I still don't like the name, but I admit that it did its job admirably.

I'm too much of an anglophile to not say "It's on the Wii" without thinking of how this is violating laws of the English language.

Protip: It's called the Wii. Not the Nintendo Wii.

It's the first Nintendo console not to include Nintendo in it's name.

I was cheering on how brilliant it was as soon as I heard the name.
They even explained clearly why they had chosen this name, and it was even more brilliant after reading their explanation.
Of course, I was drowned under the noise of lots of simpletons that couldn't even understand the simple explanation by Nintendo.
I always said it was brilliant, and couldn't understand how people could be so stupid to think this was a bad name. That was another of these times where I felt the strong wave of hate towards Nintendo. The first true one was when they revealed the controller (which wasn't called wiimote at the time). The hate was just unbelievable when they revealed it.
I still think today that the hate of the name Wii was a try to validate the hate for the controller.
I am also convinced that all the hate we see nowadays is from the same people, people who know very well that if Nintendo had relied on them to make the Wii a success, it would have been a failure, because none of them would have bought it.
Now they complain because Nintendo was smart enough to rely on their new market, and the war of attrition that the haters had prepared to destroy Nintendo's console not only failed, but now is working against them.
The haters reaped what they sowed (is that correctly spelled?).

The same thing is happening with 3rd parties because they used the same tactics.
Nearly all of them haters are being destroyed.

There are some left, like reviewers (gaming press), who use the same tactics too. They are starting to be destroyed too. There are glaring examples like GTA4. And like for the rest, Nintendo had a weapon (or is it a shield?) against them: now they're giving informations on their games on a small time frame before the release. This gives less time for the gaming press to derail their games. Although they already look like fools related to Nintendo and how they rate the games on its console, the gaming press has not taken a good enough beating yet. Just look at the recurrent "Nintendo hate periods" in the gaming press to convince yourself of that.

That's nonsense. That would mean sth only if NA was the only place where Nintendo released home consoles, but it's not.

Famicom, Super Famicom didn't have Nintendo in their name at all. I doubt Gamecube had Nintendo in its name too.

Actually, it's not clear for Gamecube, as Nintendo is written above Gamecube on games, but in a faded font, to differentiate from the system name. So my take is that it was not part of the name. Depends on interpretation I guess.

The Japanese got it. You think American didn't get it?

Also, maybe Nintendo can see into the future...

After all, if you replace one letter in wii with an 'n' you get....'win'!!!

It is genius... I was one of the few who liked it in the first place (Well I was aghast for a minute or two but then I liked it)

It is basically on a whole different plane to previous console names.

If I were to put a group of console names in ranking order with points (100 being best, 1 being worst)

95 - Genesis
92 - Dreamcast
85 - Famicom
84 - Saturn
80 - Super Famicom
73 - Master System
70 - Nintendo Entertainment System
60 - Super Nintendo Entertainment System
49 - GameCube
47 - PlayStation
46 - MegaDrive
40 - Nintendo64
25 - Xbox 360
15 - Xbox

Xbox is just horrible, though at least they improved it with a "360" instead of just a numeric addition (which is why "playstation" is all as one thing, they only have 1 name between them)
GC, MD and PS are all middle of the road names which just combine two words... Famicom uses the same principle but works a lot better IMO (perhaps because it is pronounced as one word)
Sega have had the best overall line up of names, they are less descriptive of the actual console and sound more like code names (incidentally, "Revolution" would have got about 90 points on this scale, "Dolphin" perhaps 75 points)

Like I said, Wii is on another level.... It would probably be around 150 on this scale for pure genius.
The name "Wii" combined with the concepts behind Wii Sports and Mii's are major factors for the Wii's desirability (and the controller of course)

I considered the name Wii to be genius from the day it was announced, and I knew that their system would do much better than the GC. I still didn't see this asswhooping coming from them, though, since I sorta thought that it'd be running neck-and-neck with the PS3 and both outpaced by PS2.

 +1

I thought that it would never surpass GC. Now I am waiting for the negative sales to kick in.