7mo ago

The Nintendo Switch 2 and its dock, as described by the mystery Reddit leaker

www.theverge.com

Mirror: https://archive.is/2024.12.19-055930/https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/18/24324483/nintendo-switch-2-leak-reddit-next-handheld

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I'm not falling for any Switch 2 leak that claims it's actually going to be called Switch 2.
- The New Super Nintendo® Switch^tm
  
  &knuckles
- I'm sure they at least learned to not call it Switch U
Okay my thesis on this:
Nintendo perfected the Handheld gaming console with the switch.
This thing is the first time ever that Nintendo upgraded an existing home console.
I hope they don’t fuck up the naming
- They didn't perfect shit, that thing had tons of problems not the least of which is that it's super breakable
  
  Please take my perfect with a saltmine of salt. I meant it as a way of experience, usability. My OLED is a total asshat that gets warm and turns off while in stand by for no real reason. For this I sold my release day switch.
- What about NES>SNES or N64>Gamecube
  Neither of those updates was revolutionary, imo
  
  Yeah, it's pretty normal for Nintendo to make a slight improvement every two consoles. Also see the Wii and Wii U.
  
  Im guessing its differentiated on te basis that neither new entry supported the previous' titles or peripherals. It is more an iterative improvement than a new console
  
  They weren't upgrading existing ones. The DD I guess did.
- Not the first time, but the last time they just added a Super.
  as much as we’d love it to be called the “Super Nintendo Switch,” it’ll likely be introduced as the Nintendo Switch 2.
  
  I could see "Switch Pro," if it's literally just a better Switch. Nintendo seems to not like numbers...
- I mean Gameboy to Gameboy Color. DS to DSi. They were the same machine with improved specs to the point where the new one had unique games that couldn't run on the old hardware.
  
  They said "home consoles", which is still a bunk claim. The Wii was, internally, an upgraded GameCube that could still play GC games using GC controllers and memory cards; and then Wii got its own upgrade...
- The NS One
- i mean, this is also a handled. if we look at the way they name their handhelds then switch 2 may not be it, but switch extra or switch (new feature here) would be very in line with their names. Nintendo ds, ds lite, 3ds, others? Gameboy, Gameboy color, Gameboy advance, Gameboy advance sp - particularly egregious.
  
  Super Switch, Switch Advance, Switcharoo… as long as it isn’t SwitchPLUS or reSwitch or even SwitchON… or Swiitch… or NewNintendoSwitch…
- Maybe you forgot about the Wii - > WiiU?
  
  The problem was that the WiiU wasn't just a hardware upgrade, which is why the name was horrible and completely misrepresented what it was.
Sounds about right; I've seen one retailer here offered cases for the new Switch, so I am assuming it will launch spring 2025, summer at the latest. The triggers looked a little different, perhaps the same as other consoles for better control in racing games.

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