I'll be furious if a New Wii U launches. It means that my Wii U is now worthless and the New Wii U will get exclusives I can't play on my Wii U.

.... I could have swore I had this conversation about the 3DS.

Not the only issue NoA and NoE have to deal with thanks to NoJ.
PlayStations biggest strength is that they act as an international company.

Honestly, the only great name in Nintendo's HISTORY for a console was the "Gameboy". Everything else has been dull and without imagination.

To be fair, the same is pretty much true for Sony and Microsoft, too.

Sega got it right with name front "Dreamcast", "Saturn".

Just goes to show how unimportant a good name is.

"new iPad", anyone?

I always wondered why they just didn't use a different name like they did back in the day. Famicom was NES. Super Famicom was the SNES. I'm thinking Reggie needs to flex in front of Boss Iwata and demand a different name.

Sorry Reggie, but i dont believe you. I think the japanese branch comes up with these dumb names and you just have to roll with them.

Perfect example of nintendos love for painting its problems as its advantages, this and the "we still dont like annual franchises" crap.

I feel the opposite, actually. If you listen to the early talks about the philosophy behind the console, the name makes sense. Wii was supposed to bring everyone together. The name was written in a way pronouncable in every language, the iis were people standing together, etc. The Wii U wanted to continue to draw people together, but also focus on the individual, hence the creation of miiverse, a refocusing (or so they promised) on the hardcore gamer, the gamepad allowing for asynchronous multiplayer giving a unique experience for a particular player (hence launching with Nintendo Land), and so they stuck with the English-pronoun-written-in-a-more-universally-pronounable-way naming pattern to reflect their new philosophy. It was a complex message to sell and their marketing team failed spectacularly. Did the name make things worse? Maybe, but you can't say they didn't put significant thought into it. Certainly more so than "it's a new model of the 3DS line so let's call it the New 3DS."

Glad I'm not the only one that remembers this. : )

No the naming is terrible. You might think about it, but it's still terrible.

Wii -> Wii U. Oh it has Wii in the name, but U? Oh it has a tablet. It's a peripheral.

3DS -> N3DS. Is it like DS -> 3DS? It plays 3DS games, but it doesn't have N3DS games...

They're not good, and trying to be "clever" and "deep" is just going to confuse consumers.

Well then Reggie.....think again.