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ABC: Nintendo releasing "2 Dees". Plays same games as "3 Dees". Cuts price of "Wii"
- Thread starter ElectricBlanketFire
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davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
should have called it the WiiDS
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InsaneZero
Member
It's cheap and plays Pokemon.
If Nintendo can drive that point home I think the rest will fall into place.
If Nintendo can drive that point home I think the rest will fall into place.
"Now, Billy, money's a little tight this year so we can't afford those extra dees. I'm sorry, but you'll have to make do with the two dees. They play the same games as the three dees but in less dees. But look on the bright side, it has one more screen on it than your Wii gamepad we got you last year!"
The thing will still sell, but I was arguing in the other topic that going backwards in numbering in any product is never a good idea, especially since the default that the public goes to is "higher number = stronger & better, lower number = weaker."
But that said, everything was on the reporting (or lack there of) in this case.
Fixed
UnluckyKate
Member
Yep, mainstream still doesn't understand Wii U is a new product and not just a controller... Nice communication Big N...
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Sounds phonetically closer to Wheaties, when you put it like that. Next gen Wii part of a balanced breakfast, confirmed?!
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
To be fair, I was mistaken. Yahoo is hosting it but it's an ABC News story.
Maybe a mod can also change the title to: ABC: Nintendo releasing "2 Dees". Plays same games as "3 Dees". Cuts price of "Wii."
Parallax Scroll
Banned
Who the heck would want to play a lower resolution version of pokemon?
no, she's just a dumb model they casted who can speaks in front of a camera.
that's how TV works.
A Serious Man
Member
Wii Who?
"2 Dees" is just funny. More confusion over the Wii and Wii U is an actual problem. Nintendo is has done an absolutely abysmal job communicating what the Wii U is to the general public.
"2 Dees" is just funny. More confusion over the Wii and Wii U is an actual problem. Nintendo is has done an absolutely abysmal job communicating what the Wii U is to the general public.
Kazuma Kiryu
Member
So the DS was the nintendo dees? We've been wrong all this time 
sixteen-bit
Member
Nope, no product confusion
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
Can't wait to get my hand on the 2 Dees. My 3 Dees is too boring, and much too primitive.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
I'm surprised they didn't sneak in a poorly-pronounced line about the new Pokymans
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
*dead*
razoftblend
Member
Nope, I can't really blame Nintendo for this one. The 2DS name might confuse consumers, but calling these systems 3Dees and 2Dees is beyond confusing and flat out ignorant. Basicaly, they're reporting passing along inacurate information. They're calling the Wii U a Wii. I can understand consumers making that mistake, but the media? WTF?
Btw, at first I thought it was some kind of joke article, but I stil can't believe something like this was allowed to go live on the Internet. Next thing they'll tell us, Nintendo works for MS.
Btw, at first I thought it was some kind of joke article, but I stil can't believe something like this was allowed to go live on the Internet. Next thing they'll tell us, Nintendo works for MS.
The news doesn't do research anymore. C'mon.
Nintendo had a press release, they could have read directly off of it if they can't be arsed to do anything at all, I don't see the problem. Although if you're going to run a news outlet even if they delivered information as a cryptic puzzle it's your goddam job figure it out and report it accurately.
Reading the text version of the ABC story, I'm thinking the person saying it is just a dipshit. The ABC text version is fine.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/nintendo-wii-price-dropped-50-29999/story?id=20098977
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
You mean Mees?
Pop-O-Matic
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Bomber Bob
Banned
Rolling in the D's
Fixed for ya.
iceDragon7
Banned
Nintendo is pulling a sega lately with all the hardware confusion.
To this day I don't understand what that stood for and I play the damn game regularly.
Katana_Strikes
Member
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Regardless of Nintendo's own brand confusion, it's equally true that when it comes to reporting on technology western television will forever be trapped in 1993.
It could be the 22nd century and they'd still be exactly like 1993. It's a cosmic law.
It could be the 22nd century and they'd still be exactly like 1993. It's a cosmic law.
Interceptor
Banned
Thx apple for educating the masses about resolution. Now going from 3D to 2D equals "lower resolution"....
DidntKnowJack
Member
Dees ees terrribull!
No, but really I fault the news people for not getting it right, and not caring enough to get it right but at the same time you have to think Nintendo failed getting their message out about the Wii U. And now the 2DS, which is a really weird release for them. If Nintendo wanted to make a cheap alternative to the 3DS you have to wonder if there was a better way to go about it.
No, but really I fault the news people for not getting it right, and not caring enough to get it right but at the same time you have to think Nintendo failed getting their message out about the Wii U. And now the 2DS, which is a really weird release for them. If Nintendo wanted to make a cheap alternative to the 3DS you have to wonder if there was a better way to go about it.
sixteen-bit
Member
Non-native displays confirmed?
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
I wonder what this reporter thinks of Sony's new Piss 4.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Fully agreed, but Nintendo should also do their best to avoid these easy things to confuse.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
3Dees?
Dedicated
Donkey Kong
Device
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Dedicated
Donkey Kong
Device
??
I guess technically it is.
from the wiki:
Though "5D's" stands for "5 Dragons", it has been incorrectly quoted as standing for "5 Dimensions" by 4Kids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_5D's
ColtraineGF
Member
It stands for "5 Dragons" - I haven't watched the series, but I assume there's something like that as a plot element.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Oh Christ this is just priceless xD