"Nintendo Switch" should be Nintendo's official game platform brand

[Barkley]

RolStoppable said:

zorg1000 said:

To be fair things like Pocket, Color, Advance, Super describe what is different unlike U.

Pocket=smaller

Color=not black and white

Advance/Super=more power

U=?????

The "i" in DSi didn't describe anything, but that wasn't a problem for sales. "SP" for the GBA was similarly obscure.

It's much less about the name as it is about people caring. The name can be pretty random and it doesn't matter because consoles aren't overly complicated devices that require research beyond a few minutes.

People could inform themselves about the Wii U and it didn't take long for them to conclude that the console sucks. That's what did the Wii U in, not its name. A parallel can be drawn to the PlayStation Vita, but it's a lot less prevalent that somebody mentions its name as a reason why it failed.

I think the "i" is an "eye": the camera. At least that's how I always took the name.

But I agree with your point,  the name isn't overly important and wasn't really a factor in the WiiU's demise.