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
It comes with a Nintendo PeggingU.
Nintendo SWiiUtch
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
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…
Yeah, I’m still calling it the Switch U.
I’m calling it the Switch Me
I’m proposing “Nintendo Switch & Knuckles”
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
I’m still waiting on the GameCast 2
Stop combining things I love or I’ll get sad they don’t exist
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
switch to what? I’m confused. I think I’ll just get a steamdeck.
Switch 2 the polls
Super Switch
im thinking “super switch” would’ve worked better but the acronym isn’t exactly ideal
They didn’t want people making the “Well if the Switch is so good, why isn’t there a Switch 2?” jokes.
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.
wait until it goes on sale
Idk about where y’all live, but where I live, their consoles never go on sale
Wait until the New Switch 2 comes out and get a secondhand Switch 2
Switch 2 QD-OLED
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
