How so? The name seems to work well. The Wii hardware was a huge marketing success for Nintendo in every way, expanding the market into previously untapped areas and hugely outselling all of their competitors. The system name is short, simple, original, easy to remember, and is a basic exclamation of joy. It doesn’t follow older naming structures such as combining words that are synonyms for playing games and a box (x-box, playstation, gamecube) or naming it after the company that makes it (NES, SMS, NeoGeo), and it’s not a nonsensical name considering what the product does (Jaguar, Dreamcast).

All in all I think the product name was a well planned and excellent decision on Nintendo’s part and contributed, at least partially, to the high and continued success of the system.

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As for the Wii, money’s been tight this year so far, but prior to that I think I managed to buy every worthwhile game on the system If you have friends, my number one recomendation is Mario Party 8. We always seem to be playing that, so much so we’ve worn it out after two years and need a number 9 already. Raging Rabbits TV Party is fun too, but it gets old a bit fast I think, more of a budget title IMO, but worth buying once you get bored of Mario Party. I also love Samba De Amigo. And of course there’s Smash Bros, but I have issues getting people to play it with me, and it isn’t that huge a leap from Melee, just more stuff added in. For two-player fun Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (if you have the guns) is lots of fun and so is the Konami soccer game, can’t remember the name.

Pretty much everything from Nintendo kicks ass. Mario Soccer is another one I’d recommend as a huge step up from its Gamecube counterpart. Not so much on Mario Baseball though, which just feels like they added motion controls to the gamecube game. The gamecube game was good, the motion controls work, but the game isn’t better or worse for them, just different, and I wouldn’t complain if it were a budget title like Mario Tennis with the tacked on motion controls, but it isn’t.

Also for one player fun Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition is one of my all time favorite games. Pointing and shooting is just so much fun. Also No More Heroes, despite mixed reviews, blows you away with moments of pure coolness. I did get Chocobo’s Dungeon a bit ago, but haven’t had time to play it, but I do like the Magic Dungeon games, I fell in love with Torneko on my PSX. They’re rougesque, but they took a turned based method as opposed to Diablo’s real time. If you’re thinking about a game and want to know about it, let me know. If I don’t have it, I’ve probably at least heard about it.

PS – You still have the old page up at Icharus Flew. You might want to take that down or redirect as it no longer updates. Also it has this darker look to it and every time I see it I assume you’re dead (not that there’s anything wrong with that).