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Why GCN? What is DS?
mariocaseman:
Back on topic, I do not have an answer to my first question: Why did Nintendo abbreviate the Cube as GCN instead of NGC? Anybody know for sure, maybe with an article on the topic?
zakurowrath:
--- Quote from: mariocaseman on August 01, 2012, 05:56:22 PM ---Back on topic, I do not have an answer to my first question: Why did Nintendo abbreviate the Cube as GCN instead of NGC? Anybody know for sure, maybe with an article on the topic?
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Possibly because when comes to some names in Japanese they're backwards. Example in Japanese the last name of a person, Miyamoto Shigeru goes first I believe to show respect to the family name. In this case the family name of the console Gamecube goes first and it's first name Nintendo goes last. I could be completely wrong but it is a theory.
Another theory is NGC in the United States is a acronym of another company so rather than try to obtain the rights to it, they just changed it to GCN. In Japan however it is NGC :P
Dan-Fu:
Most likely the second one.
amarthar:
--- Quote from: zakurowrath on August 01, 2012, 06:20:44 PM ---Another theory is NGC in the United States is a acronym of another company so rather than try to obtain the rights to it, they just changed it to GCN. In Japan however it is NGC :P
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Most likely that is the case:
http://www.ngccoin.com/
The same thing was with the Dreamcast having a blue logo in the EU since the orange swirly thing was a logo of another company.