It's kind of funny how the whole Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64 naming convention is there and then the one system where they actually change it up is the Gamecube. (which friends and I nicknamed Lunchbox, I could debate it being a cooler name I dunno.) but now we're going back to that same kind of "hey this works" naming convention with the Wii and Wii U, and how ever many DS names there have been. 
 
You kind of have to either give sony props or be bored by the fact that They flat out call their system the Playstation. It makes it at least literally sound like a gaming system, but the direction they seem to be heading with their console, the next one ought to be called "MediaStation". Turbografx-16 was cool at the time, because it came out when everything was 8bit so they wanted you to know that in such a cool way (right?) The commodore 64, could have easily just been the Commodore but I guess they really wanted to point out how much memory the thing could hold.
 
I like how Atari named their consoles after animals. Things like Intellivision and Odyssey just really sound like they're part of that 70s era, I mean like they were only given those names because they sounded so groovy or something.
 
For some of these, why they came up with the names seems kind of neat, You can't really say that these names suck, becuase they're Game consoles, so they need to come off that way! Sure some may be trying to impress you, but others I'm sure are just trying to invoke what their system is all about.
 
...I hope I'm adding to this conversations fun a little, but I feel like I'm trying to give a history lesson.

Huh? Most of those names suck. Hell, most video game console names suck. Playstation sounds exactly like the fake name that bad TV shows make up when they make fictional video games ("Oh, you got the new Kill Blaster 9 for the Playstation? FUCKING AWESOME, BRO!"), and Super Nintendo Entertainment System has to be the most stereotypically-named console ever. Why not just throw "super happy fun time" at the end? Genesis and Saturn are cool, though, as is Odyssey, upon reflection.

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Oh, I can be very stubborn.  Tomorrow's attempt to distance myself from E3 2011 as far as possible: A list of consoles with awesome names.