I am not saying 100% it will be called Switch 2. But that is the easier name to use for now till it get announced (if it actually different name). But Switch Up is not confirmed either. And in cases like these it's just easier for everyone to just put 2 and use it as it is. It is why also the system after DS was called DS2 before it got announced, the same with xbox 2 psp 2 and so on.

Of course Switch Up is not confirmed. It was a Nintendoguy some years ago that had a meeting with workers in the store i worked who called it Switch Up. And that would be something I think is realistic Nintendo COULD POTENTIALLY do by calling the sucsessor like that. I think the reason for MS not to call the Xbox 360 Xbox 2 is because they do not want to have an inferior name (3 is more than 2) and the stupid uneducated masses would think the PS3 is more advanced than the 360 but both where basically equal. Nintendo had every reason to fear a potential PSP2 could equal a DS2 so 3DS had a higher number in the system's name anyway. They could not have known, Sony called it Vita and not PSP2. 

Because it's not confirmed, it's more okay to say it as Switch 2, for the time being, since everyone is doing it, and is the natural way of name it, at least till Nintendo officially announce it.

Even if i think Switch 2 is boring and not something Nintendo would do, you made a good point. But there is also at least one system that contradicts your theory. Did you know that before the Gamecube was anounced you could preorder it? In the computer the employee typed in your preorder there where even (rumored) Gamecube games that could be preordered. "dol Mario is Missing 2" was one of them. "Dol" stood for the official codname "dolphine" and we all know what "Mario is Missing 2" stood for.😉

A college asked me if i was aware what would happen if it was really called Switch Up. I would be suspected to be a leaker🤣.

My is not a theory but a simple fact. It's easier to just call a successor with the number 2 after, before it is actually announced. Since everyone is doing it, and that has no connection with the pre-order thing you wrote. What is the point of you mentioning it ?

Since when is Nintendo doing what everyone is doing/ suspects them to do? The name was not the reason WiiU flopped. It was a whole shitload of other reasons why it did. I just have the feeling Switch 2 is absolutley not set in stone.

Yes, you may be right. No one is saying the name Switch 2 is a lock. However till it got announced officially it's simpler to just use the Switch 2 name. Everyone knows what it's about, as opposite to Switch up.

Maybe... i am just curious because i predicted march 2025 for the sucessor as the release date back in 2019. I've been called crazy, you cannot imagine. I was not at vgchartz at that time. I've heard stories like "Nintendo always replaces its systems after 6 years blablabla..." so i should not doubt any release date later than march 2023. And the was in 2019 when Nintendo said their system would stay on the market longer than their previous systems, before Covid Kindergarden and the Ukraine story. When it was clear it wouldn't make it they said but but but covid delayed everything and ukraine and inflation... TOtk would be cross gen and May 2023 would already be longer than 6 years. The next date was late 2023 and when nothing came, march 2024 was the absolute latest and then we heard no system would get anounced that FY. after some summer 2024 dreams late 2024 was "absolutley set in stone". And here we are! Were is the "Switch 2"? We do not even have a fucking anouncement, let alone a showcase. Meanwhile march 2025 is the earliest date we could get the system. And after they repeatedly said just something about "announcing" it this FY, even my march 2025 prediction walks on thin ice now. I would not even be surprised if they'd release it in may- july...

Why am i telling you this? Because it seems that nothing is set in stone. Maybe we could look at a Game Boy/ Game Boy Color situation? No one knows...

Nintendo does.

Better than XtremeBG and killer7 for sure. But i am starting to think that not too long time ago Nintendo themselfes did not know when to release it, how to call it and what direction to go. 

But you have to admid one thing: I mean really come on man: Did you know anybody predicting march 2025 as a Switch Up ähm sorry "Switch 2" release date in as early as 2019??😎😎

I mean i would bet even my dig now that 2024 we won't get a Switch sucessor release🤣😂.