A list of stupid names for the Switch 2

(*2*)Nintendo’s subsequent console is upon us — ish? Dubbed the “Switch 2” by people accustomed to Sony unimaginatively including numbers to the finish of PlayStation, the subsequent iteration of Mario gaming {hardware} will reportedly arrive in 2025, after a shift in launch window. The delay leaves those that by no means dipped into the current-gen Nintendo catalogue with a tricky determination: Purchase a Switch now, or maintain out for a Switch 2, each time it really hits cabinets? Backward compatibility stays an unknown and never one of Nintendo’s historic achievements.

However as gamers who’ve lengthy been glued to the drift-prone hybrid handheld, we’ve got different questions on our thoughts. Primarily, what’s Nintendo really calling this factor?

Nintendo will not be an organization that iterates on the similar idea again and again. It loves a gimmick, and people laborious swerves have led on to naming inspiration. A new gaming console that’s a dice? GameCUBE it’s. A moveable with a twin display screen? Straightforward: Nintendo DS. Even 3DS and Wii U put a spin on acquainted names primarily based on new know-how. Except Switch 2 is a real successor console like Tremendous Nintendo — and the unique Switch is perhaps excellent sufficient to demand such model allegiance — the identify of the machine stands as mainly unpredictable.

With that in thoughts, as a substitute of attempting to guess what out-of-left-field identify Nintendo may pull out of its hat Cappy, we right here at Polygon discovered ourselves spitballing every thing the firm nearly undoubtedly won’t name the Switch 2. Under, we humbly submit a list of horrible next-gen console names for this coveted 2025 launch. If any of these is the precise identify of the console, the excellent news is, Nintendo has time to do even higher.

Unhealthy Switch 2 identify ideas:

Switch Off

2witch

Swiitch (pronounced: Sweetch)

Swiiitch (pronounced: Sweeeeeeetch)

SwUtch

Switch RT

Tremendous Switch**

Tremendous Switch Turbo**

Swtch

New Nintendo Switch Console

Nintendo Swap

Nintendo Click on

Nintendo Stream

Nintendo Labwotch, the fully cardboard handheld

Switch XXL

Switch+

Switch Too

Nintendo Too

SwitcherToo

Nintendo 2?

Sport Buddy

Wee

4DS

GameRectangle

NintenGo

The Nintendo Leisure Switchem

**These are good concepts really