There are still many people who don't even know what it is.

Hes right though. Great system with great games,but a terrible name

The name is almost as bad as the XB1. They should've called it the Wii2.

U Ultra?

The entire 'Wii' name should have been dropped all together. When I hear it I automatically think 'casual'. Though that's just one of it's problems, another being the shitty marketing. I hadn't even heard of it until 5 months after it came out.

I agree but i got used to it eventually. Xbox One as a name isn't much better to be honest.

He's right in a way, it was a bad choice in the begining but now people are starting to know the name.

I didn't get a Wii U at first because i thought it was a new Wii "U Draw by THQ. A year later and i realise the Wii U is a new console i bought one straight away regardless of the name

The name isn't the best ever. Something like Wii2 or WiiTwo or WiiToo would have been better. Emphasize the fact that it is the successor more. But to say the name is the biggest problem is nuts. To think the name "...cut sales in half..." is just wrong.

Nintendo just did a poor job of marketing it, showing the benefits of the new controller, and creating a killer app for the new controller.

At least they could name simply "U", not Wii U, just U.

Yeah I think anything with the name "Wii" was pretty much set to fail. Super Wii, Wii 2, whatever, they are better names than Wii U, but it's not like Wii U would suddenly start selling double the units with a name change.

"Wii" had lost most of its brand luster by the end of 2010 really, it had become synonymous with shovelware + an outdated craze that had fizzled out. The excitement and optimism of the early Wii day (imagine a lightsaber game with this controller! lol) had long since faded into either annoyance/mild hostility from core gamers or indifference from "blue ocean" consumers jumping on the last Apple bandwagon leaving town.