Nothing was ground-breaking in his talk at the Digital Contents Expo, but a few little things of interest did pop up.

Shigeru Miyamoto’s keynote to open Asiagraph—one of the subevents of the Digital Contents Expo—has now come and gone, and while there weren’t any surprise Nintendo announcements involved, there was still some interesting content.

The most amusing out of everything was the dislike of the renaming of Nintendo’s latest console to ’Wii’ by Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo of America. Miyamoto said that they both hated it because of a certain similarity between it and a common slang word for urine. He thinks that many people feel natural with the name, although as we all know the ’jokes’ still haven’t ended concerning it. He also mentioned that he believes the Wii is going back to basics in gaming, which would presumably mean the ’fun’ centred games of old.

The original Legend of Zelda title for the NES was touched on, too. Miyamoto said that Nintendo wasn’t so happy with aspects of the title originally, like the open world nature. According to him, they thought that players would have trouble knowing what to do next. This is certainly one element that has been addressed with more recent games in the series, which have featured different help systems like guide NPCs.

Finally, we now know Kirby’s original name; the pink puff-ball was called "Tinkle Popo". We couldn’t help thinking about the Wii naming information he touched on earlier when we heard this.

Source: WiiNintendo