The Nintendo......GO?

[Richter]

link via Digg, some interesting comments there
digg comments (http://www.digg.com/gaming/Nintendo_Revolution_Renamed_to_Nintendo_GO_)

huh wha?
story link (http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/nintendo-revolution-nintendo-go/)

http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/03/nintendo_go.jpg

edit -
new image:
http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/03/nin_go_brochure.jpg

[Oobgarm]

Lots of speculation on this.....

Go is Japanese for 'five'.

Rev/Go would be their fifth console. If so, I can see the Gamecube and N64 logos being paid homage with that image.

It also could be the name of an online service.

[Lothars]

Could be an interesting name, but we will see

[c0ldb33r]

I like that name alot. Very catchy.

I can picture an ad based around the speed racer cartoon. :)

Go Nintendo, Go Nintendo, Go Nintendo, GoooOOOOoooo!!!

[chrisbid]

and to go totally full circle, doesnt the term atari come from the japanese game 'go'?

[smokehouse]

Nintendo’s president/founder is obsessed with the game Go, I wonder if this has anything to do with it.

[njiska]

Debunked, speech over and it's still the Rev. Thankfully.

[Ed Oscuro]

Needs "paso" in front of the "go," and ridiculously oversized hardware (in comparision to the rest of the internals) to drive an LCD screen to fit.

[extrarice]

I don't think the "Go" and the intersecting + logo is for the Rev. The logo and name "Go" (and the text talking about a system level instead of logo, and no mention of backwards-compatability or the motion sensitive controllers) to me says "marketing strategy" for how Nintendo's products will merge together to form one larger idea. Kind of like Apple's "digital hub" idea from a few years ago. "Nintendo: GO" - games on the go, games/game data shared between devices, games how you want them, etc. But as far as I know, only the Rev and the DS are confirmed to be linkable. Since there are three crosses, that might mean a third product is yet to be revealed.

If this picture is legit, that is.

[Snapple]

If the news conference debunks that "GO" is the new name for the Revolution, then thank God, because it would be an awful name for a console.

First off, despite its meaning in Japanese, it has its own meaning in English. "GO" sounds like a portable system, not a console. Secondly, something about it sounds very childish.

Revolution is a great name for a console. Needs to stay that way.

But that leaves the question then, what is "GO" if not the Revolution itself?

[MrRoboto19XX]

Maybe its the new gameboy, maybe "GO" is an acronym, with the G being for "Gameboy". Hey, who knows, right?

...Gameboy's Offspring perhaps? LOL

[Richter]

well GO being the Revolution is false.
the logo was apparently taken from the following application:

http://gonintendo.com/wp-content/photos/7editeurs20060325_130042_0_big.jpg

if it's not the Revolution, then what, if anything, is it?

:hmm:

[Jibbajaba]

Perhaps the name of their online service, like XBox Live?

Just a guess.

Chris

[JJNova]

Namco, Sega, and Nintendo worked together on the Tr-Force arcade structure....

[CYRiX]

damnit richter I wanted to post that.

[Niku-Sama]

....if it's not the Revolution, then what, if anything, is it?

:hmm:

well that program being a web editor its possible they have other editors/applications that nintendo is using as a partner ship for mabe an online thing or mabe they make the application to create the new games?

[SNKFan75]

Either name will be fine by me. As long as it lives up to the hype!