From Revolution to Wii was about about 6~7 months before launch. We're less than 3 months away and a name change probably wouldn't be helpful at this time or at least, give it enough time for people to change their association with it - unless there was a giant marketing campaign, which would kinda screw up their financial plan by going cheaper on hardware I presume.Betamax001 wrote:The Wii U might not suffer this same fate because the Wii has fallen out of popularity in the last 2 or 3 years, but this might present a new problem being "You haven't played your Wii in years, Why should I spend good money on a new one you won't play?" Nintendo needs to chuck the name of the Wii U while it still can. It's not too late. It won't come out until November (probably) and this so called "Wii U Preview Event" is a good time for Nintendo to actually drop the Wii U name and call it something better, something new and fresh that will get the buyers to understand that it is something new, and not a revamp of the old hardware, or new model. If a few months from now, and the Wii U isn't selling as much as they thought, and I hear moms at Best Buy at GameStop saying crap like "What is the difference?" and not understanding it, I'll be saying "I told you so" to Reggie (Well not actually, I would probably be like...whoa...you're Reggie...uhhh hi...)
From NES to SNES and the same from DS to 3DS... I heard it a lot... so there is definitely the issue... I just don't really know how it'll be this time around.
This next gen is really going to be so weird in terms of companies playing it safe and what kind of creativity we'll get and whatever the NextXbox and PS4 will bring as well. I really can't even begin to imagine what's coming. And I guess that's good because if I could, it'd be pretty boring.
