So, in the next generation of the video game console wars the competitors will be the already-released Microsoft XBox 360, the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3, and the Nintendo Wii.<\/p>\n
That’s right. \u00a0The Wii.<\/p>\n
Between you and me, I’m suddenly think Diane Duane and delphines here, but I’m sure that\u00a0Star Trek<\/em>\u00a0geekdom isn’t what Nintendo had in mind.<\/p>\n Nintendo has always used code-names before they announce the official name for their systems. \u00a0The GameCube was code-named the Dolphin. \u00a0Revolution, as nice a name as that was, was merely a code-name for what we’ll be calling a few short months from now, the Wii.<\/p>\n The name is already going in for derision<\/a> because of the name itself and the funky spelling. \u00a0Maybe it’s just me, but I’d be embarrassed to say to someone, “Hey, do you want to come over and play my Wii?” \u00a0Yes, that<\/em>‘s going to go over well. \u00a0Of course, Penny Arcade may have the silliest take on the Wii’s name<\/a> and how Nintendo got there. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo. \u00a0Why do they keep doing stupid things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, in the next generation of the video game console wars the competitors will be the already-released Microsoft XBox 360, the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3, and the Nintendo Wii. That’s right. \u00a0The Wii. Between you and me, I’m suddenly think Diane Duane and delphines here, but I’m sure that\u00a0Star Trek\u00a0geekdom isn’t what Nintendo had inContinue reading “On the Nintendo Wii”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1079,4091],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-nintendo","tag-video-games","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}