flameboy Posted October 23, 2006 Author Share Posted October 23, 2006 It is just a white DVD player.Those two people are geniuses and this is a shite thread. Stopp telling Nintendo how to do their job, if they cock up they wont have one. They are accountable to their sales, marketing, accounts and actions over the Christmas period. NOT YOU. jeez chill out, was just saying what i'd heard. thought this board was for discussing what we thought about the Wii, thats what I'm doing just giving an impression of what I think, as well as snap shots (small snap shots) of the publics perception of Wii and why I think it might be, I'm not telling Nintendo how to do thier jobs just what I'd like to see them to do, theres a slight difference. EDIT: Also one other reaction I forgot to write in my intial thread starter cos I'd forgotten about it owing to my rambling about the other things was a teenage boy pronouncing Wii as "Why"?!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emasher Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 maybe you should have explained the wii to that girl and her father Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintendork Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 My gripe was with the thread title and your attitude mostly. I don't care what people think in shops.. if they think Nintendo make DVD players chances are they haven't ever played games before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinist Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 me and a few other people are sick to death of Nintendorks attitude In my GAME store there is no advertising and only a few pre-orders have been made, probebly because of the lack of advertising by nintendo, but i suppose when it gets closser to the release date more people will become aware of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted October 23, 2006 Author Share Posted October 23, 2006 maybe you should have explained the wii to that girl and her father I would have done was with another customer. did look back to see if they were still there to ask if they needed any help, but alas they were gone. Nintendork: My gripe was with the thread title and your attitude mostly. I don't care what people think in shops.. if they think Nintendo make DVD players chances are they haven't ever played games before. I think it is down to the dispaly material more, the fact that the girl and her dad were browsing around in the games section, makes me think that between them they must have played games, or atleast have some knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCK Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Surprise, not everybody is well-read in games... All people who don't know the stuff you do seems ignorant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted October 23, 2006 Author Share Posted October 23, 2006 Right Im just gonna stop, cos seems this thread has just turned into me having to defend myself for just saying what had happened and that nintendo need to try and sort it out is they want the Wii to appeal to the wider market. EDIT: DCK, just re-read ur post were you having a go at me or just making a general observation using the proverbial "you" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCK Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 It's the proverbial you. I can understand where you're coming from but you seem to take it as a personal offence. I mean, what do movie fans think of people whot hate Pulp Fiction? What do photographers think of you buying a random camera because it says Sony on the back? Is that ignorance? No, you simply don't know, and that's a common thing. It's not as if this is such a major issue, there are a lot of people who do like the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zechs Merquise Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 My gripe was with the thread title and your attitude mostly. I don't care what people think in shops.. if they think Nintendo make DVD players chances are they haven't ever played games before. Well most of us care what people think. If the Wii doesn't sell, that's bad for Nintendo, and bad for Nintendo fans, who want Nintendo to be a success, because then it will continue to make home consoles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshMat Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 I actually find Nintendork rather amusing, also i agree with a lot of his views. Seriously, it's just under 2 months, there's plenty of time for them to start advertising. If they did do a public event, who would go? People like us, people who already have their pre orders down, and have been following for a long time. Once the marketing gets going, people will be interested, i ahd a mate who didnt want one, now he thinks it looks really cool, after looking up about it on the web, ads etc will gnerate interest and knowledge but it doesn't really need to start until next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellyn Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 I actually find Nintendork rather amusing, also i agree with a lot of his views. Yeah, he's actually a great source of amusement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Are Factor 5 ignorance? Factor 5, the creators of Rogue Leader on the Nintendo Gamecube spoke about the Wii in the latest issue of EGM and mentioned that they were “extremely dissapointed” in the power and the sound (no Dolby Digital) of the Wii and called it a “Gamecube 1.5″. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xernobyl Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 It's a white DVD player with a bunch of extra chips, and without MPEG2 decoder. I guess that kind of thing even happens in Japan. I hope people's opinion about the Wii get's a lot better when they start knowing people that knows people that knows people that have played some friend's Wii. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 It's the proverbial you. I can understand where you're coming from but you seem to take it as a personal offence. I mean, what do movie fans think of people whot hate Pulp Fiction? What do photographers think of you buying a random camera because it says Sony on the back? Is that ignorance? No, you simply don't know, and that's a common thing. It's not as if this is such a major issue, there are a lot of people who do like the idea. ok cheers sorry for misinterpreting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stefkov Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Also one other reaction I forgot to write in my intial thread starter cos I'd forgotten about it owing to my rambling about the other things was a teenage boy pronouncing Wii as "Why"?!!!! Thats happened to me quite a few times. People are saying it as Why, and some as Why-i. Then i say its Wii, the proper way, and theyre liek really that sounds shit. Oh the oh so broad minds of our european youth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshiking Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 I think one of the good things about it here in Norway is that people tend to pronounce it "Vi", which is the exact same as the norwegian word for "We". (The 'V' being due to the fact that we don't use 'W' in norwegian.) So people see the connection more, due to the language. And also, there's no other way to pronounce 'i' in norwegian then the way it's intended in "Wii", so there's no mishaps like that. Generally I think norwegian people are much more comfortable with the name of it.. Obviously many people pronounce with a 'W' rather than a 'V', but that's mainly people who are familiar with the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Supposadely GAME shops are going mental over the Wii? I read on another forum that this person went into GAME and literally the employees were picking up the phone saying 'we suggest you preorder a Nintendo Wii now' and posters were everywhere and everyone was talking about it. I went into Comet in Colchester yesterday on this retail park (The new-look PC world is great by the way if anyone cares, lol). NOTHING was in there...at all. NOTHING. I went and looked at the LCD'S and suddenly the screen went White...i thought...mmmm....then to my surprise a massive 'WII' came up on every single screen in the shop, and '2006' afterwards. That wasn't all though, i went past a couple aged 50-60 at the time and the women said 'whats that?' to her husband, to my surprise he replied 'A new games machine'. Somethings working....it's up to NOE to keep people in the know, and sadly we all know NOE are really quite poor for doing this, we'll see.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 I think one of the good things about it here in Norway is that people tend to pronounce it "Vi", which is the exact same as the norwegian word for "We". (The 'V' being due to the fact that we don't use 'W' in norwegian.) So people see the connection more, due to the language. And also, there's no other way to pronounce 'i' in norwegian then the way it's intended in "Wii", so there's no mishaps like that. Generally I think norwegian people are much more comfortable with the name of it.. Obviously many people pronounce with a 'W' rather than a 'V', but that's mainly people who are familiar with the system. hmmm thats interesting for a word that Nintendo picked for it's universal world wide appeal. Although I suppose it makes sense also that some languages wouldn't have a W, much like we don't have alot of the letters that make up some other languages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshiking Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Well, we have it, we just don't use it. I can't really think of a single word in Norwegian (that isn't just taken directly from English) in which there's a W. We also don't use C, we only use K. But noone cares. Sorry, go on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emasher Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 me and a few other people are sick to death of Nintendorks attitude In my GAME store there is no advertising and only a few pre-orders have been made, probebly because of the lack of advertising by nintendo, but i suppose when it gets closser to the release date more people will become aware of it. i think i'm a few other people : peace: wow people were aparently lined up at one in the morning for my local eb :shock: (i preordered in zellers) (see thread wii preorder scams for more info on zeller's "package") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lillster Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 My mate's brother is getting a Wii, and his owned playstation consoles all his life. So something must be working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McMad Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 I think the big advertisement Nintendo have got on the Toys 'r' us in Times Square is pretty genius, it will easily be seen by thousands of people. And I like Nintendork, he isn't afraid to voice his opinion and he isn't a sheep like some people I suspect.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 What a stupid thread, your gonna get people who are thick as pigs shit anywhere, about anything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phube Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 I think one of the good things about it here in Norway is that people tend to pronounce it "Vi", which is the exact same as the norwegian word for "We". (The 'V' being due to the fact that we don't use 'W' in norwegian.) Genius!!!! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh64 Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 im sure Nintendo will do some good advertising, I was imressed with how they advertised the DS and arent they spending 17million on advertising for Wii and DS lite, that sounds good to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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