Talk:Super Nintendo Entertainment System

SNES pronunciation

In some newer YouTube videos you can hear people call it "snazz" instead of s-n-e-s. How common was this at the time of its release? KhlavKhalash (talk) 14:30, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

I've never once heard it in my life. Source: am old. -- ferret (talk) 16:46, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

This isn’t the best place to ask but I recall hearing that snazz was more common among Europeans.--67.70.103.36 (talk) 17:57, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Spelling SNES out loud as "S.N.E.S." is the North American pronunciation. In some other countries, such as the UK, it's pronounced "Snez".

This has potential WP:ENGVAR implications for Wikipedia. In American English, "an SNES game" would be correct, but in British English, "a SNES game" would be correct.

All of the above also goes for NES.

And after having written all that, I see this is already covered in a footnote in this article: The name "SNES" can be pronounced by English speakers as an acronym (one word, like "NATO") with various pronunciations, an initialism (a string of letters, like "IBM"), or as a hybrid, like "JPEG". In written English, the choice of indefinite article ("a" or "an") is therefore problematic. Popcornfud (talk) 19:58, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Surely that would only apply when speaking (i.e. someone from the US may say "...an S-N-E-S game"), but the written rules don't change (it would be written "...a SNES game" in both American and British English. Total Eclipse (talk) 10:30, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

No, the writing follows the pronunciation. We write "a UFO", not "an UFO". Popcornfud (talk) 11:04, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

I always called it the S-N-E-S. but this isn't really a forum to ask your questions and chat. 2601:3C5:8180:31D0:2D9E:3981:126D:2327 (talk) 02:35, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Japanese government asking video game manufacturers

The page includes "Nintendo's initial shipment of 300,000 units sold out within hours, and the resulting social disturbance led the Japanese government to ask video game manufacturers to schedule future console releases on weekends." which does have a citation, for "The Ultimate History of Video Games", but after looking for some time I can't seem to find another source for this.

Checking the Japanese version of this article has no mention of such a thing, and some basic searches in Japansese, don't seem to find anything of the sort. The book seems to have some criticism for lack of research on some facts before, but do we have any other citations for this? IcePage (talk) 01:51, 2 June 2025 (UTC)