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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] 36 points 2 months 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] 11 points 2 months 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] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

That's a deep cut of online gamer humor

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months 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] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Switch 2 the polls planet-hillary

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months 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] 14 points 2 months ago

I thought that WiiU was the sound an ambulance makes

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah. True. At least they're more creative with naming than Sony lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

In Japanese, 2 is pronounced "ni"

So it would've been the Wii Ni

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I’m learning there was a WiiU today. Oh I was really busy 2012 that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I unironically think the mouse functionality will make this their most creative game library yet (if only because lots of games can safely include a creative mode with controls that don't suck)

but overall I think Nintendo is past making "weird" consoles since the launch of the first switch, the joycons have let them do the big weird stuff in individual games instead (LABO, Ring Fit) and now the joycons have even more functions. weird is coming even if the console seems standard

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Actually, true. I'll give you that.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We've had:

-super whatever

-whatever advance

-3whatever

-whatever u

-whatever color

-whatever pocket

-whatever light

-whatever sp

but never whatever 2

come to think of it, I don't think they've ever reused any of their "the next version of whatever" terms, each of those is unique

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My favourite dumb name is the

-New 3whatever XL

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

i forgot about "new whatever" that shit made my craigslist search for a used one really annoying. I do think the new 2ds xl is the ideal form of the 3ds generation, but it's such a stupid name.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

:kelly: Bait and switch.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months 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] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i'm still waiting for the nintendo 65

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months 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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm calling it the Switch Me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Swatch was taken

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months 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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months 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 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

From what I understand, magnets will last longer than any other part of the console. It might be a good choice.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Numba two hehehe 💩

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I'm still calling it the Swiitch

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Look, if Nintendo didn't want to make a system called Nintendo Dom, why did they make Bowser so horny berdly-smug

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm still waiting on the GameCast 2

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Nintendo SWiiUtch sicko-wistful

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm proposing "Nintendo Switch & Knuckles"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Super Switch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Trailer is kinda meh, it's all about the titles

I'm gonna buy one anyway my kid is going to be in my ear about it. Better start saving up this thing is gonna be expensive

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