Nintendo See the Light?

June 20th, 2006

According to Kotaku, Nintendo have decided to change the name of the Wii. The article does not sound reliable to me, and there is no official source, so I won’t believe it just yet. I think it might be too late for Nintendo to go back on it now anyway, after all the hype and publicity given to the Wii brand already.

We have received over 200,000 e-mails with complaints about the Wii, and the console name has been commonly associated with urine. We have been the target of many jokes, and we strongly believe that it’s a bad thing for the company’s reputation.

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