For the last 17 years, hearing people say "Nintendo Wii" or "Nintendo Wii U" inexplicably makes my blood boil. Like, I get it. Having "Nintendo" in the name makes sense and it's kind of a mystery why Nintendo didn't do it in the first place. But that's simply not what they are called.
THIS!! It bothers me so much that so many people do this!! I don’t hear “Nintendo Wii U” as much, but “Nintendo Wii” is
extremely common, even from so-called professionals, which is super weird because it’s always been officially referred to as just “Wii”—and that makes sense, because “Nintendo Wii” just doesn’t sound good, lol. Plus it’s a
longer name with
more syllables, and generally people will
shorten official terms (like saying “Wiimote” instead of “Wii Remote”—which is another pet peeve of mine—or dropping the “Nintendo” from other system names like saying just “3DS” instead of “Nintendo 3DS”), so using “Nintendo Wii” instead of just “Wii” as it’s officially known just makes absolutely no sense at all! I’ll never understand why this is such a widespread thing!
Another one that bothers me is people using the incorrect plural for official terms, like “amiibos”, “Joy-Cons”, “Pikachus”, “Pikmins”, etc. Again, that’s another instance of making a word
longer (and sound worse) when the official plural is just the same word with no “s” added. People already understand this concept for other words like deer, sheep, fish, etc., so I don’t understand why some people refuse to acknowledge the official plural of terms like “amiibo” and such.
And then there’s mispronunciations like pronouncing the Pokémon “Arceus” as “Ar-
KEE-us” instead of “Ar-
SEE-us”, which is more notable now that we have a game with “Arceus” in the title. And, like, I understand that Pokémon Battle Revolution had pronounced it the other way first, but that was before Arceus was even officially revealed and it’s been almost 15 years now since the correct official pronunciation has been around so I don’t know why so many people still get it wrong even now, especially when we have the name pronounced correctly in Nintendo Directs and such with the title of Pokémon Legends: Arceus.
I could go on and on, ‘cause there are so many instances of people ignoring official spelling/capitalization/pronunciation/etc. that bother me endlessly, but I guess I just have a tendency to pick up on this kind of stuff and care about it more than most people.
EDIT: Also, it’s
not a “D-Pad”—it’s the “+Control Pad”!! Almost
nobody ever gets this one right, despite Nintendo
never calling it a “D-Pad” anymore—and I’m not sure they ever actually called it that in the first place; I tried to find the original source of the term “D-Pad” but only came up with dead ends, and I’m not convinced it was ever an official Nintendo term to begin with like most people seem to think, but I could be wrong. Either way, though, that’s absolutely
not what it’s called now, and if it ever
was officially called that it certainly hasn’t been for multiple decades now.
