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[-] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 26 points 3 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.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

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

"XboxoneX"

[-] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 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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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 110 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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.

What you don’t want a switch 64?

[-] dil@piefed.zip 9 points 3 days ago

Just realized that was for 64 bit

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago
[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 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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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 points 3 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.

[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago
[-] HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Nintendo Switch (i)

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 11 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Bitflip@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 days ago

New Super Nintendo Switch i 2ds XL Entertainment System

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago
[-] alastel@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

featuring dante from devil may cry

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[-] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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...)

[-] okrakai@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

or the switch U

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 25 points 3 days ago
[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 14 points 3 days ago

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

Ultra Nintendo

Turbo Nintendo

Super Duper Nintendo

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 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!”

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

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

[-] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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?"

[-] forestbeasts@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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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[-] nullify3112@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nintendo 2000

Nintendo 3000

Nintendo 4

[-] TAG@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

No, it should have been The Switcheroo

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Go full 80s.

Switch Turbo: Radical Edition

[-] Wfh@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago

Super Switch Fighter II Turbo

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[-] kahjtheundedicated@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

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

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago
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[-] Cellari@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

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

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