heres the real problem
they called it WiiU.
Think of past naming conventions and the reasons behind them
PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, all selling well.
PSP, PSP 2000, PSP 3000, PSP 4000all selling well
PSP Go, sold craply
PS Vita, sold poorly
Xbox, new product, sold alright considering
Xbox 360, sold very well
Xbox one, so-so.
NES > Super NES, logical changes, sold well
N64 - sold decently, released in an era of 32bit consoles, 64bit touted as a selling point
Gamecube, sold poorly.
Wii, sold extremely well
Wii U, selling poorly, half the people that bought a Wii didn't even realize it was a new console
Gameboy, sold well everyone knew it was greenscale colors
Gameboy color, ooo now it has color? sold well
Gameboy advance, oo an advanced gameboy?, sold well
DS, its like a game boy with TWO screens!, sold very well
3DS, its like a Ds, but does glasses free 3D! sold very well
making the actual console portion itself look so similar to the original wii just "rounded off" did them no favors either, it just reinforced the assumption that the wiiu was an expensive consoller with a screen for the wii
Had they even just used 2 instead of U, it would have been more popular.
