Switch 2 was almost called the Super Switch

After today’s hourly Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, the company still publishes recent details about the console and its upcoming games. This information channel after Direction contained a series of interviews with people behind the creation $ 450 console—Lounching in June – and from them we learned that the upcoming hybrid game device was not all the time called Switch 2.

In a newly published interview on the official Nintendo websiteManufacturer Switch 2 Kouichi Kawamoto and Switch 2 director Takuhiro Dohta discussed how they settled on the name of the upcoming console. And they revealed that sooner or later they almost called it a Super Nintendo Switch.

“There were many ideas for this name and we really tried to find the right one,” said Kawamoto.

“We even considered ideas such as” Super Nintendo Switch “. However, Super Nes, which appeared after NES, could not play NES games. Because Switch 2 can play switch gamesIt was not good to use the same naming convention as Super Nes. “

Kawamoto also explained that Nintendo doesn’t want people to deal with the console specifications, but relatively “think about it as the latest system developed by Nintendo” and added that the company hopes that it can change into a “new standard”.

“From the beginning of development,” said Dohta, (*2*)

Dohta claims that the Nintendo plan is that the name Switch 2 will “just communicate” to customers that if you ought to switch, well, Switch 2 is the latest and best version.

“We really fought because there were so many different ideas,” admitted Dohta. But ultimately, after many and back, all of us agreed that it should in the end be Nintendo Switch 2. “

Kotaku