Nintendo reveals how you pronounce NES

Nintendo has finally revealed how you pronounce NES. Of all places, it comes from WarioWare Gold.

[PhoenixUp]

Most people already pronounce NES as Ness and its successor as the Sness. That or they just say the acronym letter by letter.

Those who don’t will continue to be stuck in their ways of saying it however they want, like how you still have people mispronouncing Mario as “Mary-o” instead of “Mar-ee-o” and Pokemon as “Pok-ee-mon” or “Poke-uh-mon” instead of “Pok-ay-mon”

[kevnb]

I only hear British people say this.

[PapaBop]

I was thinking this too, I know it as nes and snes but hear Americans refer to it as N-E-S and S-N-E-S I guess us British were right all along :D

[ChrisW]

Most English speaking countries love to use acronyms. Whereas, Japanese tend to shorten words into 3 or 4 character words (if written in Katakana) like Smartphone = Sumaho (スマホ), American Football = Amefuto (アメフト), and, of course, Family Computer = Famicom (ファミコン).

But, for them to say that ネス is the correct pronunciation for the non-Japanese Famicom is like saying that Americans are pronouncing "karaoke" correct... GAWD! Hearing people saying, "carry-okay" is like fingernails on a chalkboard!!!

[bigmalky]

Never heard a Brit call it a nes, and I'm a Brit.

[Nu]

R yu British

[Nu]

Bloody hell,why can't British people speak properly

[yomfweeee]

I've never heard anyone say it in my life.

[pcz]

It's NEZ. Any other way is incorrect.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I thought all those pronunciations were obvious, but people can be weird, like when people call soy soy-Ah (sorry, it triggers me so bad). Stuffs me why you get so many downvotes though.

[n1kki6]

Ness and sness sounds dumb. Its an acronym and i will always treat it as one buy using the letters. Not some dumb sounding fake words

[bigmalky]

Its an abbreviation of Nintendo Entertainment System... En Ee Ess makes more sense.

[starchild]

Yeah, I always said N. E. S. as separate letters, since it's an acronym.

[PhoenixUp]

@ n1 & big

By that logic you must think calling the Robotic Operating Buddy as Rob doesn’t make any sense.

Hell you must think people in general who clarify

- Bay Area Rapid Transit as Bart
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration as Nah-sah,
- live action role-playing game as larp
- Special Weapons And Tactics as Swat
- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks as Salt
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization as Nay-toe
- Absent Without Leave as aye-wall
- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome as Ayeds
- As Soon As Possible as Aye-sahp
- Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd as Eye-Key-uh
- Geheime Staatspolizei as Geh-stah-Poe
- Graphics Interchange Format as jiff
- Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus as scoo-bah
- zone improvement plan as zip

are people who don’t make sense and are using nonsensical terms. 🤨 I pity you if that’s the case.

In the English language if an acronym can be said as an easily pronouncible term then many people will simply call it that.

[bigmalky]

TL;DR

It really doesn't matter in the long run. Life is too short.

[PhoenixUp]

Here’s a simple explanation for you. Various terms in vernacular are acronyms commonly shortened as everyday words, so idk why you’d have a problem with people applying the same basic logic to calling the NES the ness

[MWH]

💯%

[ziggurcat]

I’ve always just said the letters.

[Nu]

Genesis and Super Nintendo is how I called it

[MeteorPanda]

l think it comes down to accents with pokemon.

[tigertron]

That's the American pronunciation. The English/British pronunciation is "Ma-ree-oh" and "Poké-uh-mon". What I like to call, the correct pronunciations. :P

I know it's the "N-E-S", but I say "Ness" because it's easier.

[ApocalypseShadow]

I pronounced it as N-E-S. Not ness.

And SNES as S-N-E-S. Not sness.

More acronym and less trying to create a word out of it.

It's like saying "Ninsixtyfour." Instead of N-64.

[NecrumOddBoy]

I have never heard of this Sness/Ness word ordeal until recently. I have always called it the NES or the SNES. That sounds so dumb to me.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Same. I can see gamers going the acronym route by saying "ness." And it is correct. But it didn't sound right to me. Everyone I knew and I said "Nintendo." Or "Super Nintendo." Or would say N-E-S and S-N-E-S.

We went more with initialism like "DVD" even though that way is not correct. But I guess it depends on where you are and what the majority accepted. But if nintendo said "ness," they are right in how they said it.

I should have been more detailed in my above comment. And, phoenix is right above. But I'll be stuck because it sounds better.

[paintedgamer1984]

Watch youtube vidoe where someone is 25 yoa or younger...

[MWH]

It's not dumb, it's a preference that make sense depends on where you are. read PhoenixUp comment above maybe you'll get it.

[Segata]

Same here.

[3-4-5]

Exactly. Growing up as a kid in the 80's/90's nobody called is "sness" or "nes", it was N-E-S, or S-N-E-S.

Do we pronounce UFC "Uffik" no, it's UFC.

Is NFL pronounced "Niffle" no, it's NFL.

It's very simple. I don't care what Nintendo says.

[PurpHerbison]

Do you say N-A-S-A for NASA?

[ChickeyCantor]

> Exactly. Growing up as a kid in the 80's/90's nobody called is "sness" or "nes", it was N-E-S, or S-N-E-S.

You're absolutely wrong about that.

>Do we pronounce UFC "Uffik" no, it's UFC.

That shit doesn't roll of the tongue. You guys make dumb examples to compare it too.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Those are some weird pronunciations for UFC and NFL, I've never even heard them before.

[ChickeyCantor]

In europe no one said " N E S "

We all said NES or SNES. Because rolls easier off the tongue.

NINSIXTYFOUR does not. So we just said Nintendo 64.

[Christopher]

If there's going to be a single way to do it, people need to stick to it. Otherwise it's just whatever goes and no one is right. Which is the case here. It's like GIF or JIF. No one was wrong for pronouncing it properly just because the person who created them think it should be pronounced differently. No one is wrong here for pronouncing it ness or NES, especially since it was advertised as NES and not ness in the U.S...

[PhoenixUp]

You do know that various acronyms in the English language are commonly used as basic words right?

http://mentalfloss.com/arti...

- One of the famous entities in gaming, Sega, is an acronym/abbreviation of SErvice GAmes and nobody thinks its more commonly used name is weird.
- Capcom’s name as another example is an abbreviation/acronym of the term Capsule Computer.
- Konami’s name comes from a conjunction of the names Kagemasa KOzuki, Yoshinobu NAkama, and Tatsuo MIyasako.

So why would you think it’s strange for anybody to classify the NES or SNES as Ness or Sness?

[paintedgamer1984]

Sness bothers me when i hear someone say it but then i think if i was born where the nes or snes wasnt my 1st console or anywhere near the generation i started gaming i might say ness or sness lol like an idiot

[Tapani]

That's just an explanation about what the "foreign version" of Famicom is called, and it just says it is pronounced "nesu" which is a very normal way of interpreting the letters "NES" in katakana. Why would there be any dakuten anyway? It's pretty self-explanatory. Why am I even commenting on this. It's waste of my time lol

[GrizToof]

honestly who cares how you say it, we all will know what your talking about.

[ChickeyCantor]

Of course it is. *scoffs*

[Harkins1721]

If its merely a demo and the guy hasnt said much about it how do we know he wants it to succeed? Is he getting paid for every download? Why cant he be doing this for fun? What goal post am I moving exactly? You from the start said the tree looks like shit. I said from the start its a "work in progress". Meaning he could or could not have the ability to make the game better or worse. Meaning those trees you see could look better in time. That was my point.

Talk about moving goal posts you brought up the bull shit "magic" a simple demo MUST have to showing off SM64 in Unreal 4. Bro its a demo get over yourself. Im sorry I expressed my opinion for liking one of my favorite games of all time and seeing someone do something I could never do. The can have the opinion of saying it looks like shit. I dont fault you for that. I just said that it was still a work in progress. The demo could overall use a ton of improvement in every aspect.

Whats this? Going to the Youtube video people express their fondness for the demo he created? And they tell him Nintendo should hire him to help out with recreating SM64 and OoT? Oh shit people must still think theres still absolutely no magic in this simple short demo.

[ChickeyCantor]

You're talking to me on a different thread about some mundane shit from a different thread?
Miss me with that nonsense.

tl:dr

[Harkins1721]

Oh I do apologize. Would you rather I message you? Our conversation wasn't over so I had more questions. Sorry you think you can just call me dumb and the conversation ends.

[ChickeyCantor]

You need to tone it down a notch you came at me with "Now you're just trolling. Unless you really are this dumb."

You're the first to strike an insult, the implication is there. I don't care for this conversations. Bye.

[bigmalky]

Its pronounced... Fam-ih-com.

[nommers]

Death by Sness-Sness

[mastershredder]

It’s always fun when arogant retro gamer enthusiasts who did not experince the era of gaming culture, try to tell you how to pronounce NES. Get off da lawn!

[chris235]

as always, nintendo is spot on and up to the times LOL. i know, this is just a random blog post, but it‘s funny to read this as an article in 2018 nevertheless :P

[jbrock11]

This article is a misnomer. The reason the katakana reads "ne-su" is because there is literally no other way to pronounce N-E-S in the Japanese language. It's still pronounced N-E-S to normal people because it's an acronym, not a formal name.

[MeteorPanda]

yeah lets ask the japanese howt o pronounce something in another language outside their own?

[Amplitude]

I say N.E.S., Mary-o, and pok-ah-mon because I grew up pronouncing them that way and it makes heckin nerds flip out

[TABSF]

I've also called them Ness and Sness. Every English/British person I know has said this.
N-E-S, S-N-E-S is an American thing. Luckily Nintendo has clarified it, Ness if officially canon xD

[Thomaticus]

I thought this was common knowledge.

[Thomaticus]

Was it N E S ticle or Nesticle. Most people already knew.

[FernDiggidy]

FANTASTIC NEWS!

[yomfweeee]

Arstechnica.com article kind of put this argument to rest.

It is N E S. Nintendo included it in many of their commercials and live presentations. Show me video of anyone from Nintendo pronouncing it one of those other ways.

https://arstechnica.com/gam...