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What name should the Nintendo Revolution have?

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Ruzbeh

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Recently I've been thinking what the Revolution should be called, since Revolution is still just the official code-name, and we already know that the other two next-gen consoles are called Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. First of all, it should definately not be called Revolution. It's a too big word. A Revolution implies something great. I consider Entertainment something little, no matter how awesome it is. I also read in the Gamecube am failure already dead thread that some people don't know that it's a Nintendo console. That could be a problem. The Nintendo Gamecube is the first Nintendo system that you could refer to without saying 'Nintendo'. Let's look at how all Nintendo consoles were named and how everybody called them:

1) Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom for Japan. People called this thing the NES or just Nintendo. I think just plain 'Nintendo' was a far more popular abbreviation.

2) Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super Famicom for Japan. People called this thing the SNES or just Super Nintendo. I think just plain 'Super Nintendo' was a far more popular abbreviation (am I starting to sound repetitive here?).

3) Nintendo 64. People called this thing the Nintendo 64 as far as I am aware of. So this was the third system that you really needed you to say 'Nintendo'.

4) Nintendo Gamecube. People call this the Gamecube. So you don't need to say Nintendo for the first time. :/

5) I think it should be called something that requires you to say Nintendo. Like, Nintendo 5. Nintendo Five. Well, that sounds kinda corny, but it would make a nice logo. :)

Certain GAFers also came up with a few good ideas:
-Nintendo V (V=5)
-Nintendo Revolution Entertainment System 512 aka "RES" or "Nintendo RES"
-Nintendo Revo
-New Sexy

Nintendo 5 or Nintendo V are my favorites so far. What do you think?
 
Call it "Nintendo" why?

- people have forgotten about "Nintendo 64"
- people don't know the "Gamecube"

so "Nintendo" will do fine, people will figure out on their own if it's new or not.
 
Timen said:
Call it "Nintendo" why?

- people have forgotten about "Nintendo 64"
- people don't know the "Gamecube"

so "Nintendo" will do fine, people will figure out on their own if it's new or not.
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But people haven't forgotten the old Nintendo (NES) or Super Nintendo.

Like I said, some people don't even know that the Gamecube is a Nintendo console. After all, the Revolution should attract non-gamers (which includes people who like NES but not N64 and Gamecube, etc).
 
jarrod said:
I like Revolution fine. The two discs in the logo works well too.
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I don't mind the name Revolution, providing it has a feature or 2 that lives up to the name, but I think that E3 logo looks quite cheap.

The fact it plays games on 2 different sized discs isn't a feature worth highlighting, unless the next Gameboy uses the smaller discs as well or something. Which isn't very likely.
 
jarrod said:
I like Revolution fine. The two discs in the logo works well too.
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It's because you're used to it. Revolution is a terrible final name when I think about. Nintendo Gamecube sounds a lot better, too.
 
Revolution will sound great once we will be able to associate it with what makes Nintendo's next console a revolution.
 
The N5 would work, but I think the Revolution is a fine name. Assuming they change the logo.. The DS was originally going to have a new name as well, but it was called Nitro originally.
 
LowTecky said:
The N5 would work, but I think the Revolution is a fine name. Assuming they change the logo.. The DS was originally going to have a new name as well, but it was called Nitro originally.
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DS and Nitro were both code-names.
n-off said:
Nintendo ON
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*dies*
NintendosBooger said:
Final Nintendo (hey, works for Final Fantasy, eh, eh?)
Nintendo Advanced
Nintendo Entertainment Solution (NES)
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Nintendo Advanced is actually pretty good... Or how about Nintendo Next? Nintendo Entertainment Solution is a terrible name. Because it's not an 'Entertainment Solution'. :|
 
NintendosBooger said:
Final Nintendo (hey, works for Final Fantasy, eh, eh?)
Nintendo Advanced
Nintendo Entertainment Solution (NES)
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You could combine a couple of your ideas there - Nintendo Final Solution!

Erm, maybe not.
 
They should call it the Ultra Nintendo Entertainment System because that's essentially what it is...an NES, SNES, N64, GC, and a new system combined.

Oh, and they should have an NES styled system available at launch to play up on the nostalgia as well. Someone did a photoshop of one and it looked awesome. If I had the pics I'd post them.
 
Nintendo Pedophile System is a good name. Most people will probably call it the "Nintendo Pedophile", which satisfies your request. People won't call it "NPS", since that's a very boring acronym, and they won't call it "Pedophile", because no one blurts out the word "Pedophile" during a conversion.
 
Nintendo Online
Nintendo Playback (pretty clever sub-title considering the feature where you can play old games)
Nintendo AO (Alpha and Omega, old games and new games)
 
Ruzbeh said:
Recently I've been thinking what the Revolution should be called, since Revolution is still just the official code-name, and we already know that the other two next-gen consoles are called Playstation 3 and Xbox 360...
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Revolution is what it will be called. Somone bumped an old thread for that one that said Revolution is still just the code-name. It is now the official name.

What happened is that Nintendo released their annual report about a week after they announced Revolution as the final name, but they prepared the report months earlier, so it only referred to the Revolution as a code-name, when in fact they had already decided to make that the final name by the time the report was released.

Granted Sony, MS, and Nintendo are all still free to change the names if they wanted to, so in that sense all 3 names are not "final", but Nintendo has definitely gone on record saying they plan to use Revolution for the system's final name.
 
FitzOfRage said:
Revolution is what it will be called. Somone bumped an old thread for that one that said Revolution is still just the code-name. It is now the official name.
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No dude. It's not the final name. It's just a code-name. That thread was just about a single article posted at nintendo.com that said it was (tentative). That doesn't mean it's going to be the final name.
 
I vote for N5XY; even though as an acronym it's a bit awkward, I can definitely imagine some good ad concepts.
 
I'm hoping for the Nintendo Revolution, meself.

If not, N5 could do, too. Hoping for Revolution though.
 
Worm_Buffet said:
Nintendo Pedophile System is a good name. Most people will probably call it the "Nintendo Pedophile", which satisfies your request. People won't call it "NPS", since that's a very boring acronym, and they won't call it "Pedophile", because no one blurts out the word "Pedophile" during a conversion.
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It's hard to argue with this.

I was thinking they should call it:

TTIGTBARWANSYTTH* SuperHawtBox 5!


*(This Time It's Going To Be Awesome. Really, We Are Not Shitting You This Time. Honest.)
 
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