Nintendo’s subsequent console is upon us — ish? Dubbed the “Swap 2” by people accustomed to Sony unimaginatively including numbers to the top of PlayStation, the following 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 Swap now, or maintain out for a Swap 2, each time it truly hits cabinets? Backward compatibility stays an unknown and never considered one of Nintendo’s historic achievements.
However as gamers who’ve lengthy been glued to the drift-prone hybrid handheld, now we have different questions on our thoughts. Primarily, what’s Nintendo truly calling this factor?
Nintendo shouldn’t be an organization that iterates on the identical idea again and again. It loves a gimmick, and people onerous swerves have led on to naming inspiration. A brand new gaming console that’s a dice? GameCUBE it’s. A conveyable with a twin display? Straightforward: Nintendo DS. Even 3DS and Wii U put a spin on acquainted names primarily based on new expertise. Except Swap 2 is a real successor console like Tremendous Nintendo — and the unique Swap is likely to be excellent sufficient to demand such model allegiance — the identify of the gadget stands as principally unpredictable.
With that in thoughts, as a substitute of attempting to guess what out-of-left-field identify Nintendo would possibly pull out of its hat Cappy, we right here at Polygon discovered ourselves spitballing all the things the corporate nearly undoubtedly is not going to name the Swap 2. Beneath, we humbly submit a listing of horrible next-gen console names for this coveted 2025 launch. If any of those is the precise identify of the console, the excellent news is, Nintendo has time to do even higher.
Unhealthy Swap 2 identify strategies:
Swap Off
2witch
Swiitch (pronounced: Sweetch)
Swiiitch (pronounced: Sweeeeeeetch)
SwUtch
Swap RT
Tremendous Swap**
Tremendous Swap Turbo**
Swtch
New Nintendo Swap Console
Nintendo Swap
Nintendo Click on
Nintendo Stream
Nintendo Labwotch, the totally cardboard handheld
Swap XXL
Swap+
Swap Too
Nintendo Too
SwitcherToo
Nintendo 2?
Recreation Pal
Wee
4DS
GameRectangle
NintenGo
The Nintendo Leisure Switchem
**These are good concepts truly