I'm still bummed they didn't call the N64 any of the following:

Ultra Nintendo

Turbo Nintendo

Super Duper Nintendo

…it’s “Switch” because it goes from being on your TV to being portable. Even the logo and the sound are reminders that it “switches” between different ways of playing.

Nintendo Potentiometer

>new<

Nintendo Switch

It was originally called the Nintendo Ultra 64:

I think they changed it late in development because they realized there was no “next” name and everyone would have exaggerated any issues with the GameCube being like “Nintendo couldn’t top the Ultra I guess!”

Ultimate

128-bit addressing would add memory and processing overhead that would make it not worth it. 64-bit addressing is already more memory than will ever be in a Nintendo console (16 exabytes, or 16 million TBi).

The Nintendo Swirch 2 also has a 128-bit memory bus, which means it can move up to 128 bits of memory at once. This does make memory operations faster, effective increasing the bandwidth of memory operations.

The PS5 has a memory bus width of 256 bits. The Xbox Series S has 128 bits, and the Series X has 320 bit memory bus width. So, wide buses aren’t uncommon on modern architectures.

Hyper Fighting

No, it should have been The Switcheroo

Medium Dave Lilywhite sends his regard

As much as they want to market it that way, I just always see this in my mind when hearing Nintendo Switch:

hexacontakaitetragon

That is unlikely to be the English version, but I like it

I mean they could have just stopped after the Ultra 64. The GameCube was alright but there was no point in continuing to invest in Nintendo consoles after that unless you're just a casual gamer.

I mean the Wii was just an overclocked GameCube with motion controls. The WiiU was just a Wii with a slightly better (yet still outdated) GPU and a worse controller. The Switch 2 is literally just a Switch, again the only difference being that it uses slightly less ancient hardware.

Nintendo gave up completely in innovating after the 90s. Now all they know how to do is cater to the mainstream and sue their most hardcore fans in the name of profit. I'm tired of their Late Stage Capitalism bullshit!

Should have been called the Bait and Switch, because of the physical media situation.

Quite the interesting take that they "stopped innovating". Sure their hardware specs have always been lack luster, but Satoru Iwata always focused on fun over bleeding edge. After the Wii, PlayStation and Microsoft followed suite with the PS4 "wand" and Xbox Kinect. After the Switch released, Sony created the PS Portal, not to mention the Steam Deck and other copy cats. They have literally been the top innovators of the last few generations.

That's just the memory bus though, not the processor core architecture. A 128-bit memory bus can run two 64-bit processor cores simultaneously, but that's still using a 64-bit instruction set, no?

They got the name "Joy-Con's correct". Because, they screwed everyone with stick drift

That name was so cool

Unless they slapped a "U" on the end, then no one will line up.

Rainbow Edition

You have to put your keys in the bowl to turn it on

switch is a thousand times better than Wii/Wii-U.

Which was so confusing it wasnt until like, this year that i found out the Wii-U was a separate console and not just a tablet you bought to use with your wii.

Nintendo Bratty Sub

At the time, most home computers were still 16-bit.

The N64 released in 1996. Mac System 7 released in 1991 with 32-bit support. It took until Windows 95 for the first consumer 32-bit version of Windows.

That would require them to be clever. They just keep making the same games over and over.

Nintendo Switch U

It's a good dad joke, don't take it away.

And then a year later they gonna release Nintendo Left and Nintendo Right as an upgraded version.

Switch Switch

Lol I only found out when the Wii U was at the end of its lifecycle and a host of a podcast I listened to was like "it's no wonder — so many people think it's just a tablet for the Wii." I was like it isn't?!

I've never had someone tell me that they owned one, which is insane considering how popular the Wii was. Talk about marketing failure.

It was most likely because Konami already had a fairly successful publishing house named Ultra Games.

PSP was way before the switch, but otherwise I fully agree.

ETA: but I guess that was copying GBA so. Nevermind.

Oh, that would have been sweet. Then the next Switch would be Switch 64. :D

GB

GBC

GBA

GBA SP

Then the PSP I think showed up around the release of the GBA M and the DS

This whole chain and thread really is making me remember that video Power Thirst

Joy Con - a conning of your joy

The Nintendo Router

Fun side note, I've had more than one fun conversation where someone forgets to say "Nintendo" when asking about connecting a switch to my network (especially back when it was a new thing...)

Nintendo gave up completely in innovating after the 90s.

Very weird take, especially after mentioning:

I mean the Wii was just an overclocked GameCube with motion controls.

PlayStation 3 was just a more powerful PlayStation 2. Xbox 360 was just a more powerful Xbox. Then there is Nintendo who, instead of making a more powerful Gamecube, they went with largely the same hardware but with a radically different control scheme.

Isn't that the definition of trying to innovate?

Also, the Switch format has everything now. I don't see how anything can innovate further than to radically change what a videogame even is.

Nintendo when naming their next console:

Yamauchi: "Hey Shigeru, what should we name our next console?"

Miyamoto: "No idea. Anyway, I was thinking about going to the aquarium, you wanna join?"

Yamauchi: "Perfect! We'll call it the Dolphin!"

Miyamoto: "...What?"

Nintendo 2000

Nintendo 3000

Nintendo 4

Nintendo Switch 2 One

<Insert show me the real SNES meme here featuring: SNES, Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Chalmers>

Definitive Edition

PS Portal is not the PSP. It's a dedicated device that streams games from a PS5.

The Nintendo Switch is a handheld device, so they should have called it Nintendo Switch Advanced

Then there's MS over here ruining decades of easily understood versioning and thinking that was a Good Move™.

So much silliness in this thread, I love it.

To be the wet blanket, no, Nintendo did the right thing because they learned their lesson from Wii U, and to a lesser extent from the New 3DS

It's not about the players, it's about who buys it, and the ones who buy it are parents and adults who aren't always up to date on gaming news.

PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5. That makes sense, you want the latest one? Buy the bigger number.

Wii U? I already have a Wii at the house, the kids don't even use it. It's a tablet? They already have a tablet though.

New 3DS? I already got a DS and they tricked me into the 3DS! I don't even need the 3D feature, that was a waste of money. It's still pretty new, I don't need another new one.

I worked at GameStop all those releases and I can't emphasize just HOW MAY TIMES I had those conversations with customers. Not just parents either, but casual consumers.

Xbox was confusing too eventually.

Nobody got confused on Playstation.

Nintendo Switch (i)

Deluxe