Seems off-topic. I won't deny that it's riding a line, because the question is not about something in a game, but about probably a business decision around gaming.
But I personally think it fits more here than on whatever the business stackexchange is. Active Oldest Votes. It was officially branded as 'GC' in Asia, but in order to leverage the strong Nintendo brand name in Europe and North America, they tacked the 'N' on at the end Colin D Colin D 9, 9 9 gold badges 39 39 silver badges 67 67 bronze badges.
Although I don't have any sources to cite for this: it seems to me that nintendo japan was trying to transition away from the N prefix as you see with DS or WII console abbreviations , but nintendo reps elsewhere wanted to keep the N in the name because of the strong brand.
Because they didn't want the N at the beginning the only place they could put it was at the end. But, at least to me, having the N at the end is the confusing part of the decision. The previous consoles had the N at the start to represent the console being made by Nintendo "The Nintendo Gamecube".
Add Topic 51 questions 5 people. Add Topic 1 question 0 people. Observing members: 0 Composing members: 0. As to why, the world may never know. I always just call it a Gamecube or an NGC.
Login or Join to answer. We had trouble talking to the server. Please try again. Unfortunately they too insisted on all caps, so we asked around a bit and eventually Nintendo said it was fine to write it simply as Gamecube or, as you can read above, abbreviated to NGC.
It would almost appear the company couldn't make up its mind, right? Well, not surprisingly that's exactly what has happened. Everything Nintendo said was entirely true at the time.
Oh, but things have changed. One of our very dedicated sources at Nintendo informed us that the answer to the first quiz question was wrong. And, to back it up this person even had a memorandum from Nintendo of America's President, Minoru Arakawa. Arakawa continues to point out that while that is preferred "Nintendo GameCube" is acceptable.
So, we are back to square one, but it is now as official as it can be. What of the "NGC" abbreviation then? Surely that's still correct, it was trademarked. Nintendo of America felt it was necessary to propagate the Nintendo brand name in the Americas so it insisted on having an "N" in the abbreviation.
Why couldn't the firm keep it in front of the GC? This is a video game controller, not a phone!! Not sure on that one. Estil posted Sadly, Nintendo was more than able to make online gaming happen on the 'Cube; they just didn't want to. They chose to focus on GBA connectivity instead. User Info: MawiocUdwoc. That might be a reason. User Info: jimmuy. That actually makes sense; even tough the NeoGeo Pocket Color was very shortlived, it was still around barely around the time when the GCN launched.
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