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[ChrisD]

What does GCN stand for?

I know it's dumb when you actually think on it, but when written "NGC" just looks bad. GCN has a smooth flow. It looks like you could place the letters just as they are to be a logo. Actually, I think Global Cycling Network actually does just use the letters at times, and it looks clean. NGC is super choppy.

Spoiler

Nintendo GameCube is the only proper way if writing it out in full

 

[KojiKnight]

I know it's dumb when you actually think on it, but when written "NGC" just looks bad. GCN has a smooth flow. It looks like you could place the letters just as they are to be a logo. Actually, I think Global Cycling Network actually does just use the letters at times, and it looks clean. NGC is super choppy.

Spoiler

Nintendo GameCube is the only proper way if writing it out in full

It was to make sure not to confuse the GameCube and the released slightly earlier Neo Geo Pocket Color (usually shortened to NGPC for the same reason)

 

[starry sonata]

BWAHAHA! Take that you plebs. That's how you pronounce it."Sness" master race baby!

 

[Lupin the Third]

I know it's dumb when you actually think on it, but when written "NGC" just looks bad. GCN has a smooth flow. It looks like you could place the letters just as they are to be a logo. Actually, I think Global Cycling Network actually does just use the letters at times, and it looks clean. NGC is super choppy.

Spoiler

Nintendo GameCube is the only proper way if writing it out in full

The original style guide actually said it is supposed to be NINTENDO GAMECUBE, in all caps, and could only be simplified to CamelCase "GameCube" on occasion, and should be abbreviated GCN. Weird as heck, I vaguely remember Cassamasina-era IGN writing about it.

Edit: Also I'm pretty sure the NeoGeo Pocket Color conflict is fan-invented. No one was even talking about that thing at the time. It had launched and died a year before the Cube even launched in the US.

 

[Synth]

I know it's dumb when you actually think on it, but when written "NGC" just looks bad. GCN has a smooth flow. It looks like you could place the letters just as they are to be a logo. Actually, I think Global Cycling Network actually does just use the letters at times, and it looks clean. NGC is super choppy.

Spoiler

Nintendo GameCube is the only proper way if writing it out in full

Yea, I got no problems with GCN just as a name that's more convenient to say, I just wasn't sure if it was similar to the original PlayStation being abbreviated to PSX in the past, as opposed to PS1.

Definitely needs to be extended to Nintendo Gamecube however.

 

[aadiboy]

Who the fuck doesn't just say Super Nintendo?

 

[charlequin]

How do you say PUBG?

This thread is for talking about controversial pronunciations, everyone knows this one is Pub Guh.

Did people back then call the PS1 "PlayStation" but then call the PlayStation 2 "PS2"?

No, we said PSX.

 

[BocoDragon]

No, we said PSX.

We wrote that in the 90s.... but I never said it out loud.

 

[starry sonata]

This thread is for talking about controversial pronunciations, everyone knows this one is Pub Guh.

Word.

 

[Stumpokapow]

That depends, is it Modbot or EM OH DEE BEE OH TEE

The official brand guidelines for ModBot indicate that ModBot should be pronounced "Mod Bott" (never "Mob Dat") and rendered with both distinctive Capital Letters (ModBot rather than Modbot or modbot)

 

[Lupin the Third]

Here's the in-depth article about the naming convention for GameCube. Has nothing to do with the NeoGeo Pocket Color.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2000/12/13/the-name-game

 

[ggx2ac]

This thread is for talking about controversial pronunciations, everyone knows this one is Pub Guh.

I thought I was the only one!

 

[Synth]

I thought I was the only one!

In all seriousness.

You probably are.

 

[Professor Beef]

The official brand guidelines for ModBot indicate that ModBot should be pronounced "Mod Bott" (never "Mob Dat") and rendered with both distinctive Capital Letters (ModBot rather than Modbot or modbot)

You can't make me type "ModBot," because I'll always call him mudbutt

 

[Guevara]

Sega Gene-sis

 

[The Hermit]

In Brasil the correct and only way is Super ness.

Sness is weird

 

[Bronetta]

That depends, is it Modbot or EM OH DEE BEE OH TEE

Its pronounced ModButt

 

[Synth]

Here's the in-depth article about the naming convention for GameCube. Has nothing to do with the NeoGeo Pocket Color.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2000/12/13/the-name-game

IGNcube: So how is Gamecube spelled? Is it intercapped, one word -- what?
Jim: All caps and one word.

This is why the official word is garbage. Nobody does that shit.

 

[CharminUltra]

It's written SNES but it's pronounced shanebettenhausen

 

[ggx2ac]

In all seriousness.

You probably are.

It's either that or Pube for PUBG, where the G is silent like Gnostic.

 

[Godcannon]

We wrote that in the 90s.... but I never said it out loud.

Agreed. It only became PS1 after PS2 came out, and PSone is the slim. Before it was just.....Playstation. Take it from the two with the PS1 avatars! PSX means Playstation Experience.

 

[Synth]

It's either that or Pube for PUBG, where the G is silent like Gnostic.

I could get behind the latter... mostly because it takes less effort.

 

[10k]

Reggie and Trinen have pronounced it in directs as Super NES (Super En Ee Es). I accept that or pronouncing each letter separately. SNESS as a word is butchery of the highest order.

 

[sfried]

It's EHHHHHS NESSS!

 

[torre_avenue]

I can't believe you are all such nerds to spend 6 or 12 pages debating pronunciation of the SNES.

Truly a new low for pedantry.

 

[Eliseo]

It's either that or Pube for PUBG, where the G is silent like Gnostic.

Just call it PUG and imagine cute dogs.

 

[Cuburt]

How many Snessers are millennials that never grew up with the console or were never old enough to talk to anyone else about it until later in your life? I have to think there is a generational aspect at play.

Also, Europeans have no excuse, they are just wrong no matter how SNEZZ became a thing.

 

[Brock Reiher]

I started saying Sness because of Ness but then I realized it sounded stupid and switched to SNES.

 

[Aomber]

I just say S-N-E-S and call it a day.

 

[atr0cious]

Imagine having such a fundamental misunderstanding of what an acronym is that you think it's a word. I blame adidas.

 

[CookTrain]

Imagine having such a fundamental misunderstanding of what acronym is that you think it's a word. I blame adidas.

Your name has a number in it. Psh.

 

[atr0cious]

Your name has a number in it. Psh.

And yet it's usage is more phonetically sound than drooling out sness.

 

[fester]

Correct: Super Nintendo
Acceptable: S.N.E.S, Super N.E.S.
Quantifiably Incorrect: Snehsssssss
Obtusely Pigheadedly Wrong: Snezz what the hell there is no Z you Brits. You have no excuse here.

This post captures it perfectly.

 

[CookTrain]

And yet it's usage is more phonetically sound than drooling out sness.

NASA don't seem to have a problem with the notion. Rocket scientists say Snez!... probably

 

[Synth]

Imagine having such a fundamental misunderstanding of what an acronym is that you think it's a word. I blame adidas.

"pronounced as a word"

I think most people here are doing fine.

 

[Tansut]

All you "Snesss" plebs...

 

[Zen_Arcade]

Twitter is full of bullshit. This is just further proof of it.

 

[BruceCLea]

S-N-E-S always seemed right to a total outsider

 

[webkatt]

I call all consoles Nintendos

 

[Ryouji Gunblade]

It's always been the Super N.E.S. to me.

 

[Bronetta]

All you "Snesss" plebs...

I like that gif so I guess I'm on your side.

 

[Starphanluke]

As someone born after the SNES's time (just barely, but still), I've always called it the Super Nintendo. Everything else just feels icky.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Alright, nah.

No.

GCN has always been the official short-form for the GameCube in North America. It's used in all documentation.

 

[MoonFrog]

Why is the SNES so beautiful? It really is.

(I think the SFC is beautiful too).

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

Either spell out the acronym or call it "Super Nintendo". Everything else is disgusting.

 

[Synth]

GCN has always been the official short-form for the GameCube in North America. It's used in all documentation.

Nothing wrong with GCN. It just needs to remain shorthand.

Either spell out the acronym or call it "Super Nintendo". Everything else is disgusting.

The whole point of an acronym is that you don't spell it out individually.

 

[Megatron]

Nothing wrong with GCN. It just needs to remain shorthand.



The whole point of an acronym is that you don't spell it out individually.

Really? Pronounce PS4 please.

 

[Synth]

Really? Pronounce PS4 please.

Typically happens when the abbreviation isn't phonetically pronounceable.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Let's offer you Yanks an ultimatum. We pronounce it as ess enn ee ess, and you start adding the letter "U" to words. Especially favoUrite. It's not supposed spell as if it's pronunced FAYV-ORRR-AIGHT!

 

[hydragonwarrior]

NEVER.