I swear to God I'm not going to do that again... much. But IGN sat down with Nintendo VP of corporate affairs Perrin Kaplan to ask the questions everyone has been asking themselves over the past 24 hours.

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.

Basically, she reiterates the idea that the name is meant to be unique and emphasize the system's simplicity and community (as opposed to the epic revolt conjured up by the Revolution). She compares it to the likes of Google and Napster, which I don't think are really the same thing at all, but she does bring up one other name I hadn't thought of: Virgin (as in Virgin Airlines, Virgin Mobile, etc). That's a better example, I'd say, as it shares Wii's innuendo problem, as well as not sounding like a very tough or cool name for a company -- especially one dealing with the young hipster cell phone crowd. And yet, it's become its own word in a way, without people breaking into sly smiles every time they say it. So while I still think an extra syllable or two wouldn't have hurt, Wii will most likely find its own place eventually and, at some distant date, there will come a time that we won't hear even one pee joke about it.

Link: IGN