Me "Wow, Switch 2 is such a safe and uncreative name"
Me "Wow, Switch 2 is such a safe and uncreative name"
Everyone else "Yay they gave us exactly what we wanted, and a nice normal name too!" 
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
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).
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
It’s called Switch 2 because when you see it you turn 2π radians and moonwalk away
That's a deep cut of online gamer humor
lmaoll
switch to what? I'm confused. I think I'll just get a steamdeck.
Switch 2 the polls
They didn't want people making the "Well if the Switch is so good, why isn't there a Switch 2?" jokes.
i'm still waiting for the nintendo 65
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- 💥🔫
Now that I think about it, the Joy-Cons are basically inverted versions of each other, so...
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.
One time my mate's house got burgled and they stole the WiiU controller but not the actual WiiU.
I thought that WiiU was the sound an ambulance makes
In Japanese, 2 is pronounced "ni"
So it would've been the Wii Ni
Yeah. True. At least they're more creative with naming than Sony lol
I’m learning there was a WiiU today. Oh I was really busy 2012 that makes sense.
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.
nintendo mouse
If they do Mario Paint 2 I will purchase day one stg
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
Yeah, I'm still calling it the Switch U.
I'm calling it the Switch Me
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
wiiu was a complete mess because nintendo didn't really knew what to do with it. it tried to market it for
(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.
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
First time Nintendo has ever called a piece of hardware the whatever 2, isn't it?
Actually, true. I'll give you that.
After the Wii U they probably don't want to risk it.
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
I would have called it the Switch Army Knife.
JK I would have called it the Nintendo Power
:kelly: Bait and switch.
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
im thinking "super switch" would've worked better but the acronym isn't exactly ideal
Nintendo SWiiUtch
I'm still waiting on the GameCast 2
Stop combining things I love or I'll get sad they don't exist
I wanted the SwitchU so they wouldn't sell any again
Swatch was taken
I'm still calling it the Swiitch
Super Switch
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.
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
From what I understand, magnets will last longer than any other part of the console. It might be a good choice.
Hopefully the little nub that actually connects is rubber, otherwise yeah it'll break off the first time you drop the switch 2 with the joycons connected.
The rails were brutal tho, I'm sure this will be an improvement
I'm proposing "Nintendo Switch & Knuckles"
So there's going to be a giant 2 on the dock and controller grip? Hm.
Numba two hehehe 💩
Look, if Nintendo didn't want to make a system called Nintendo Dom, why did they make Bowser so horny
It comes with a Nintendo PeggingU.
Lilo and switch
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
Could've gone with Nintendo Dom. Probably not Nintendo Sub, but maybe.
Edit: I can't read and now see this joke was in the original post
I know posters who read the post before commenting and they're all cowards
