I totally agree with you. I won't be getting one until it drops its price.
And I hate Sony for saying that Nintendo had stupid gimmicks. So what do they do? Steal Nintendo's gimmick. Hypocrite assholes.
So what if in some countries that "Wii" sounds like the word for piss, because that's exactly what this system is going to do to Xbox 360 and PS3 it's going to piss all over them in terms of sheer awesomeness compared to their suckitude in therms of what it can do and what their systems can't.
Other words that the name sounds like which are actually positives:
We = Stated by Nintendo as in "We all play together as a global community" - exactly what they are going for with this system.
Oui = French for yes - as in "Yes! Finally a truely awesome Nintendo system!"
Wee = Small - the system itself is actually only about the size of 3 DVD cases glued together so it's really not very big at all.
- See it all works