Ever since the SNES, Nintendo has changed the name of their home systems.  They went from SNES to Nintendo 64 to Gamecube to Wii.  Based on this, why the heck is "Wii 2" being used as the name for the next Nintendo system?  Actually has Nintendo with ANY of their systems did what Sony did with the Playstation brand, and go PS2, PS3?

Well, GameBoy > GameBoy Advance. DS > 3DS and NES > SNES kinda signals that they do it from time to time...

Wii is now a huge name on the market in both hardware and software. Nintendo would be kinda silly to drop the name straight away, especially when SuperWii sounds so good.

No one knows what Nintendo is going to call the Wii successor so they just use Wii2 as a place holder until more info is known.

Because most people can't be arsed to come up with something else... I thought this was common knowledge.

Because no one has a clue what it'll be called and we have to call it something until we know, so Wii2,WiiHD or SuperWii it is.

What about "Poo"

Seems like the natural number 2 to a Wii

YES!  The Wii II... It can be called the Wiiii.

Well, Gameboy was huge to as a brand, then they decided to go DS.  It doesn't seem to matter with Nintendo.  Heck, maybe Nintendo does decide to end up, for the first time ever, to go with Playstation style numbering.  I think part of the reason why they don't do this, is they like to have it in people's minds that the name of the system will change, with the name of the company, Nintendo, being the constant.  It isn't just the Wii, it is the Nintendo Wii.  Same thing with other systems they release now.  This even goes back to the NES days.  Everyone called their system a Nintendo, if not NES.  It was Nintendo, Super Nintendo, etc...

Nintendo fans have been using the quite neutral monicker of "N6," Nintendo's 6th console. That's the more accepted placeholder for now

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