Topic: What should the Nintendo Switch 2 be called?

Why is the actual name of the console, Switch 2, not in the OP?

Well to be honest I think it will be Switch Plus.

But hopefully this will NOT give it the problem that the Wii U had, because a lot of people thought it is just an add on and not an upgraded console

@alexwolf it's always been called Switch 2, so I didn't add it but I wouldn't mind it being called NS2. I mean PS1 to PS2 was a game changer with Sony.

Personally, I'm pretty sure it'll be switch 2, but I'm not opposed to super switch. Though that could be a Wii u problem. I think switch 2 is straightforward and to the point, so no parents buying for their kids will get confused.

The big issue with Wii U wasn't just the naming but that the early marketing focused almost entirely on the gamepad and that most of the games that were shown (NSMBU, Wii Sports Club, Wii Fit U, etc.) in the reveal were indistinguishable from ones you could already play on the Wii.

So long as they're up front that the new hardware is different from the Switch, and will get new games that it couldn't run, I don't think they'd have that problem.

Last year I suggested Switch Duo.

Means 2, suggests fighting.

And then the dual screen got mentioned, so I modified my suggestion to Switch DuoS.

So you got the "DS" in there somewhere.

https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/nintendo-switch-2/what_sh...

But I would be totally happy with Switch 2.

I think Nintendo Switch 2 would more or less say what it is. Calling it Nintendo Switch ii would kill it.

Super Switch or Switch Advance for me.
New Switch is a viable possibility, but I'd hate if that were it

I made a prediction form to stake your claim, but it hasn't gotten much traction. I'd love to get more responses. https://forms.gle/uTwrGVQsVQDie2zZA

@NeonPizza I think "Super Switch" is actually really fitting, and a nice throw back to the 'Nintendo / Super Nintendo' era.

I was thinking the other day, after seeing the new PS5 pro 30th anniversary version (stylised to look like the original PS1 etc)... it would be really cool if Nintendo did something similar and designed 'Super Switch' to have some throwback SNES designs. Even the buttons or something

The next iteration of Switch should be called after Switch 2... Switch Pro. And cost a Arm/Leg to buy it.

@NeonPizza thanks for making me feel incredibly old! (I was around 5yrs when the snes dropped!!)

Kids today don’t know how good they’ve got it right??

Ninten Do It Again

Would it also be done with the separate North American and Japanese/European variants

or ARMs, eh, eh?

If they use ARM chipset that might be a game changer.

@SwitchForce I meant the fighting game haha, but yes that too

There are so many Arms one can use making new one would be something Fit-Ring that would make more body uses. Arms2 that going a stretch get it. Nintendo Switch Arm - I do wonder about that.

@NeonPizza 100%! I was 87 born, and feel like growing up in the 90s was amazing. We had ‘enough’ (in terms of tech, communications etc) but it didn’t feel as overwhelmingly suffocating as it does today - in terms of social media and such.

From a console/gaming perspective though - it was amazing growing up when console generations actually felt like huge leaps from their predecessors…. SNES->N64!! (And PS1->PS2!)

Also games actually landed as complete creatures, with very few ‘broken releases’… by virtues of no digital fixes or patches. Incredible to think that today it is perfectly acceptable to release a game in a sorry state, to then assume that later patches will appease those who brought day1!!

Couch split-screen was a great time also. Goldeneye was peak…

Entertainment today is cheaper, more plentiful, and generally higher quality than it ever was in the past. People struggle with that because we're all online all the time now and exposed to everyone else's negativity constantly. And decades of this exposure is creating people for whom negativity and cynicism are the expected norm.

It's the reason that it's good to regularly "touch grass" and reconnect with the real world, as it were. Life can be beautiful when you're not swimming through the muck of everyone else's problems and opinions.