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
They didn’t want people making the “Well if the Switch is so good, why isn’t there a Switch 2?” jokes.
switch to what? I’m confused. I think I’ll just get a steamdeck.
Switch 2 the polls
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.
I thought that WiiU was the sound an ambulance makes
One time my mate’s house got burgled and they stole the WiiU controller but not the actual WiiU.
Yeah. True. At least they’re more creative with naming than Sony lol
In Japanese, 2 is pronounced “ni”
So it would’ve been the Wii Ni
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.
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
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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
First time Nintendo has ever called a piece of hardware the whatever 2, isn’t it?
Actually, true. I’ll give you that.
We’ve had:
-super whatever
-whatever advance
-3whatever
-whatever u
-whatever color
-whatever pocket
-whatever light
-whatever sp
but never whatever 2
come to think of it, I don’t think they’ve ever reused any of their “the next version of whatever” terms, each of those is unique
My favourite dumb name is the
-New 3whatever XL
i forgot about “new whatever” that shit made my craigslist search for a used one really annoying. I do think the new 2ds xl is the ideal form of the 3ds generation, but it’s such a stupid name.
After the Wii U they probably don’t want to risk it.
:kelly: Bait and switch.
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
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
Swatch was taken
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
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
