Saturday, April 29, 2006

Nintendon't

Regarding the Nintendo Wii post below:

I know a thing or 3 about design and advertising on a professional level and when I read about the name change here...

"Nintendo said, the written name is meant to visually conjure up the image of two people standing together"

...all I could think of was how Xbox used visual design to market both generations: The first one was "energy trying to stay contained and bursting out" and as they note on the 360, it is supposed to portray the feeling of a "convex shape... or an inhale...the moment right before impact."

...but on a professional level, that's more of the visual nature of the physical product and logo representation (i.e. the secret codes the big corporations use to control us)... not so much the visual values of the letters "Wii"...which if you REALLY look closely:

W i i

...actually looks more like 2 dudes standing in line to walk into a gigantic horse's ass, which directly corresponds to what I think consumers are doing if they run to this nextgen game platform: Death by equine, anal suffocation.

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