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Soundwave 5 days ago
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Slownenberg said:
Soundwave said:

If Switch 2 is the name, they probably ran focus group tests to see what people thought of certain branding.

Even "Super Switch" or "Super Nintendo Switch" it's easy to forget that a lot of people of a certain age may not understand "Super = successor". Sure if you grew up around the Super NES or close enough to it but that was like 33 years ago now. A 16-year-old for instance may not understand "Super Nintendo Switch = Switch successor because remember Super Nintendo?".

But no 16 year old is getting confused about whether something is a new system or not.

The idea that people can't tell the difference between different generation systems is way overblown (ie. WiiU did not sell poorly cuz people thought it was a Wii peripheral or whatever people claim, it sold poorly cuz it was terribly designed and didn't have compelling software).

Sure there may be some clueless parents who want to get a system for their little kid and they may not know what system is what, but that's about it. And it's easy enough with a couple minute internet search for even those clueless parents to figure it out.

Doesn't matter what Nintendo calls it. Everyone is gonna know it is the successor to the Switch. But given the fact that it will likely look nearly identical to the Switch, I think "Switch 2" makes the most sense.

I thought that way once too but I literally met my friend's son during the Wii U era and he didn't know the Wii U was the Wii successor, and he was even a pretty big gamer (PC, Playstation mainly) lol. 

You'd be surprised how clued out some of the general public and younger segments of the audience is.