On Wii

So, today Nintendo revealed the actual name of their upcoming console - Wii! As in "wee." Everyone else who has commented on the title has seen fit to provide the related pronounciation by listing the English slang word we used as 7-year olds to describe the process of urinating. I suppose I had to do that to keep in their great company.

Seriously, I have, in the past twenty minutes since discovering this news, read about five blogs or news articles written by or quoting a dozen or more jackasses who are analyzing why Wii is a bad name and why Nintendo will fail.

And they're all wrong.

GameCube was a stupid name. It took a broad idea (gaming) and put it into a shape (cube) - the shape of the system. It was very childish and I hated it. As a matter of fact, I'm still bitter at Nintendo for their support of the system. The GameCube never really hit its full potential - being either a truly wonderous Zelda game or any kind of lasting party game in the same vein as GoldenEye for the Nintendo 64. But I owned a GameCube.

And I will own a Wii.

And so will you, your cousins and your friends. Why? Because the console's concept is innovative, even if the name strikes you as childish, stupid, cryptic or ... well, revolutionary.

I like it because it's simple. "Wii." Say it ... say it out loud. Go on. "Wii." One syllable, three letters. It's what we were gonna convert any other console name to - NES, SNES, N64, GC, PS, PSX, PS2, XBox. Wii. It's already there! See?

So stop detailing the failings of Nintendo's marketing strategies and start harrassing them for not releasing any details about the actual console or release dates or launch titles. Dammit, we know the name and we've seen the controller ... show us the rest already!