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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Shocking Secret behind the Wii U name REVEALED!

So Nintendo just announced their new console at E3: it will be called the Wii U. At least they didn't go with Wii 2, the most boring name possible, right?

...wait a minute. The English word "Two" is pronounced "Tsu-" in Japanese. The hiragana for Tsu looks like this:


...and if we turn it sideways...





COINCIDENCE!?

(probably; Tsu would be written with katakana being a foreign word as it is, and there's basically no way to make a 2 out of that, as you can see here. But this is how my mind works. Sad, huh?)

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