What you smoking?

The thing about numbering, while it is kind of boring, people know where they stand. PS4 is newer and more advanced than PS3 because it has a 4 in it. And it's the most advanced because there is no PS5. And they know it's the home console because PS3 was a home console.

Playstation is also the best name over all. Wii has no meaning and sounds and looks silly. Xbox also has no meaning and sounds too serious. Playstation is the place where you play and that means fun times. It's the best name ever invented for a game console. Sticking a U behind it may have reduced sales a bit but it would still be selling a lot better than Xb one and better than Wii (?). Obviously if Sony used the U it means Nintendo would have gone for something much more sensible like Wii 2.

No, it would fail. Because the acronym would be PSU so everyone would think they were buying a powersupply for a desktop.











JK

I don't think it would sell better or worse. I also don't think Nintendo would been that much better with a different name. It wouldn't be that significant since that name is being catered to attact casuals who likely would still be satisfied with their Wii and since their attach ratio was extremely low, they wouldn't go out and buy a whole new system if they are barely even buying games for their current one. Sony was going to sell regardless and 400 was a huge difference from the PS3's 600 price tag. I think Sony would have done great regardless. Microsoft's stubbles I believe also helped the Playstation brand.

The Wii U name is like it being named Playstation 3 U

If the PS2 was called PlayStation U it wouldn't have done as well.

I'm high on life