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.
