Switch Nintendo's next generational console

[Venom 1988]

I think Nintendo just want to avoid another Wii U debacle.

Switch 2 leaves little doubt and markets it to everyone that this is a true successor and not a revision.

I'm just ready for the reveal.

Which honestly is probably for the best. Yeah Switch 2 might be boring but for the general public it will make complete sense that this is the next iteration. Look at Xbox with all the confusing names they've had the last few generations. I'm a gamer and I still get them mixed up, nevermind some parent who knows nothing trying to get the right console for their kid.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

Yep. I mean look at Sony. All the PlayStations have used numbers and it's worked for them. It's a proven formula.

Nintendo doesn't need to reinvent the wheel again. Switch has been their greatest success. They just need to build on it.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

I think Nintendo just want to avoid another Wii U debacle.

Switch 2 leaves little doubt and markets it to everyone that this is a true successor and not a revision.

I'm just ready for the reveal.

yeah I get why they are doing it, but still... Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System...Switch...Super Switch...

 

[Scarlet Spider]

yeah I get why they are doing it, but still... Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System...Switch...Super Switch...

With the original two consoles, they had the benefit of both looking drastically different. Just by looking at them, you could tell. By all accounts the new Switch, looks just like the old one but with a bigger screen. They have to tread lightly to avoid market confusion.

 

[Lily Adler]

yeah I get why they are doing it, but still... Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System...Switch...Super Switch...

Noooooo! Not Super Switch! SUPER NINTENDO SWITCH!

 

[Venom 1988]

Noooooo! Not Super Switch! SUPER NINTENDO SWITCH!

Switch Too

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

With the original two consoles, they had the benefit of both looking drastically different. Just by looking at them, you could tell. By all accounts the new Switch, looks just like the old one but with a bigger screen. They have to tread lightly to avoid market confusion.

yeah, I know. it was also a different time, back then. you know? this is just wishful thinking on my part.

Noooooo! Not Super Switch! SUPER NINTENDO SWITCH!

I'll take it!

 

[Teelie]

Switch Too

We have a winner.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

Nintendo to end the console wars forever?

Nintendo Switch 2 could end the console wars forever, claim experts

Either Sony or Microsoft could be forced to withdraw

www.t3.com

 

[Mr. Peanut]

yeah I get why they are doing it, but still... Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System...Switch...Super Switch...

The thing with Super Switch is that it only works once. What would they call a third one, fourth one, etc? Ultra Switch? Mega Switch? Nintendo might be planning to stick with the Switch branding for quite some time, at least until sales significantly drop. Using numbers would mean they can easily keep using the Switch branding indefinitely, without having to waste marketing dollars on coming up with a new variation every few years.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

The thing with Super Switch is that it only works once. What would they call a third one, fourth one, etc? Ultra Switch? Mega Switch? Nintendo might be planning to stick with the Switch branding for quite some time, at least until sales significantly drop. Using numbers would mean they can easily keep using the Switch branding indefinitely, without having to waste marketing dollars on coming up with a new variation every few years.

Since it only works once, at that point they could call the next console after it the Switch 3.

 

[Teelie]

Switch 3: Switch Swap Swoop.

 

[Lily Adler]

The thing with Super Switch is that it only works once. What would they call a third one, fourth one, etc? Ultra Switch? Mega Switch? Nintendo might be planning to stick with the Switch branding for quite some time, at least until sales significantly drop. Using numbers would mean they can easily keep using the Switch branding indefinitely, without having to waste marketing dollars on coming up with a new variation every few years.

The Nintendo 64's development name was the Ultra 64.

 

[Mr. Peanut]

The Nintendo 64's development name was the Ultra 64.

Yeah, I'm aware of that. They ditched the name though, no doubt because the word Ultra does not communicate anything substantially different from the word "Super", so they preferred to focus solely on the amount of bits (after having marketed the SNES as 16 bit and NES as 8 bit), which provides a more concrete progression (though bits became outdated not long afterwards)

Even the most clueless boomer parent or grandparent can easily tell that Switch 3 is better than Switch 2. Whereas telling Ultra Switch apart from Super Switch is just gonna confuse them. Even understanding that Switch 3 is better than Super Switch (as was suggested above by XtremelyBaneful) is more confusing for a clueless parent/grandparent than the perfect simplicity of "Switch 3 > Switch 2 > Switch"

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[KillerMcQueen]

DLSS would certainly be nice to have on Switch 2 games, FSR just isn't as good.

 

[Lily Adler]

Super Nintendo Switch just works the more I play with it. Here's a logo mock up done in MS Paint!

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

Super Nintendo Switch just works the more I play with it. Here's a logo mock up done in MS Paint!

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[Lily Adler]

At least someone does, @Scarlet Spider.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

At least someone does, @Scarlet Spider.

hey the way I see it, even if they do go with that, people will be calling it the Super switch for short anyway

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

this doesn't look that different from the OG to me...

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The buttons and stick on the original Switch were nigh unusable to me with my adult size hands so that’s an area they need to improve by making them larger.

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

It looks just like the OG!