Thursday, April 27, 2006

Nintendo Officially Loses Their Mind

I think Nintendo really needs to lay off of the LSD at their corporate headquarters. Their new console is going to be named the Wii. Yup, it will be called the Why? or perhaps the Wee because it is going to be shaped like a urinal. Or maybe it is somehow related to the W Hotel. Maybe Nintendo got a naming rights fee from them. But to not get it confused with the hotel they added the ii part to tell people that they got $2 million from it. Some of this stuff people wrote is priceless:

“I’ll be damned if I am going into an electronics store and asking when they get “Wii” in stock...it’s totally insane,” said Nomad Gamer in a blog post.

Yeah the store clerk might just drink a cup of coffee then go into the bathroom and say "hold on a minute I'm getting it directly from the supplier."

“Is it an acronym for What an Idiotic Idea?” asked another, while many made references to Wii and the name’s connection with urine.
or is it the

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