, Nintendo's goal is to roll out a machine that appeals to a broader audience than the young males who make up the traditional console gaming market.
A key feature of the Wii is its one-handed controller that looks like a television remote control and uses motion-detection sensors that allow players to control the game by wielding it like a sword, waving it like a conductor's baton, or swinging it like a baseball bat.
Last quarter actually if you can believe it. Also, the bit about the GameCube X2 specs is highly suspect to say the least. If you are basing that information off an IGN article that came out recently, there were a number of factors such as architecture in that article that the author chose to ignore. He based his comparisons purely off Mhz numbers which as we all know from Intel/AMD, is no longer a relevant way to measure it.
I've read from a seperate source that the archicture is logically the same as the GC, but in saying that there's no way to be sure that the IGN articles was right anyways, nor that the architectural stuff was strictly accurate. It does strike me in any case that 'Gamecube x2' is rather a meaningless measurement; you could possibly make the arguement the SNES was NESx2, but would that really mean you could anticipate what it (SNES) would be like based on the NES?
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