Because the company is named Nintendo, not Super Nintendo.

The SNES was the Nintendo Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Xbox started looking at 14yo's gamer tags and thought that was a good naming convention:

"XboxoneX"

I'm still not over the fact that not ONE person at Microsoft said "Really? We're calling it the XBone?"

I have literally not once ever seen it referred to as such.

or the switch U

Go full 80s.

Switch Turbo: Radical Edition

Wii-U just sounds dumb cuz they gave no thought. Wii was a headscratcher but I didn't have it mapped to anything IRL that I would confuse it with. #ForeverAlone

Yeah, no one ever has. But that's what it was called.

Which is why I said it to your previous comment. If you wanna circle back to what you already said, and then to my response, it makes more sense 👍

Why do you assume that them using the name meant no one noticed? There's a non-zero chance the person who came up with the name was trolling the company and deliberately set that up. Stranger things have happened, like the phalluses on the Little Mermaid poster art.

There's also a chance that some marketing people came up with it, higher ups liked it, then didn't appreciate anyone pointing out the name they like had a potentially embarrassing abbreviation and would respond negatively to that. Or maybe they already had a culture of people pointing out things like that getting flak for it and anyone who noticed just stayed quiet. Hell, I could easily see that kind of culture being established when people objected to all the actual deliberate anti-features MS has been adding over the years.

Pfft. You say that like anyone needed more than 64k of addressable memory. Chrome wasn't released for another 13 years after Win95.

Out of the big three, Nintendo is the only one that hasn't had an x86/x64 based console.

And then the Wii is 'Revolution' (see: RVL-* in the model numbers of everything) which, yeah, it pretty much was.

-- Frost

the theory i like to believe is they saw everyone call the xbox 360 "the 360" so they assumed if they called the new xbox the xbox one everyone would call it "the one"