Nintendo: taking the piss?


I’d love to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting where Nintendo decided that the best name for its next-generation games console, codenamed the Revolution, was “wii” (pronounced “wee”).

I’m with Engadget reader H20:

Why not just call it the Nintendo WTF?


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  1. david

    >>Even playstation sounds like a sex toy to anyone over the age of 15.

    No – that’s just you. ;-D

  2. david

    In the North-East that’d be the Wayaye.

  3. tm

    most consoles have naff names. Dreamcast? Saturn? NES? PSP? xbox? Even playstation sounds like a sex toy to anyone over the age of 15. I don’t see what’s so bad about it, compared to any of the others…