The Nintendo Switch 2 nearly had a very different name, in what would have been a 30-year throwback. Following on from the ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct revealed a lot about the new console, but there are plenty more details out there you might not have heard.

Nintendo devs have revealed they considered calling the Switch 2 the Super Nintendo Switch and explained why they decided against it.

In an interview, Switch 2 producer Kouichi Kawamoto revealed why Nintendo stopped short of giving the console a name reminiscent of the Super NES: Super NES, which came out after the NES ...

The final SNES game that was released for the Nintendo console is being remade in the modern era for modern platforms. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System — as it is formally called — was ...

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 ...

Instead, they opted to name it the Nintendo Switch 2. As Dohta noted, this name would further highlight that this would be ...