What?
Anyone who's not so much interested in game consoles and is looking into getting into game consoles, which can be pretty expensive, are going to go into it with caution, and that means not just buy something because of its name. Second of all, a bad name and less profits will cause less third party games? Nintendo doesn't pay for third party games unless they collaborate on games, otherwise it's mostly the third parties paying for the license. No matter if Nintendo has hardly any money will not change the third party stance with them.
Also, who in this generation who isn't a teen at the time, hasn't been interested in gaming? Most are nowadays, and mostly the ones who aren't are older, or younger. Nintendo knows this and that's exactly who they're trying to grab in and that's exactly what the name represents. A mother looking for a game her and her daughter can play with, costing upwards to $300+ isn't going to say "wow, what a stupid name, I'd rather buy this more expensive cooler named Xbox 360" half the time the people not interested in consoles can't even bother to remember names. She's going to ask the clerk about something that her and her daughter can play together, read reviews online that aren't caught-up over a name, and actually find out about the console itself. Nintendo knows this, they know the audience they're trying to capture, and they care more about bringing other age groups into gaming than the other consoles. They've proven they'd rather risk stumping sales to pull in other age groups than overall please the current gamers by making their console less powerful.
This happens every single time a simple change to something that doesn't effect the main point at all happens. Everyone goes haywire over something that means nothing. It was the same with The Wind Waker, people just look into the aesthetics way too much. Most who ever buy a console never refer to the console name ever again, so why does it matter?
And like it's been mentioned before, does everyone go around laughing at French speakers because not only does how they say yes sound like we, they say it twice. The inhumanity! It reminds me of that episode of Family Guy where he starts laughing in French class, because we all know Peter is a good example of being immature.