Its probably the worst name ever for a console, yes.

The name is terrible... To this day I know a ton of people (who own a Wii, presumably part of the audience the Wii U was going for, hence the name) who still believe the Wii U is a tablet add-on like the U-Draw tablet for the Wii... Who ever thought the Wii U was a good name when making it is a fucking idiot. That being said, Nintendo didnt even try that hard to change that perception to the casual audience; there's only 1 Wii U commercial Ive seen (Tropical Freeze I think) where a kid says the Wii U is a new system :p

Of course it is, the Wii had "filthy casual" smeared all over it, continuing the legacy with the name was not a good idea.

It's sad because the Wii U is almost the opposite of the Wii. The Wii had tons of crappy, casual party games from third parties, the Wii U just has a lot of insanely good first party titles from Nintendo meant to appease the hardcore Nintendo gamer.

While the name is terrible, it isn't the Wii U's only problem as many other have stated.

Eh...I'm not sure I really agree with him. Xbox One and PS4 aren't really creative either. I wish the companies would come up with entirely new names for each console.

I agree, it's even worse than "ps vita" and "xbox one".

Would have preferred then going back to calling it Entertainment system.

Nintendo U entertaiment system, NUES.

But name is mere one of over dozen big issues.

Couldn't they just change the name to Wii Ultra

Despite this ... Wii U sales are better than Xbox One sales. But Xbox One is a console with a cool name, many Third Party games and big marketing budget.

By the way: I love the gamepad. Its one of the things I never thought I need until I tried it.

No and yes. Name: Yes, Price: ....maybe Lack of games Definete no, Lack of advertising: Yes... last year, no  this year, Lack of general appel: while that is opinion based I am going to say generally, no.