NGC or GCN?

[arcade15]

looks like we werent the only confused ones about why the gamecube's abbreviation is GCN ----> http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/board/message?board.id=nintendogamecube&message.id=882939

[275ahadi70]

Dude, that guy in there that said every console of the past decade has had 3 letters/digits for its abbreviation needs to be smacked.

[J. Hunter]

Yeah, what the hell was he/she talking about? What about Classic Gameboy? It was just GB. And SNES was four letters. They must have been smoking something really strange...