The Wii has too be the most stupidest name for a console ever but it works. It works because any immigrant parent (no disrespect to them) can say it and its a hell of alot easier to say than "XBOX THREE SIXTY" or " PLAYSTATION THREE" and because its hard to say they will buy what they can say , "wiiii".

So for the reason of the sheer simplicity of the word will sony or microsoft go in this direction?

The J man misses when it was called revolution....

J-Man that whole first paragraph was really racist - if not racist then at the very least xenophobic

You should change it

Yup.

 The J man parents are immigrants and they cant say ps3 or 360. The J man cant word it anyway else and doesnt mean to be offensive to others.

The Pii is the next name for Sony.

See that changes thing

You might want to mention in the first paragraph that it's your parents specifically, because it's less "oh man that's kind of awkward" and more "hahaha that wacky J-Man, he knows what's up"

Only four syllable names are good. So sony is good all the way to PS9 with the exception of PS7.

You think Nintendo based a worldwide brand name based on what a few American immigrant can or can't say?

Wii worked because the name implies togetherness (and urine), and because the two "i"'s look like abstract representations of people. The name simply summarized their philosophy for the console.

Now, I'll admit PlayStation is a very early 90s name, and XBox very late 90s attempt to sound cool. Both could probably use a new name, but they've simply sunk too much into the branding. They can't just drop their old names the way Nintendo can. Nintendo is "brand", so they can change the console names all they want. Sony and Microsoft's names are too tied up in other properties to be used for console branding. That is, when asked "did you get the new Nintendo?" everyone knows what it means. But asking"did you get the new Sony?" it could mean a tv, receiver, computer, console, etc.

I hope not...

There's nothing wrong with the first paragraph.  He's not being disrespectful there, he's just saying XBOX 360 is difficult to say for some people, Wii isn't.

Calling that racist is like calling me racist for saying Revolution is a bad name because it's hard for Japanese people to say it.