They have always been. I'd seen and heard them mentioned as "the Kyoto card dealer(京都の花札屋)" than by the name, online and offline. Same people would just mention

They have always been. I'd seen and heard them mentioned as "the Kyoto card dealer(京都の花札屋)" than by the name, online and offline. Same people would just mention Sony or Toshiba or JAL, but not always Nintendo. Personally I don't do this, but that's how it always was.