Nintendo Switch 2 should have been called Super Nintendo Switch

12 days ago by oni ᓚᘏᗢ to c/showerthoughts

TheTechnician27 110 points 12 days ago

Probably didn't because (among, I'm sure, other reasons) the SNES was such a major upgrade over the NES that it would've drawn a negative comparison between the lesser difference of the Switch 2 versus the Switch. Younger audiences wouldn't get it/wouldn't care, and older audiences would see it as pandering/unwarranted.

Could also be that audiences were still wary of the whole Wii/Wii U debacle and just wanted reassurance that it'd be "more of the same but better".

And lastly, if they wanted a "Switch 3" in the future, it's been shown by Xbox that funny naming schemes can go awry after the second iteration.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart 45 points 12 days ago

What you don’t want a switch 64?

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Trex202 25 points 12 days ago

Super Switch 64

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SatansMaggotyCumFart 12 points 12 days ago

That’s the next one.

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DaddleDew 16 points 12 days ago

And then the Switch Cube

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funkreddit 3 points 12 days ago

Then the Switch 19(power cable sold separately)

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dil 9 points 12 days ago

Just realized that was for 64 bit

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capuccino 7 points 12 days ago

Nintendo x86

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Buddahriffic 3 points 11 days ago

Out of the big three, Nintendo is the only one that hasn't had an x86/x64 based console.

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halcyoncmdr 4 points 11 days ago

At the time, most home computers were still 16-bit.

The N64 released in 1996. Mac System 7 released in 1991 with 32-bit support. It took until Windows 95 for the first consumer 32-bit version of Windows.

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Buddahriffic 1 point 11 days ago

Pfft. You say that like anyone needed more than 64k of addressable memory. Chrome wasn't released for another 13 years after Win95.

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wonderingwanderer 4 points 12 days ago

Why not go big and make it a Switch 128?

I understand that there's a diminishing return and that a 128-bit processor core doesn't really add much in the way of performance over 64-bit, but it would be like having a V8 under the hood with an obscene amount of horsepower that you never use, no? People drive those anyway.

Or be the true innovators again and release a ternary gaming system 🤯 They could call it the Nintendo3 (pronounced "Nintendo Base Three"), the Nintendo Trit, or the Nintendo ThreeWay

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4am 1 point 12 days ago

128-bit addressing would add memory and processing overhead that would make it not worth it. 64-bit addressing is already more memory than will ever be in a Nintendo console (16 exabytes, or 16 million TBi).

The Nintendo Swirch 2 also has a 128-bit memory bus, which means it can move up to 128 bits of memory at once. This does make memory operations faster, effective increasing the bandwidth of memory operations.

The PS5 has a memory bus width of 256 bits. The Xbox Series S has 128 bits, and the Series X has 320 bit memory bus width. So, wide buses aren’t uncommon on modern architectures.

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wonderingwanderer 1 point 12 days ago

That's just the memory bus though, not the processor core architecture. A 128-bit memory bus can run two 64-bit processor cores simultaneously, but that's still using a 64-bit instruction set, no?

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Ghostalmedia 8 points 12 days ago

IMHO, Nintendo slaps “Super” on everything. At this point it’s basically a generic brand element that they use to make things Nintendo-ish.

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bran_buckler 10 points 12 days ago

Mediocre Mario doesn’t have the same kind of ring to it… actually, I take that back. We were robbed!

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Jesus_666 7 points 12 days ago

How about Sub Mario Bothers? Switch Mario Brothers? Vanilla But Kink-Friendly Mario Brothers?

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dohpaz42 5 points 12 days ago

Vanilla But Kink-Friendly Mario Brothers?

I’m feeling a little called out tbh.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 12 days ago

Medium Dave Lilywhite sends his regard

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0ops 4 points 12 days ago

It's Nintendo. They could've called it something ridiculous like GIMP and everybody and their mom, kids, and dog would line up like

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TheTechnician27 8 points 12 days ago

Wow, really misusing that meme format.

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0ops 6 points 12 days ago

Haha I saw that posted a bit ago. Sure it wasn't a great meme but the meme thread it spawned in the comments got me pretty good

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MimicJar 6 points 11 days ago

Unless they slapped a "U" on the end, then no one will line up.

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Bitflip 30 points 12 days ago

New Super Nintendo Switch i 2ds XL Entertainment System

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TheTechnician27 20 points 12 days ago

& Knuckles

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alastel 10 points 12 days ago

featuring dante from devil may cry

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haywire7 5 points 12 days ago

Electric boogaloo

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HexaBack 4 points 12 days ago

Ultimate

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HexaBack 30 points 12 days ago

>new<

Nintendo Switch

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psx_crab 13 points 11 days ago

Nintendo Switch U

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HexaBack 4 points 11 days ago

Nintendo Switch (i)

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BambiDiego 26 points 11 days ago

So much silliness in this thread, I love it.

To be the wet blanket, no, Nintendo did the right thing because they learned their lesson from Wii U, and to a lesser extent from the New 3DS

It's not about the players, it's about who buys it, and the ones who buy it are parents and adults who aren't always up to date on gaming news.

PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5. That makes sense, you want the latest one? Buy the bigger number.

Wii U? I already have a Wii at the house, the kids don't even use it. It's a tablet? They already have a tablet though.

New 3DS? I already got a DS and they tricked me into the 3DS! I don't even need the 3D feature, that was a waste of money. It's still pretty new, I don't need another new one.

I worked at GameStop all those releases and I can't emphasize just HOW MAY TIMES I had those conversations with customers. Not just parents either, but casual consumers.

Xbox was confusing too eventually.

Nobody got confused on Playstation.

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chiliedogg 9 points 11 days ago

Xbox started looking at 14yo's gamer tags and thought that was a good naming convention:

"XboxoneX"

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BambiDiego 4 points 11 days ago

I'm still not over the fact that not ONE person at Microsoft said "Really? We're calling it the XBone?"

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BigBananaDealer 2 points 10 days ago

the theory i like to believe is they saw everyone call the xbox 360 "the 360" so they assumed if they called the new xbox the xbox one everyone would call it "the one"

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Buddahriffic 1 point 11 days ago

Why do you assume that them using the name meant no one noticed? There's a non-zero chance the person who came up with the name was trolling the company and deliberately set that up. Stranger things have happened, like the phalluses on the Little Mermaid poster art.

There's also a chance that some marketing people came up with it, higher ups liked it, then didn't appreciate anyone pointing out the name they like had a potentially embarrassing abbreviation and would respond negatively to that. Or maybe they already had a culture of people pointing out things like that getting flak for it and anyone who noticed just stayed quiet. Hell, I could easily see that kind of culture being established when people objected to all the actual deliberate anti-features MS has been adding over the years.

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JohnnyEnzyme 25 points 12 days ago

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lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII 10 points 11 days ago

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ChapulinColorado 1 point 11 days ago

<Insert show me the real SNES meme here featuring: SNES, Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Chalmers>

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KingOfTheCouch 15 points 11 days ago

The Nintendo Router

Fun side note, I've had more than one fun conversation where someone forgets to say "Nintendo" when asking about connecting a switch to my network (especially back when it was a new thing...)

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TAG 14 points 12 days ago

No, it should have been The Switcheroo

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FrChazzz 14 points 12 days ago

I'm still bummed they didn't call the N64 any of the following:

Ultra Nintendo

Turbo Nintendo

Super Duper Nintendo

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4am 15 points 12 days ago

It was originally called the Nintendo Ultra 64:

I think they changed it late in development because they realized there was no “next” name and everyone would have exaggerated any issues with the GameCube being like “Nintendo couldn’t top the Ultra I guess!”

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WizardofFrobozz 6 points 11 days ago

It was most likely because Konami already had a fairly successful publishing house named Ultra Games.

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defaultusername 5 points 11 days ago

Nintendo when naming their next console:

Yamauchi: "Hey Shigeru, what should we name our next console?"

Miyamoto: "No idea. Anyway, I was thinking about going to the aquarium, you wanna join?"

Yamauchi: "Perfect! We'll call it the Dolphin!"

Miyamoto: "...What?"

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forestbeasts 1 point 10 days ago

And then the Wii is 'Revolution' (see: RVL-* in the model numbers of everything) which, yeah, it pretty much was.

-- Frost

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lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII 4 points 11 days ago

That name was so cool

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Psythik -2 points 12 days ago

I mean they could have just stopped after the Ultra 64. The GameCube was alright but there was no point in continuing to invest in Nintendo consoles after that unless you're just a casual gamer.

I mean the Wii was just an overclocked GameCube with motion controls. The WiiU was just a Wii with a slightly better (yet still outdated) GPU and a worse controller. The Switch 2 is literally just a Switch, again the only difference being that it uses slightly less ancient hardware.

Nintendo gave up completely in innovating after the 90s. Now all they know how to do is cater to the mainstream and sue their most hardcore fans in the name of profit. I'm tired of their Late Stage Capitalism bullshit!

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Zanathos 17 points 12 days ago

Quite the interesting take that they "stopped innovating". Sure their hardware specs have always been lack luster, but Satoru Iwata always focused on fun over bleeding edge. After the Wii, PlayStation and Microsoft followed suite with the PS4 "wand" and Xbox Kinect. After the Switch released, Sony created the PS Portal, not to mention the Steam Deck and other copy cats. They have literally been the top innovators of the last few generations.

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mantricx 4 points 11 days ago

PSP was way before the switch, but otherwise I fully agree.

ETA: but I guess that was copying GBA so. Nevermind.

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Tattorack 7 points 11 days ago

Nintendo gave up completely in innovating after the 90s.

Very weird take, especially after mentioning:

I mean the Wii was just an overclocked GameCube with motion controls.

PlayStation 3 was just a more powerful PlayStation 2. Xbox 360 was just a more powerful Xbox. Then there is Nintendo who, instead of making a more powerful Gamecube, they went with largely the same hardware but with a radically different control scheme.

Isn't that the definition of trying to innovate?

Also, the Switch format has everything now. I don't see how anything can innovate further than to radically change what a videogame even is.

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nullify3112 4 points 11 days ago

Nintendo 2000

Nintendo 3000

Nintendo 4

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kahjtheundedicated 12 points 12 days ago

Should’ve called the Switch Lite the Switch Pocket, and the Switch 2 the Switch Advance

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capuccino 7 points 12 days ago

Switch Boy Advance SP.

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kahjtheundedicated 6 points 12 days ago

Can’t wait for the New Switch 3DS XL

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Jesus_666 7 points 12 days ago

Let's just do the whole DS lineup.

Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch Lite
Nintendo Switchi
Nintendo Switchi XL
Nintendo 3Switch
Nintendo 3Switch XL
Nintendo 2Switch
New Nintendo 3Switch
New Nintendo 3Switch XL
New Nintendo 2Switch XL

Yes, very sane.

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Quetzalcutlass 5 points 12 days ago

Still more sensible than whatever the hell the Xbox has going on.

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Dreamcatcher 2 points 12 days ago

Slap a second screen on it and call it Nintendo Dual Switch.

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DarkMetatron 11 points 11 days ago

The Nintendo Switch is a handheld device, so they should have called it Nintendo Switch Advanced

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Wfh 10 points 12 days ago

Super Switch Fighter II Turbo

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dohpaz42 2 points 12 days ago

World Edition(TM)

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bradboimler 2 points 12 days ago

Hyper Fighting

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Cityshrimp 1 point 11 days ago

Rainbow Edition

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Pixel_Jock_17 1 point 11 days ago

This whole chain and thread really is making me remember that video Power Thirst

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auzy1 7 points 12 days ago

They should have named the joy-cons the super drift controller too

Although, considering that all of the joy-cons all seem to eventually fail, the "con" part of the name was certainly appropriate

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Pixel_Jock_17 1 point 11 days ago

Joy Con - a conning of your joy

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Cellari 6 points 11 days ago

Oh, that would have been sweet. Then the next Switch would be Switch 64. :D

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okrakai 5 points 11 days ago

or the switch U

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dwemthy 5 points 12 days ago

Nintendo Potentiometer

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zalgotext 2 points 11 days ago

Nintendo Bratty Sub

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THE_GR8_MIKE 4 points 12 days ago

I thought this for a while as well. Until it became blatantly obvious how much of a "Wii U" moment that would be. Not as bad, but nowhere near as concise and obvious as Switch 2.

It would also be the Nintendo Super Nintendo Switch. Or the Nintendo Super Switch. And that last one doesn't sound good to me personally.

Switch 2 makes the most sense when you really dive in to it.

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massive_bereavement 1 point 12 days ago

I'm still waiting for the Nintendo Wii Me.

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Armok_the_bunny 1 point 12 days ago

Why not just the Super Nintendo Switch? No need to lead it off with the redundant 'Nintendo'.

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THE_GR8_MIKE 1 point 11 days ago

Because the company is named Nintendo, not Super Nintendo.

The SNES was the Nintendo Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Armok_the_bunny 1 point 11 days ago

I have literally not once ever seen it referred to as such.

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THE_GR8_MIKE 1 point 11 days ago

Yeah, no one ever has. But that's what it was called.

Which is why I said it to your previous comment. If you wanna circle back to what you already said, and then to my response, it makes more sense 👍

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libewa 4 points 12 days ago

Apparently that was actually a plan once, but the SNES wasn't backwards compatible (which sparked complaints back then!), while the Switch 2 is. (My sauce is a YouTube short tho, so take this with a grain of salt)

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someguy3 4 points 12 days ago

Super Nintendo Switch U cube.

Nah, people understand numbers.

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capuccino 6 points 12 days ago

where are the others 358 xbox?

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someguy3 1 point 12 days ago

One was accounted for.

Sequential numbers if you want.

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Kolanaki 4 points 12 days ago

They should have made two spin off consoles, The Nintendo Top and the Nintendo Bottom. That way they have a complete set.

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psx_crab 1 point 11 days ago

And then a year later they gonna release Nintendo Left and Nintendo Right as an upgraded version.

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roofuskit 3 points 12 days ago

Should have been called the Bait and Switch, because of the physical media situation.

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auzy1 4 points 11 days ago

They got the name "Joy-Con's correct". Because, they screwed everyone with stick drift

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RizzRustbolt 3 points 11 days ago

Go full 80s.

Switch Turbo: Radical Edition

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hOrni 3 points 12 days ago

Switch too electric bugaloo.

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DigDoug 3 points 12 days ago

Switch Ultra 64

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ieGod 2 points 11 days ago

Then there's MS over here ruining decades of easily understood versioning and thinking that was a Good Move™.

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darthsundhaft 2 points 12 days ago

That would have immediately remedied the awful console name. Like honestly, still cannot get over it being called "switch". How do you go from GameCube, Wii, Wii-U, to just a plain stupid switch? Lame!

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4am 13 points 12 days ago

…it’s “Switch” because it goes from being on your TV to being portable. Even the logo and the sound are reminders that it “switches” between different ways of playing.

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darthsundhaft 4 points 12 days ago

As much as they want to market it that way, I just always see this in my mind when hearing Nintendo Switch:

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psx_crab 5 points 11 days ago

It's a good dad joke, don't take it away.

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A_Random_Idiot 9 points 11 days ago

switch is a thousand times better than Wii/Wii-U.

Which was so confusing it wasnt until like, this year that i found out the Wii-U was a separate console and not just a tablet you bought to use with your wii.

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darthsundhaft 1 point 11 days ago

Wii-U just sounds dumb cuz they gave no thought. Wii was a headscratcher but I didn't have it mapped to anything IRL that I would confuse it with. #ForeverAlone

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igmelonh 1 point 11 days ago

Lol I only found out when the Wii U was at the end of its lifecycle and a host of a podcast I listened to was like "it's no wonder — so many people think it's just a tablet for the Wii." I was like it isn't?!

I've never had someone tell me that they owned one, which is insane considering how popular the Wii was. Talk about marketing failure.

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JasonDJ 1 point 12 days ago

They should've renamed themselves from "Nintendo" to "Baten".

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cupcakezealot 1 point 12 days ago

wiiswitch

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funkreddit 2 points 12 days ago

Swiitch

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melfie 1 point 12 days ago

May as well call it “Switch 2 Linux Gaming PCs” based on their actions pushing us all that direction anyway. Their legal team especially can get fucked. Not that Nintendo is any better or worse than Sony or Microsoft.

The good part is that we don’t need their stupid consoles because most games are available for PC and the few exclusives that aren’t will be available to emulate at some point.

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Tiral 1 point 11 days ago

That would require them to be clever. They just keep making the same games over and over.

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SailorFuzz 0 points 12 days ago

I think they missed out not calling it the

Super Switch!

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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
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