False, Ness is a play on NES and Ninten is a placeholder name that a lot of Nintendo characters were given until they thought of a better name, but Ninten kept it for whatever reason.
Did you know that the people killed most often in bank robberies are the robbers?
Did you know that 25 out of the 26 playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Melee made their first playable appearance on the GameCube in that game. The only character who had been playable on the GameCube before Melee was Luigi in Luigi's Mansion.