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History lesson needed
RE: Nintendo--The company traditionally comes up with an entirely new name for each console.

Let's see...
NES - SNES
GameBoy - Virtual Boy - GameBoy Color - GameBoy Advanced


Now here's an interesting tidbit. Nintendo was originally colaborating with Sony to make a SNES-CD system codenamed "Play Station". Nintendo changed their mind and wanted to go cart based (N64), so Sony said went ahead and made the system standalone.

PlayStation now enjoys branding for (soon to be) 5 systems:
PlayStation
PlayStation 2
PSX
PSP
PlayStation 3 =) (gooo Sony)
Posted by: peterflynn   Posted on: 03/01/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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