Nintendo have commented on their recent naming of their next-gen console. Previously codenamed Revolution, the newly named Nintendo Wii (thats "Wee" ) has puzzled many.

IGN Wii: Revolution seemed to be a pretty cool code-name that a lot of our readers liked. Why abandon it?

Perrin Kaplan: You know, I thought it was a neat name, too, but it's not as fitting for what we're trying to do. You think about Google being an unusual name. You think about Virgin Airlines. Amazon. Napster. All those. I think it's as unique as those. They aren't just unique, but loved names for places that we all know. And I think this is more fitting and the two Is work on a bunch of different levels. It looks like two people with heads who can play, which is the inclusive nature of everybody. It looks like the controllers. So for us it looked like a couple of different levels.

The full interview with Nintendo can be seen at IGN.


*** Update ***
There has been speculation that Nintendo isn't really going to call their new console, Wii. Is this all a publicity scam and just a joke? Well it's hard to believe but we won't have long to find out with E3 just round the corner.