Reddit Leaker Claims To Have Seen/Held Switch 2 (Retail Version)

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haxxiy said:

JackHandy said:

So many people will claim it's less risky launching with almost the same exact design/name... but I claim otherwise. I don't think you could get much riskier. The three times Nintendo dominated the industry (NES, Wii and Switch) were when they shook things up. The four times they did all right, failed, or outright bombed, they played it safe (SNES, N64, Gamecube and Wii-U). So if the Switch 2 does indeed launch as this leak is stating it will, and it dominates, it'll be a first for the Big-N. Curious to see how all this unfolds.

The N64, Wii U and GameCube were hardly playing safe. All of them had some combination of risky and ultimately terrible media/controller/design decisions (also naming in the case of the Wii U) and released way too late.

The Switch is basically Nintendo's iPhone, they're going to rock that design forever.

I feel JackHandy was more referring to “playing it safe” with respect to branding. SNES and Wii U were branded as an upgraded NES and Wii (resp). Nothing entirely new or original, unlike NES, Wii, and NSW.