I didn't believe it at first when my friend told me, had to read around the net a bit before I finally believed it. But I'm over the strangeness of the name, in fact I am starting to get used to it. It's also cool how you can't really initialise the name, unlike N64 and GCN.

EXCUSE ME!! THE GAMECUBE FAILED!!??? theres somethign wropng with you, because fright now, a five year old console is outselling the xbox 360....the consoles name is gamecube

I think Wii is a pretty good name. It's different, like the controller. It's easy to remember. And if people make jokes about it, that's advertising.

It certainly has got people talking about it, my friends and I are still talking about it, there seems to be an endless number of things to talk about. Whether it be the different controllers or just cracking jokes with its name.

Ya, but I still don't see why the DC flopped xD

And, yes Wii is the real name >>

Yes, that is only because of the xb360.

I am a convert. When i grew up i had a mega drive, and the the original PSX. I was VERY disappionted with the PS2, no fun games, like crash bandicoot and light hearted games, and the wonderfull FFXII-XIV after XIV the FF games went crappy (and even they originated at the beginning on the nintendo) and in came (ooh i want to be vulgar) breasts and more breast action, and no light hearted fun games, and so i am now converted over to the cube and am loving yoshi. And who would have thought the 4 swords multiplayer could have caused so much fun and swaering!!!

What's in a name anyways?

The name has grown on me, at first I did not care for it. But now I see the reason behind it, and plan to happily claim to buy a Wii.

I'm expecting Nintendo themselves to use a few puns.

I honestly can't see what is wrong with the name Wii. Revolution was a good code name but i think that the name "Wii" just seems to suit it somehow. As far as i see it, anyone that doesn't like the console because its name sounds the same as an english word that happens to be slang for urinate, doesn't deserve to own one.

What Is It - Wii
or
they where pissed and decided 2 have a weeing contest and pissed all over the console and now the name is wii!!

*SIGH*so many french people will get confused.
I LIKE whoah! caps let me start again.
i like the name wii it's easy to say and means it sells well.

lol 2 true m8 to true.............

to b honest at first i didnt like it but its grown on me and now i think its awsome

wii is the real name damn it why would they change the name so many f@#%en times

Darn... And I was just getting used to the name...

Exactly what Yami riku said. The Wii has a name, and if you don't like it deal with it. Just because the name is Wii doesn't mean it means to go urinate. Besides, the console is a pretty cool name to all my friends, and it's motion sencer for gods sake. Every one should get one, and shouldn't care about the bad (for nonbelievers) name, or the good name (for almost everyone in the world.) The wii is tight, end of story, period!

Wii is definitely the real name. People who don't like it can just get over it. It's like Reggie said at the pre-E3 conference "What did you think of Lexus the first time you heard it, how about Ikea? How about Google??" <- a premo example, I think Google is probably the dumbest name on the net, yet everyone knows it and almost everyone loves it (almost all true computer geeks swear by it, and I can say that because I am one), it's a household name, just like Wii is going to be.

actually google makes sense, its just a respelling (prolly so more people would pronounce it correctly) of the math term googol meaning 10 raised the 100th power, prolly chosen for vast number of pages on the web

just for reference a googol looks something like this:
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

so much easier to do on a computer, but imagine being back in fourth grade learning about the googol and googolplex (10 to the 100th to the 100th) and the teacher telling you to try writing it out by hand to get a grasp of how large the number is....

I think Nintendo would be shooting themselves in the foot if they changed the name...again. Doing it once was a good marketing strategy, gets people more interested and everything but twice i think people will just think Nintendo doesnt have anything together at all and will not waste their money on a console that people couldnt even deside a name on.

"EXCUSE ME!! THE GAMECUBE FAILED!!??? theres somethign wropng with you, because fright now, a five year old console is outselling the xbox 360....the consoles name is gamecube"

And to this quote..The gamecube is around $100 the 360 is around $400, there are millions of gamecubes for sale and you are lucky to even see a 360 for sale (tho resently they are becoming more instock) There were prolly more gamecubes sold than there are 360s even produced. And plus for younger kids or less fortunate parents are definately get them a gamecube if their kid wants a console due to price.

What are the purchase rates for gamecube compared to the xbox and ps2?