First off: The name was really confusing. When I first saw the wii u I thought it was just a gamepad add on and I think that is why alot of people havent bought it yet. If it was called Nintendo HD and designed to look like the nes but more modern or just called it Nintendo Hd and had the same design as the wii u, I think it would have sold more. I still see people go out to gamestop and return a wii u game and say the game doesnt work on the wii. This just shows that the marketing was terrible. I really did not see any marketing on television exept for mario kart. If nintendo had foucused on telling us this would be able to play HD games and a little less on gamepad, also having a different name, I think nintendo should have been 10m+ by now.( Plus, the launch was not that good. I mean it had NSMBU, but if it had 3d world or Mario kart people would have bought it more) I think nintendo is trying to atract their casuals, and it just totally confused the casuals because it was marketed wrong. Also, casuals don't watch E3 and stuff, so they had no idea about the wii u until the release date. Hell I saw some people commenting on other sites saying that when they told there friends that there was a wii u (this was in MK8 release) there friends had not known until then. Bad marketing=bad start. Sure, they have gotten slightly better boost, but its nothing compared to what would it have been if it were called something different, or better marketing.

What do you think? And if you agree with the different name, what would your different name have been?

WiiU is the worst name ever for a console, so yes, I agree.

Ka-pi96 said: Wii U is a pretty poor name. They shouldn't have kept the Wii name at all but if they absolutely had to what was wrong with the Wii 2. Definitely should have done better marketing as well. Sure these things would have helped, but I'm not sure they would have helped a huge amount. No way to ever find out though so..

Exactly. I think they really shot themselves in the foot there. They should have just released the damn thing as the Wii 2 with Wii Sports 2 and sat back and watched the money come in.

Definitely yes for both!

But neither would that have solved the underlying problem; lack of system sellers and poorly positioned hardware/Unique selling point

I wouldn't really call the Wii U a bad name... but at the same time it is. If there was no Wii then the name would be fine but the fact that the Wii existed, made the name Wii U bad. Nintendo wanted to try and use the Wii name again thinking that it would have a surge of sales just like the Wii did but it obviously failed.

Wii 2 or Super Wii would have been much better choices for names.They would have kept the brand recognition and made it clear it was a successor to the Wii.

Wii 2... with this name Wii U have sold 80K+ in all week of 2013.

I would have called it "Wii Wii""

Wii 2 might have done a bit better, but it wouldn't have changed the console's fate.

When it was revealed there was quite the positive reaction from gamers. Just spend some time reading some older threads about it and you'll know what I'm talking about. Almost everyone, including xb and ps fans, said they were planning on buying one.

Things were looking great for it until the doom started. Then suddenly everyone started backpedaling saying how the name was terrible, the controller was unncessary, the hardware mattered etc. Then projects were being cancelled, 3rd parties dropped support, delayed games, etc. It's like a snowball effect.

But any successor of the wii had little to no chance at being truly successful. Ninty consoles after ps1 launched stopped doing well and Ninty got lucky with wii because it had something innovative. That's the reason I and many others bought the console. But soon you realize that motion controls don't work that well, that it gets tiring and tiresome using them and you see no point spending money again for a similar console. As many pointed out for years, Ninty ip's don't sell as many consoles as people think.

The best thing Ninty could have done would be to come up with a new name that had nothing to do with wii, since wii would remind parents and gamers of motion controls that are not worth it after a few months. Of course, this is a generalization but that's the impression I got from every single person I've known in real life who owned a wii. They bought the console and then stopped using it after the novelty wore off. Ninty should have distanced itself from the brand and come up with something different and exciting. An "N-pad" that works as a home console and a tablet would have done amazing, the way i see it.

People saying wii 2 would've been better are crazy. Wii 2 is just as bad. Should've dropped the wii name altogether and went back to the nintendo naming scheme. Not only that but a wii sports 2 would not have done anything for the wii u at least not nearly as much as the original wii sports. That game was in the right place in the right time with the right tech.