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Interesting! On an somewhat related note, could someone explain to me why GameCube has always been abbreviated as GCN? GameCube Nintendo seems like it would be

• MrCharismatist 7y ago
  It's because "Cube" has an N in it in the metric alphabet.
• ainar-g 7y ago
  The Wiki says[1]: > Abbreviated NGC in Japan and GCN in Europe and North America. So it was “GCN” for Europe as well. It could be somethings like “GameCube de Nintendo” in French and Spanish, “GameCube da Nintendo” in Portuguese, “GameCube di Nintendo” in Italian. Maybe they've decided that the European and Romance-langauge markets were more important for some reason? Either that, or some entity has copyrighted “NGC” in the US or Europe. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube
• flukus 7y ago
  NGC was the common abbreviation is for the Neo Geo Color (despite what wikipedia says): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_Pocket_Color https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_Pocket_Color
• dfox 7y ago
  GCN comes from the part number prefix that was used by the ODM (almost certainly BroadOn) in development and “Game Cube (for) Nintendo” makes sense in that context. In similar vein, Wii is REV, as in “REVolution”.