IGN did its best to make sense of yesterday's
Nintendo Wii announcement by going right to the
source, Nintendo. According to Nintendo of America's VP of corporate affairs, Perrin Kaplan, Wii is the next
in a line of unique product/service names that includes, Google, Virgin Airlines, Amazon, and Napster. But Wii
surpasses these beloved names because it operates on multiple levels. "It looks like two people with heads who can
play," says Kaplan. That's odd, to us it just looks like Nintendo doubled the letter i.While Kaplan successfully dodged questions about Wii's inherent phallic connotation, she did have a few words for the haters: "Live with it, sleep with it, eat with it, move along with it..." And to that we add, just wiigle with it!
[Thanks Gareth]
