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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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[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

I'm proposing "Nintendo Switch & Knuckles"

[–] DeathToBritain@hexbear.net 5 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

i'm still waiting for the nintendo 65

[–] DeathToBritain@hexbear.net 3 points 4 hours 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

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm still waiting on the GameCast 2

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 2 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago

Super Switch

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[–] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I'm calling it the Switch Me

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 hours 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

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 6 hours ago

I would have called it the Switch Army Knife.

JK I would have called it the Nintendo Power

[–] asante@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 3 points 6 hours ago

Lilo and switch

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 6 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] buh@hexbear.net 20 points 11 hours ago

Switch 2 the polls planet-hillary

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours 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

[–] LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net 31 points 13 hours 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).

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 9 points 8 hours 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

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] buh@hexbear.net 28 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 2 points 6 hours ago
[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 6 points 10 hours ago

That's a deep cut of online gamer humor

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 12 hours 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.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours 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

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Switch 2 QD-OLED

[–] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours 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

[–] TheDrink@hexbear.net 8 points 11 hours ago

nintendo mouse

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

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 6 points 10 hours ago

I'm still calling it the Swiitch

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 10 points 12 hours ago

:kelly: Bait and switch.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 17 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 15 points 13 hours 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.

[–] butter@midwest.social 3 points 2 hours ago

In Japanese, 2 is pronounced "ni"

So it would've been the Wii Ni

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 4 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 14 points 13 hours ago

I thought that WiiU was the sound an ambulance makes

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 10 points 13 hours 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

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 13 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

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

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[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 6 points 11 hours ago

Numba two hehehe 💩

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