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Everyone else "Yay they gave us exactly what we wanted, and a nice normal name too!" soypoint-2

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they didn't do an Xbox and call it something confusing, but I was hoping this console could have it's own identity.

I'm happy for a more powerful Switch, it sounds neat. Still, I kinda was hoping for something more... Nintendo weird.

~~Okay maybe I'm just mad because I was hoping after the Nintendo Switch that we'd be getting a Nintendo Dom and a Nintendo Sub~~

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

It comes with a Nintendo PeggingU.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Nintendo SWiiUtch sicko-wistful

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Am I the only one who thinks the Super Switch would’ve been a fun name and a nice callback to Nintendo’s past? Like, I don’t understand why they didn’t do that with the Wii U either (Wii and Super Wii sounds so cute).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Super Switch sounds a lot more on brand for Nintendo, Switch 2 makes it sound like they're trying to make this look like a new PlayStation. They should have hired you to do their marketing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i'm still waiting for the nintendo 65

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

gamecube was nintendo 65

wii was nintendo 66

wii u nintendo 67

switch was nintendo 68

which would make the switch the... the... nintendo sixt- 💥🔫 volcel-judge

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Now that I think about it, the Joy-Cons are basically inverted versions of each other, so...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It’s called Switch 2 because when you see it you turn 2π radians and moonwalk away

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

That's a deep cut of online gamer humor

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

name is mid, but eh wii u flop spooked them. not that surprised, nobody has misunderstood a ps3 for a ps2 addon.

though I do wonder how much of the wii u flop was less the name and more, it was just kind of uninteresting? personally, the wii u came out when I was in my mid teens and moving away from consoles to PC and was very much uninterested in the wii u so that could be clouding things for me, but I do not know a lot of gamers even who got a wii u and they were not confused about the name

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

wiiu was a complete mess because nintendo didn't really knew what to do with it. it tried to market it for freeze-gamer (i remember there were conferences where the highlight was fifa or some "grown up" game) while trying to keep it's usual family friendly userbase. it tried to move away from motion controlls (again, trying to appease gamers) while also having a very interactive gamepad without many games using its features. even the most popular games failed to sell the console so nintendo decided that they will try to slowly delete its existance from collective memory and re-released almost all the games for the switch.

i don't doubt the name problem was real, but i also read of things like this on the ps1/ps2 transition so i doubt it was as bad as many make it sound.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

see this is what I was thinking. the gamepad was kind of clunky for one, I don't want a whole ass tablet to play some features. did some kids have to vie with parental interests for video game time vs tv time? yeah, but also most kids have a tv in their room, I always did growing up as did my friends. so then one asks ok why I am I paying like £250 for a meh line of launch titles, and a gimmic I don't want. it also did not entice the casual market as you said; though I imagine they considered with the rise of mobile gaming that tablets would be a safe bet with the casual market, it just failed.

the name just feels like an easy out. we had the nintendo DS, nintendo DS lite, DSi, DSi XL ect and each of these itterations sold pretty well, with not so clear naming schemes. because people wanted a DS

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

switch to what? I'm confused. I think I'll just get a steamdeck.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Switch 2 the polls planet-hillary

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm still calling it the Switch U.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm calling it the Switch Me

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

They didn't want people making the "Well if the Switch is so good, why isn't there a Switch 2?" jokes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Posted "Nintendo Switch 2 such a bad name" on a lemmy.world community and got downvoted.

To me the name should be Super Nintendo Switch or SNS like the SNES

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I would have called it the Switch Army Knife.

JK I would have called it the Nintendo Power

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

lotta, like, parents and other people on the periphery of gaming industry thought the WiiU was just an extra tablet you connected to your old Wii. Probably the sound decision here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One time my mate's house got burgled and they stole the WiiU controller but not the actual WiiU.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

In Japanese, 2 is pronounced "ni"

So it would've been the Wii Ni

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I thought that WiiU was the sound an ambulance makes

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

My discords are split between zoomers who are extremely angry that the Switch 2 will not bring them back to playing Picto Chat in middle school, old farts who will wait until it goes on sale, and even older farts who are excited about it because they have kids who can play games on it.

I kinda was hoping for something more... Nintendo weird.

I would've liked that too, but didn't expect it. One thing that snuck in though is that the new joycons can be used as mice. I bet Shiggy has something dumb planned with that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

wait until it goes on sale

Idk about where y'all live, but where I live, their consoles never go on sale

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait until the New Switch 2 comes out and get a secondhand Switch 2

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

nintendo mouse

If they do Mario Paint 2 I will purchase day one stg

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm still waiting on the GameCast 2

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Stop combining things I love or I'll get sad they don't exist

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'm proposing "Nintendo Switch & Knuckles"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

After the Wii U they probably don't want to risk it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

im thinking "super switch" would've worked better but the acronym isn't exactly ideal

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Super Switch

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

First time Nintendo has ever called a piece of hardware the whatever 2, isn't it?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I wanted the SwitchU so they wouldn't sell any again

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

:kelly: Bait and switch.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

they probably didnt want to confuse people since they were keeping the name Switch, plus It seems nintento learned that they had such a hit with the hybrid console idea that their next consoles will just be more upgrated nintendos Switchs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I'm still calling it the Swiitch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Lilo and switch

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Swatch was taken

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So there's going to be a giant 2 on the dock and controller grip? Hm.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Numba two hehehe 💩

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Not sure what to think of the magnetic lock on the controllers. That side port they plug into looks way more fragile than however the fuck the rails worked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

if Nintendo changes how their controllers are attached it is most certainly because they figured out a way to make the connection MORE secure, not less

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