Chris Roper, IGN PlayStation: Nintendo is ******* retarded. That is all.
Juan Castro, IGN PSP: At this point, I’m not sure it matters if Nintendo’s new system has a cool name or not. They want to attract infants and the senile, not the PS3 crowd. At any rate, “Wii” is no more cracked-out than the “Revolution” concept itself.
Really, a wicked-cool name wouldn’t have made any sense. And in a way, “Wii” actually works. It’s a total, funkified gamble. Just like everything Nintendo is doing nowadays.
Erik Harte, IGN Video: Seriously, any last shred of cool that Nintendo had was just thrown out the window. I mean, the whole style, look, and feel of the Revolution, with it’s Mac-like color schemes, simplicity, and glowing blue light was very cool. But man, watch the Wii commercial. Not cool at all. Dammit Nintendo. You’re shooting yourself in the foot.
Daemon Hatfield, IGN News: …and just when i was starting to believe in Nintendo again…
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Mark Nix, IGN Data: Nintendo needs to open up its E3 2006 press conference the same way PeeWee Herman opened up the MTV awards that one year … Heard any good jokes lately?
As ridiculous as it is hitting us now, however, I can feel the name growing on me in some small way already. Wii is at once a terrible name for a videogame console and a catchy name for a gaming sensation. How any of us will go into a store and ask for a game for the “Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!”, I have no idea, but the casual gamers turned off by this generation’s complex and expensive Xbox and PlayStation game systems will hopefully find the charm in a console that literally screams fun. Meanwhile, the dedicated fan boys have already coined a new pronounciation (the term “Wiise” has been coined), and some are still die-hard to stick Revolution stickers over the Wii logo when it hits stores. Wii is simple like iPod. Wii is cute like Aibo. Wii is … well, it’s no name for a game system, but it’s all Nintendo, and to many, Nintendo is gaming.
Of course, no matter how much it catches on, the jokes will never die.