What's in a name? Everything. Products live and die by their catchy or unique titles, and children, oh man are they in for a tough life if they're hastily named Richard Long or Nancy Weiner. Obviously the same goes for game consoles, which go through several stages of mock ups and codenames before they ever earn the right to sit next to Big Mouth Billy Bass on a Wal-Mart shelf.
Some of these you may know, others you may not. Just be glad the R&D department doesn't have final say.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
New Chrono Trigger Form-ism figures of Crono and Marle have been showcased at a Square Enix pop-up store, with pre-orders expected soon.
I think that has a little more "OOMPH" to it than the Sega Dreamcast. I think they should have stuck with that.
Cause that's what it does, it hunts down the BABOONS and punishes them...........AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA
I used to love that name. By the way, is the new XBOX codenamed Phoenix? I tell ya what, If Sony doesn't get their act together soon I may have to buy into that if it comes next year (Christmas obviously).
Or as you know it;
"XBOX we have to come up with a larger sounding number than '3' to make ours seem superior to the market, QUICKLY!!! make it sound a bit like the word 'Revolution' too!"
Personally, I thought the name "Ultra 64" was awesome. I don't know why Nintendo changed the name of their system to "Nintendo 64."
I remember seeing Killer Instinct and Cruis n' USA in the arcades with the "Ultra 64" logo in their intros back in the day.