WELCOME

The game's creator, Masahiro Sakurai, released a statement that says

April 29, 2017 by Paul Fletcher

The game's creator, Masahiro Sakurai, released a statement that says he believes the game's pronunciations "are a mistake because the character never uses the N-E-S word in these original words." His statement is followed by a link to a video which shows the final result, showing the exact same character's pronouncement.

At any other time, this would have been a pretty obvious example of a "N-E-S"-style argument. But after years of trying to settle it, the decision to pronounce the Japanese word "N-E" back into the English-speaking world has been overturned and a new letter has appeared in the English-language version.

The move has sparked a massive discussion about the need for a better pronunciation of "N-E-S." I'd like to hear a few more comments (all in English), but we're not going to. I'm not going to speculate on what kind of people are going to try to "fix" the pronunciation of "N-E-S," but here's what I think we can safely assume: that Nintendo's decision to pronounce "N-E-S" as "nes" might be a bit of a joke, since the character was created in the 1990s. I'm sure you already know that N-E-S is the Japanese alphabet for "noun."

In the game's English demo, N-E-S is pronounced "nes." In the Japanese version, it is pronounced "N-E-S."

While the exact words for "N-E-S" were not decided until much later in the development process, N-E-S is pronounced "N-E-S."

The reason why it is pronounced "N-E-S" is because it is an original, original, original word, and it sounds pretty similar to the N-E-S pronunciation of "N-E-S." The two words are pronounced the same way, and they have a similar meaning (and a different meaning of "nes"). N-E-S has a long history in Japanese literature, so it's not a perfect way of pronouncing it. But I am convinced that the characters' pronunciation is the better choice for the same reason: because it's a unique, original, original word, and it doesn't sound like any kind of "noun." That is, it's actually very good for English speakers.