Originally posted by: whitehaven
Important thing to note is how 'revolution' would be pronounced in japan, nintendos main market.
Reality is, it can't BE pronounced.
The closest a japanese person can get to it would be 'Lebolrution'.

Just because the name "revolution" can't be pronounced in Japanese doesn't mean that they couldn't still call it that here in the states and/or Europe, and Wii in Japan/East Asia. It wouldn't be the first time that consoles had different names in different markets. Remember Famicom/NES, Super Famicom/Super NES, and PC Engine/Turbo Graphix 16? OK, the last one wasn't a Nintendo product, but still, you could come up with an alternate name that sounds good outside of Japan. Even if Japan is the main market, the US/European markets aren't peanuts.

Besides the stupid name, I do like the innovativeness of the console, and am hoping that it does well.