According to CNN Money, Miyamoto wasn't at all sure about the renaming of the Revolution, news that will surprise many, not least as it seems unlikely the media-trained Mario Maker - under the watchful eye of Nintendo PR overlord Yasuhiro Minagawa - would say something that might damage the emerging brand.
In his weekly column, CNN's Chris Morris says, "Psst. Want to know a Wii secret? The man who created Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong wasn't too sure about the new name for Nintendo's next generation console either at first." Wow, quite a shock!. Morris continues:
You see what happened there? Miyamoto says he liked the name Revolution, CNN reports that he didn't like the name Wii, which is kind of like saying SPOnG's very own Andrew Micklethwaite doesn't like the lasagne they do at the pub, because he really prefers the chilli with garlic bread.
In his weekly column, CNN's Chris Morris says, "Psst. Want to know a Wii secret? The man who created Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong wasn't too sure about the new name for Nintendo's next generation console either at first." Wow, quite a shock!. Morris continues:
"Of course, he's a big fan of it now - and fully supports it. But like a large percentage of the company's fan base (and the rest of the gaming world, for that matter), he really liked the machine's code name: Revolution.
"When we first thought about it, myself and others felt that the name Revolution was very appropriate to what we were doing," Shigeru Miyamoto told me recently, "but [Revolution] is a name that was almost threatening to non-gamers. It wasn't acceptable. So we thought this was more friendly and inviting."
Miyamoto, of course, has had longer than the rest of us to get used to it. The Wii name, he said, was finalized more than six months before it was announced to the world.
"When we first thought about it, myself and others felt that the name Revolution was very appropriate to what we were doing," Shigeru Miyamoto told me recently, "but [Revolution] is a name that was almost threatening to non-gamers. It wasn't acceptable. So we thought this was more friendly and inviting."
Miyamoto, of course, has had longer than the rest of us to get used to it. The Wii name, he said, was finalized more than six months before it was announced to the world.
You see what happened there? Miyamoto says he liked the name Revolution, CNN reports that he didn't like the name Wii, which is kind of like saying SPOnG's very own Andrew Micklethwaite doesn't like the lasagne they do at the pub, because he really prefers the chilli with garlic bread.
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