We were all perfectly content with the Nintendo Revolution a few months ago. It was a dynamic name for a dynamic machine, a stamp of intent on a piece of gaming hardware set to redefine the gaming industry and its approach to gameplay control.

That all changed though, didn’t it? You recall that fateful day, when the Internet metaphorically wet itself in utter perplexed disbelief as Nintendo joyously announced that the Revolution would not be televised and that Wii was the way forward.

How the English-speaking gaming community must have shuffled and frowned in discomfort at the prospect of whispering that word across the counter of a busy EBGames or HMV; the very word itself tasting so wrong as it sat on the lips like a drip of foreboding.

Why, we wondered. Why on Earth would Nintendo do this? The answer, my friends, my dear Wii-owning brothers and sisters, is to be found printed inconspicuously across the left side panel of your new, beautifully clean, sterile white, Wiimote controller.

Go now, retrieve said controller and hasten back to this very post. For, if you are a European Wii consumer, then Nintendo’s dirty little secret is out of the bag. There, for all to see is the Japanese gaming giant’s covert reasoning, the motivation behind its recent re-branding, and the cloying explanation as to why the Revolution was quashed.

Read it, here it is. Absorb the Wiimote’s vile Federal Communications Commission number (FCC), and then scrub yourself clean immediately:

FCC ID: POO-WC45