Switch 2 was almost called the Super Nintendo Switch, but Nintendo felt it „didn’t feel right“ to use the same naming c…
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 The Developer discussion, Switch 2 producer Kouichi Kawamoto discussed how the team landed on the right name for the new console.
„There were a lot of ideas for the name, and we really struggled to find the right one“, he said. „We even considered ideas like ‚Super Nintendo Switch‘. However, Super NES, which came out after the NES, couldn’t play NES games. Since Switch 2 can play Switch games, it didn’t feel right to use the same naming convention as Super NES.
