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(Rumor) Next Nintendo console is called Nintendo Switch 2

GymWolf

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MAtgS

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AJUMP23 said:
Super Nintendo Switch would be a better choice.
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No, no it would not.

1. Customers understand numbers, Apple has trained them on this. The average layman will look at Switch 2 on store shelves and immediately get it. Even a word like "super" might make some think it's a pro model and next gen.

2. SNES sold 20 million less than NES and 100 million less than Switch. In Nintendo's eyes what value does that word contribute?

3. Switch 2 means eventually having a Switch 3, a Switch 4, a Switch 9, a Switch 57. What is the gen after Super Switch called exactly?
 
Dacvak

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It’d be nice if it were actually called Switch 2, but knowing Nintendo it’s gonna be something much dumber and more confusing.
 
Walter Matthau

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I honestly don’t think many people were sincerely confused by the name of the Wii U. It was a terribly stupid name for a console, but pretty sure most of the bewilderment on social media was completely manufactured.

The idea that it sold poorly due to everyone thinking it was an accessory for the original Wii or some other nonsense is absurd to me.
 
solecon64

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I don't get the sarcasm in this thread. Everyone acting like "well, d'uuhh" as if this isn't Nintendo we're talking about.

Naming the console Switch 2 isn't obvious AT ALL when it comes to Nintendo, come on.
 
LordOcidax

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If true thats the hardest achievement for Nintendo ever and is hilarious 😂 Can’t imagine the amount of meetings to put a number 2 there.
 
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kunonabi

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Walter Matthau said:
I honestly don’t think many people were sincerely confused by the name of the Wii U. It was a terribly stupid name for a console, but pretty sure most of the bewilderment on social media was completely manufactured.

The idea that it sold poorly due to everyone thinking it was an accessory for the original Wii or some other nonsense is absurd to me.
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Nah, I was in a gamestop once and the clerk was trying to explain the Wii U to a customer buying Wii games and the guy just thought it was an add-on no matter what he said. I thought the same way until that day but the name really was a disaster.
 
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BlackTron

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Walter Matthau said:
I honestly don’t think many people were sincerely confused by the name of the Wii U. It was a terribly stupid name for a console, but pretty sure most of the bewilderment on social media was completely manufactured.

The idea that it sold poorly due to everyone thinking it was an accessory for the original Wii or some other nonsense is absurd to me.
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There were many reasons it failed, but no dissertation of its failure would be complete without the bullet point that it was so badly marketed that it wasn't even really clear what it was.

Nintendo intentionally (per their own statements) made the console look like Wii to take the focus away from it and center on the controller, and that went down to the reveal video where the system hid in TV cabinets with the profile of a Wii while the Gamepad was shown off. In tandem with the name, and Wii audience which didn't follow games (only reacted to hype), it backfired -they didn't even know they were looking at a new game system to investigate, and the Gamepad was the opposite of the simple wiimote that made Wii popular. DOA.
 
TikiLagoonSam

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I’m really hoping for it to be called the Wii U 2.

Also, a bit of Nintendo history for you, when Nintendo was coming up with the name of the Wii U, an ambulance drove by, and the name was born. History was made, and Mariokart 8 is now a 30 million+ seller. Nashimas *bows head and farts*
 
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Banjo64

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MAtgS said:
No, no it would not.

1. Customers understand numbers, Apple has trained them on this. The average layman will look at Switch 2 on store shelves and immediately get it. Even a word like "super" might make some think it's a pro model and next gen.

2. SNES sold 20 million less than NES and 100 million less than Switch. In Nintendo's eyes what value does that word contribute?

3. Switch 2 means eventually having a Switch 3, a Switch 4, a Switch 9, a Switch 57. What is the gen after Super Switch called exactly?
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Super Duper Switch
 
Sooner

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This thread has taught me 90% of NeoGAF posters will take anything as gospel if you state it in a thread title.

It doesn't even matter if there is a Rumor tag, or that the actual source clearly as zero credibility.
 
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MiguelItUp

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They've never gone that route, and it worked very well for Playstation, so why not? Makes me proud of Nintendo for looking into a different naming convention.
 
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Kataploom

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Sure Nintendo projected 13M units for this FY just to self-sabotage Holidays sales (which accounts for half of it)
 
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