Nintendo almost called the Nintendo Switch 2 the Super Nintendo Switch, but one important detail stopped them.

The Nintendo Switch 2 nearly had a very different name, in what would have been a 30-year throwback.

Switch 2 was almost called the Super Nintendo Switch, but Nintendo felt it "didn't feel right" to use the same naming convention as the SNES due to Switch 2's backwards compatibility. In a new Ask ...

And they revealed that at one point they almost called it the Super Nintendo Switch. “There were a lot of ideas for the name, and we really struggled to find the right one,” said Kawamoto.

Nintendo Switch 2 was almost named the Super Nintendo Switch, a reference to the classic Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The decision to stick with Nintendo Switch 2 was made to reflect the ...

In an interview, Switch 2 producer Kouichi Kawamoto revealed why Nintendo stopped short of giving the console a name reminiscent of the Super NES: Super NES, which came out after the NES ...

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One of the ideas that Nintendo considered was "Super Nintendo Switch." Nintendo decided against this, however, because it "didn't feel right to use the same naming convention as the Super NES." ...

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