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Post by The Thread Barbi on Dec 28, 2020 15:27:17 GMT -5
Consoles don't need cool names. Sony has it right with the standard numbering. But does that mean in about 60 years we'll have "Playstation (symbol)" because Playstation 30 will show how "old" it is?
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Post by CMWaters on Dec 28, 2020 15:37:48 GMT -5
Consoles don't need cool names. Sony has it right with the standard numbering. But does that mean in about 60 years we'll have "Playstation (symbol)" because Playstation 30 will show how "old" it is? No because Vince McMahon doesn't run Sony.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 28, 2020 15:59:32 GMT -5
I don't mind Sony just doing numbers. It's simple and easy to remember. The only weird names I think Nintendo has done is the Wii and Wii U. Everything else they have has been in the name of what the system is about. Everyone thought the Wii U was an add on to the Wii. It was a big mistake. The E3 presentation didn't even say it was a console and just talked about the controller.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Dec 28, 2020 16:09:21 GMT -5
Wasn’t the latest XBox supposed to be called Skarlet?
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Post by Hypnosis on Dec 28, 2020 16:14:35 GMT -5
Wasn’t the latest XBox supposed to be called Skarlet? Microsoft's next console should be called "Xbox Jade".
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Post by Cyno on Dec 28, 2020 16:42:04 GMT -5
Everyone thought the Wii U was an add on to the Wii. It was a big mistake. The E3 presentation didn't even say it was a console and just talked about the controller. That presentation was such a massive failure in advertising the product. Between that and the name, so many people thought the Wii U was an addon to the Wii, not a new console.
It was the biggest misstep that Nintendo made since the Virtual Boy. I think it's pretty telling that not only did it have such a short shelf life, but that practically every Wii U game of note has gotten a Switch port.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Dec 28, 2020 17:48:10 GMT -5
Wasn’t the latest XBox supposed to be called Skarlet? The development of the Series X/S was called Project Scarlett and the consoles were codenamed Anaconda and Lockhart
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2020 23:54:57 GMT -5
'70s and '80s consoles had the best names.
Odyssey Vectrex Master System Intellivision Mega Drive
and so forth.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Dec 29, 2020 0:38:19 GMT -5
Man, the cool side of the pillow has nothing on the Amiga 64.
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Post by agent817 on Dec 29, 2020 1:04:34 GMT -5
Consoles don't need cool names. Sony has it right with the standard numbering. But does that mean in about 60 years we'll have "Playstation (symbol)" because Playstation 30 will show how "old" it is?
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Post by HMARK Center on Dec 29, 2020 9:29:51 GMT -5
The E3 presentation didn't even say it was a console and just talked about the controller. That presentation was such a massive failure in advertising the product. Between that and the name, so many people thought the Wii U was an addon to the Wii, not a new console.
It was the biggest misstep that Nintendo made since the Virtual Boy. I think it's pretty telling that not only did it have such a short shelf life, but that practically every Wii U game of note has gotten a Switch port.
And it was a real bummer, because the Wii U had some damn good games, an improved Virtual Console, and the whole Miiverse thing was pretty fun...but nobody knew what it actually was until it was too late. I genuinely enjoyed mine for the couple of years that there were steady new releases for it, but it goes to show had badly some marketing missteps can damage even a good product.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Dec 29, 2020 9:51:19 GMT -5
That presentation was such a massive failure in advertising the product. Between that and the name, so many people thought the Wii U was an addon to the Wii, not a new console.
It was the biggest misstep that Nintendo made since the Virtual Boy. I think it's pretty telling that not only did it have such a short shelf life, but that practically every Wii U game of note has gotten a Switch port.
And it was a real bummer, because the Wii U had some damn good games, an improved Virtual Console, and the whole Miiverse thing was pretty fun...but nobody knew what it actually was until it was too late. I genuinely enjoyed mine for the couple of years that there were steady new releases for it, but it goes to show had badly some marketing missteps can damage even a good product. Yeah, the Wii U itself was a great console. I bought mine about a year after launch and played the hell out of it for a couple years.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2020 13:00:15 GMT -5
If you traveled back in time and told your childhood self that you would be playing video games on a voice activated console called the PS5, younger you would think it sounded so awesome that his head would explode.
Then of course you would cease to exist because of the paradox of your younger self dying, but let's not derail the thread here.
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Post by Cyno on Dec 29, 2020 13:22:41 GMT -5
That presentation was such a massive failure in advertising the product. Between that and the name, so many people thought the Wii U was an addon to the Wii, not a new console.
It was the biggest misstep that Nintendo made since the Virtual Boy. I think it's pretty telling that not only did it have such a short shelf life, but that practically every Wii U game of note has gotten a Switch port.
And it was a real bummer, because the Wii U had some damn good games, an improved Virtual Console, and the whole Miiverse thing was pretty fun...but nobody knew what it actually was until it was too late. I genuinely enjoyed mine for the couple of years that there were steady new releases for it, but it goes to show had badly some marketing missteps can damage even a good product. At least most of what made the Wii U an interesting concept got carried over to the Switch (or improved upon, with turning the Tablet controller into the console itself) without the baggage of poor marketing or hardware that was still lagging behind the PS3 and 360 in terms of power, much less the PS4 and Xbox One coming out a year later. The motion control fad and the Wii brand associated with it had also lost a lot of its luster by then, especially as the Wii library was flooded with tons of badly-made shovelware. Quality games were almost always made just by Nintendo and there's only so much they could do on their own.
Yeah, the Switch can't do 4K, but 4K is still niche enough where Nintendo can ignore it and not lose out on anything. And Switch games are "good enough" looking compared to PS4 and Xbox One games. It's why the console has some of the best third party support a Nintendo console has enjoyed in a long while.
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Post by BorneAgain on Dec 29, 2020 14:18:05 GMT -5
Wii U was a case of Nintendo dearly paying for assuming the blue ocean strategy with the Wii would endure. Whereas it could afford to not overtly appeal to the hardcore gaming crowd because of the huge appeal of the motion controls and ensuing install base, that audience either didn't stick around or was confused by the Wii U branding. Thus with no casual audience to buy the console at launch and a base that was turned off by the Wii library, you end up with no momentum. Throw in a lot of franchises either in hibernation or producing games that few were asking for and you essentially get Nintendo's nadir point in the past 25 years.
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Post by Casey Jones (AKA MrThrowback) on Dec 29, 2020 23:12:19 GMT -5
When the super Nintendo came out we made jokes that the next one would be called "Nintendo Ultra". Years later I think I heard that was the planned name for the 64. I wish they stuck with that name
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Dec 29, 2020 23:23:53 GMT -5
Not sure anyone has ever purchased a console based upon the name.
With that said, calling a console the Wii was a terrible decision.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Dec 30, 2020 0:00:04 GMT -5
Wii U was a case of Nintendo dearly paying for assuming the blue ocean strategy with the Wii would endure. Whereas it could afford to not overtly appeal to the hardcore gaming crowd because of the huge appeal of the motion controls and ensuing install base, that audience either didn't stick around or was confused by the Wii U branding. Thus with no casual audience to buy the console at launch and a base that was turned off by the Wii library, you end up with no momentum. Throw in a lot of franchises either in hibernation or producing games that few were asking for and you essentially get Nintendo's nadir point in the past 25 years. Plus, Wii U never really had a killer app. There are a lot of really, really good games for the Wii U but other then Super Mario Maker (which made it to 3DS anyways) and Splatoon were really new ideas. Mario Kart 8 is amazing, but Mario Kart 7 is damn near as enjoyable. Same with Mario World 3D/Land 3D. NSMB and NSMB U. Breath of the Wild was basically the end of the Wii U, other then that you had Zelda ports. Even hardcore Nintendo fans didn’t have a tonne of reasons to buy one
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Dec 30, 2020 9:52:38 GMT -5
What's with Atari and their feline-named consoles? There's: Jaguar Lynx Panther (this one was cancelled)
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 30, 2020 17:19:50 GMT -5
When the super Nintendo came out we made jokes that the next one would be called "Nintendo Ultra". Years later I think I heard that was the planned name for the 64. I wish they stuck with that name it was going to be the Nintendo Ultra 64. there were bunch of rumors why the change to N64, Nintendo's official statement is they wanted a united name across continents (as it would be the Ultra Famicom in Japan)
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