You could very well say that this could be the biggest naming screw-up in a very long time. This is as bad as the "John Romero's about to make you his bitch" ads for Daikatana. Going from the Revolution which denotes a battle between themselves, the PS3, and and the Xbox360 to something that will make people think of the toilet is really something. And this is the next generation console that could make or break the company.
It is getting quite a bit of buzz already but not the kind you really want. I am betting even money that the urine reference will end up dogging this system from now until the thing is a distant memory. I'm sure this won't drive Nintendo out of business because they still have the their amazingly popular hand-held gaming system but it will probably hurt their profitability quite a bit.
Sometimes a name becomes a phenomena like Ipod but those make you think of good things. Ipod makes me think of Intelligent Pod like a really smart pea or similar legume or maybe a futuristic house. I think that name as well as the look is what made APPL a pile of money. I wonder what Penny Arcade is going to say about all this.
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