I was fine with the name from day one basically.

I knew "Revolution" wouldn't really catch on to any new people...it'd just be the Gamecube audience all over again. At least "Wii" got people talking.

Wii works better and it's easy to make series of titles like "Wii Sports", "Wii Golf" etc. Not that easy with Revolution.

They did Pokemon Battle: Revolution...but yeah...it wouldn't sound good all the time.

I think the pronunciations thing may have been a consideration for the japanese actually, it would have been hard for them to get used to saying it. The other point i heard from nintendo was they didnt want a name that could be shortened and therefore lose its meaning and revolution would have been instantly called the rev.

I have to admit i was shocked when it was called the Wii, i already thought the whole remote concept would have a hard time being accepted by the general public and calling it Wee could have made the whole situation worse.

There is a point that few people seem to have noticed, Nintendo have marketed the machine so that people don't just call it "the wii", its often called "the nintendo wii", i think this is very good to connect the manufacturer with the product and therefore any future products will have instant recognition.

Does anyone else keep typing double i's after a W now, i keep typing wiith!

Also if it wasnt Wii it wouldnt be Mii.

Simply the name " Revolution " may sound cool but betrays Nintendo's revolution .

Wii is a fantastic name from a marketing point of view. 

I thought just that too :P Either way, Revolution was just the code-name. 

To the brittish it might have sounded like that when they first heard it, but to the scottish it's "a bonnie wee!"

When I heard the name "Wii" I thought it was extremely stupid, and I didn't think I'd get used to it. I got used to it pretty quickly, and now I think it's great! It's also a perfect match for the console.

And Rath is right, the backlash about the name did spread out the word about the console!

Both seem fine enough to me; I'd love them to name it errrrr... Trauma or... Stiles or something.

i didn't make the list on the basis of what was "cool" at the time otherwise x-box would be higher up because late 90s early 00s everything had to have an X or a Z in it, or certain letters written backwards.....If you have seen homestarrunner think of the fake band Limozeen.

Mega may have been a popular word at the time but i don't think it lasts as well, certainly not as good as Genesis.

It's annoying that most of the names are just combining two existing words; mega-drive/fami(ly) - com(puter) Dream-cast is easily the best of the combo names, it's something that sounds nice when you say it (like cellar door)
i would actually put a line under MegaDrive though to signify where the great names stop and the mediocre names begin....and a further line under N64 because the names under that are not good at all (not bad, but below mediocre)