Topic: Let's talk names

That cracked me up

Nintendo Reality+

If it's a hybrid, I think Nexus is a good name. Console only should be something that talks up performance, like Flash or something. A handheld name should be distinct from previous patterns, too. Portal would be great if it linked to a console.

They might run into some problems with those names.... Nexus in particular because of the obvious overlap with this media box from Google/Asus

especially given said device has this as one of the big optional accessories
Just asking for trouble

And I'm not sure if Valve would be particularly happy about a game console being named the "Portal". It's clearly a different product and it might be ok but again, asking for trouble. I mean the estate of Philip K Dick wasn't particularly happy about Google using Nexus. And there isn't even a slight potential that people might confuse a piece of Google hardware with a fictional Android. Calling a Nintendo piece of hardware the "Nintendo Portal" is not much better than if you called it it the "Nintendo Sonic" or the "Nintendo Halo"....

I think they might be trying the virtual reality business, but rather than seeing your environment via a 3D camera/screen, it lets you experience everything in your environment for yourself (like the NerveGear?)

@skywake How about the "Nintendo Sonic Boom"?

The Nintendo Shii: Your new robotic girlfriend and game console.

as long as I can continue to play games as it makes me a sandwich lol jk

If Home Console: Nintendo Kangarū(NK)
if Handheld: Nintendo GameMax (NGM)
i ran out ideas so...

I think the only name that wont confuse consumers is the Wii Uu

Well we had The Wii. The only thing I can think of for a number 2 console would be...

The Puu.

I thank you.

NS7 or NES7. Knowing Nintendo, it will be the "New WiiU3D"... and we'll all fall out of our chairs the morning of E3 2016.

Console: Ultra Nintendo Entertainment System. Really anything that picks up the NES naming scheme again.
Handheld: Gameboy Evolution. The Gameboy brand needs to return.
And while I'm talking about things that need to return, I would really like to see the red Nintendo logo again rather than the grey one.

Console: U I/Us/Them/He/She/It/Y'all (or whatever regional variant of this you use)
Handheld: PlayaMan

I feel like the second one would be a hit.

"Portable: The Gameboy HD (consumer: ahh, so it's like the Gameboy? Not another DS reskin? And it's HD. Cool!)"

This is 2015 it would be more like Gameboy HD (consumer: uhh that is the most sexist name I have ever heard of. I am offended. Nintendo gets sued for millions. Nintendo wins case claims that it was a Gamegirl but it changed its mind. The media claims consumers that do not respect it being a Gameboy are a disgrace.)

I was just going to write that until I saw your post.

Since there was a lot of discussion involving "transformation" at Nintendo during the E3 presentation, I would say the console will be named using a word meaning to change or transform.

CONSOLE: I say go back to the Revolution!
HANDHELD: I really like the idea of an HDS!
HYBRID: None, because I feel this is a bad idea...

Using a word like "Revolution" would make it easier for the simple people who thought Wii U was an add on to see that a new system has come out, and it was the original name for the Wii. It has a nice ring to it as well.

I think they'll stick with Nintendo NX or NX if it is a hybrid. My intial impression of NX is that is stands for "Nintendo Cross", which would fit pretty well with a hybrid console or maybe (stretching it) with a handheld.

Nintendo NX might actually be the proper name, and it's not that bad if you think X stands for "Cross".

Otherwise, I came up with these just out of the top of my head :
Nintendo Neptune
Nintendo Cosmos (or Kosmos, Qosmos...)
Nintendo Insignia
Nintendo Omega
Nintendo Ulysses
Nintendo iKon (imagine Intel Core i series and 4K resolution! derp)
Nintendo Prism
Nintendo HyperCube (the four-dimensional geometric equivalent to a cube, also known as tesseract)
TsrAkt ( or some other styling around tesseract)
(...)
GameCube II (hey, I like this one. Good ol' GCN. Maybe styled as GameCube ][ like the Apple ][ )

Yeah I like what all the people are saying about the Nintendo X, especially for a hybrid console. You'd keep the NX codename but sound a little more official, I guess? And maybe the X would be pronounced as "cross" like street fighter x tekken or any of the other crossovers. This "x cross" thing seems to be a huge craze in Japan.