Despite what side of the fence you sit on, I think we can all agree that the naming of the console confused the average consumer who some still probably believe that the game pad it is an add on for the Wii. If they would have named it Wii 2, I believe Nintendo would have at least 5-6 million more consoles sold at this point due to having a better ability to distinguish the fact that it was a new console.

This is why I believe Iwata needs to be let go. He should have had the common sense to understand this and relaunch the Wii U as Wii 2 at last years E3.

Now everyone got that it is a different console that is better. But most of the casual audience of the Wii don't think it's worth it to jump to the Wii U to play games they already have like Wii Party and Wii Fit.

No one was confused because Apple dumped hundreds of millions into advertising the difference (which they do quite efficiently), whereas Nintendo does not have that kind of capital to do so. Hence a system like the Wii U would have sold substantially better if it was simply branded Wii 2. The causal audience who purchased the Wii would have been able to distinguish the difference.

Yes because alot of people I know that are mainstreamers are not sure what WiiU is "is it a console? addon? accessoire?"

Most of the casual buyers of the Wii don't see it as a new console.
A lot of people who bought Wii for their kids won't buy Wii u
Because they think it's the same thing.
A parent would say to his child - you want Wii U?! but you already have a Wii! :)
Nintendo could have sold do much more with a better name for the console.

Yes.

Wii HD. Or Wii 2. Or Super Wii.

That's incorrect. Poor marketing and naming of the console is why the casuals have not jumped on the bandwagon. By no means would the Wii U (if named Wii 2) could have sold to the extent of the Wii, but as I've reiterated over and over again, had they simply named it Wii 2, you would have seen a substantially higher casual userbase and at 11-12 million units would have been sold instead of 6.

I disagree. Poor marketing and naming of the console confused casual. But now they know, yet, not much worth it. Why ? Well Gamepad is badly exploited for these, and HD graphics for simple looking games doesn't matter.

Probably not. Even Wii 2 wouldn't have made an impact in sales.

Now if the hardware was more on the level of PS4/XB1 and Nintendo didn't focus it's entire pre-launch marketing campaign exclusively on the tablet controller that mainstream consumers thought was just an add-on to the Wii, then yeah the system would have sold much better.

Yes, the name was a complete distraction. Casual gamers and more importantly parents, see this like iphone 5 to 5s, and upgrade but is it really necessary? Nintendo should have given it a new name with the full concept and throw in there backwards compatibility as one of the selling points.