The name of the Switch 2 has been known for a long time, but the new hardware would have been almost very different. Nintendo would have used the past.
For the new Switch 2, you ultimately oriented yourself to the name of the predecessor and just added one, but the name finding was not quite as easy as you would like to assume. Rather, Nintendo had difficulties in this regard and could have opted for a completely different name in which one would have used the past.
After yesterday's direct, an interview with the top developers of the hardware was published on the official Nintendo website, which also dealt with this topic. Accordingly, one would have had "a lot of ideas" regarding the name finding and, according to Producer Kouichi Kawamoto, the Switch 2 could also have called "Super Nintendo Switch" - based on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System aka Super Nes Aka Snes from the early 90s.
"There were really a lot of ideas for the name and we had really hard to find the right one. We have considered ideas like 'Super Nintendo Switch'. However, the Super NES came out after the NES and could not play NES games. After the Switch 2 can also play switch titles, it did not feel right to use the same convention of name as Super NES," said Kawamoto.
"The Switch 2 is a new system with improved performance, but we want the players to put on their hands without concentrating on the specifications, but rather with the idea that it is developed by the latest system by Nintendo. In the hope that this will be the new standard for the Nintendo Switch, we have mentioned Switch 2," said Kawamoto.
