So much silliness in this thread, I love it.

To be the wet blanket, no, Nintendo did the right thing because they learned their lesson from Wii U, and to a lesser extent from the New 3DS

It's not about the players, it's about who buys it, and the ones who buy it are parents and adults who aren't always up to date on gaming news.

PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5. That makes sense, you want the latest one? Buy the bigger number.

Wii U? I already have a Wii at the house, the kids don't even use it. It's a tablet? They already have a tablet though.

New 3DS? I already got a DS and they tricked me into the 3DS! I don't even need the 3D feature, that was a waste of money. It's still pretty new, I don't need another new one.

I worked at GameStop all those releases and I can't emphasize just HOW MAY TIMES I had those conversations with customers. Not just parents either, but casual consumers.

Xbox was confusing too eventually.

Nobody got confused on Playstation.

The Nintendo Switch is a handheld device, so they should have called it Nintendo Switch Advanced

Then there's MS over here ruining decades of easily understood versioning and thinking that was a Good Move™.

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Fun side note, I've had more than one fun conversation where someone forgets to say "Nintendo" when asking about connecting a switch to my network (especially back when it was a new thing...)

Oh, that would have been sweet. Then the next Switch would be Switch 64. :D

>new<

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Probably didn't because (among, I'm sure, other reasons) the SNES was such a major upgrade over the NES that it would've drawn a negative comparison between the lesser difference of the Switch 2 versus the Switch. Younger audiences wouldn't get it/wouldn't care, and older audiences would see it as pandering/unwarranted.

Could also be that audiences were still wary of the whole Wii/Wii U debacle and just wanted reassurance that it'd be "more of the same but better".

And lastly, if they wanted a "Switch 3" in the future, it's been shown by Xbox that funny naming schemes can go awry after the second iteration.

No, it should have been The Switcheroo

I'm still bummed they didn't call the N64 any of the following:

Ultra Nintendo

Turbo Nintendo

Super Duper Nintendo

Super Switch Fighter II Turbo

New Super Nintendo Switch i 2ds XL Entertainment System

That would require them to be clever. They just keep making the same games over and over.

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