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http://www.pantsland.com [Pantsland] All of this is getting the Wii into the mind of the gaming population, which will make it easier to market when the shipping date comes around. While I doubt that Nintendo would name a console based purely on getting it covered on countless blogs, giving it an interesting name does create a talking point, thus half of the marketing department’s job is already done.

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http://www.pantsland.com [Pantsland] Go Play with Your Wii: When it comes down to it, it is going to be the gaming experience that sells this console anyway. It was never Nintendo’s intention to build a console that could compete with other next-gen systems on a hardware bases - it is competing on a ‘fun’

[Joystiq] Today in Joystiq: April 28, 2006 [update 1]: While there is certainly other news going on the world, right now the entire gaming community is still fixated upon the Nintendo Wii -- if not the console, then surely the name. In non-Nintendo news, Halo 3 will be making a brief E3 appearance, Texans may get taxed for games, and Mother 3 dominates Japan.

http://www.sfist.com [SFist] SFist Tech Roundup: Super Boss-Fight Mega... : Nintendo gave bloggers-who-think-they're-funny a present on Thursday by announcing the new name for their upcoming Revolution console (warning: slow-loading Flash site). It's going to be called "Wii."

eastwikkers: DeVey's Media Snapshots 4.28.06 Nintendo Names Its Game Console: Wii New York Times Nintendo’s new gaming console, due out in November, will be call Wii (pronounced “we”). The console will be competing with Sony’s Playstation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360.

http://www.psfk.com [PSFK : Global Trends Collaborative] Nintendo Revolution To Be Called The Wii: This is the reaction from one of our contributors, Floyd Hayes: Erm...Nintendo's nextgen console, codenamed "Revolution" has been officially named "Wii" as in "we" - check out the gaming blogs

http://blog.wired.com [Blog.wired.com] Game|Life: Plus, the distrust that such a move would engender between Nintendo and certain members of the media, who would have all been tricked into writing false stories... I hardly think they'd do that.

[Britishgaming.co.uk] British Gaming Blog: In a break from all the urine based jokes for Nintendo Wii, more scans for Zelda: Phantom Hourglass from Japanese magazines have came out. We’ve got some interesting cuts from the scans below, but go even below that for a link to Jeux-France for the full scans.

http://www.gizmodo.net [Gizmodo.net] Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog: 10 comments Latest by Rask Permalink: Nintendo Revolution Renamed Wii ... Got the game to get someone to come home with you, but not the skills to seal the ...

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