Wii May Underestimate Nintendo

To sort of follow-up to yesterday's post, there have been some rumors going around.

Rumors that make a lot of sense.

What’s the rumor? I’ll tell you: That whole “Nintendo Wii” thing?

It’s a hoax. It’s a constructed marketing ploy. It does nothing but provide free press at everyone’s outrage—fanboy or no—by bestowing the absolute worst name possible for a console.

The name “Wii” has not been registered under any copyright. This alone is a huge tip-off, otherwise copyright-squatters (do these people actually exist?) can sit on the name and hold it for ransom…or something.

The secret behind these shenanigans is the fact that E3 is coming next week, and all eyes will be on the gaming superpowers converging on the show. They’ll have demos and announcements and programs and sneak peeks…

…and you can bet your ass that one of those you-heard-it-here-first announcements will be the actual name of Nintendo’s new console. Simply put, Wii is so bad that if it isn’t a hoax, then something is terribly, terribly wrong in the land of the rising sun.

You also have no idea how badly I wanted to say ‘land of the rising fun’ back there. Seriously.

Anyway, I must say that the hoax theory is sound and makes all sorts of sense. Just reading this post, and my writing it, contribute to google hits, ‘conversation markets’ and all of that other sort of marketing magic that Nintendo has seized by the genitals.

Wii can only hope this was a short-term fallacy that precedes a long-term console gaming legacy.

Land of the Rising Fun. I kill me.

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