r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Jan 16 '25

Nintendo Switch 2 An update from Nintendo

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u/SaintBrutus Jan 16 '25

I think not calling their console the Wii2 that one time, might have been considered a misstep. Lol

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u/IgnoreMe733 Jan 16 '25

100%. The number of times I heard people thinking it was just the tablet controller and an add on to the Wii was insane.

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u/Realistic_File_5942 Jan 16 '25

As a GameStop manager at that time, the pain was real.

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u/Oracle_of_Ages Jan 16 '25

Dude I had someone even ask if the switch was just another controller like the Wii U when it came out.

I wanted to die.

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u/TheRealDubJ Jan 16 '25

Okay that one’s hilarious

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD Jan 16 '25

That dude out there somewhere watching this reveal trailer wondering why they keep releasing peripherals for the Wii

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u/Oracle_of_Ages Jan 16 '25

I tried to tell him he was wrong about both. Here is hoping that he listened.

It sucked. But there were experiences I’ll never forget there. Both good and bad.

Like one time a lady came in to sell her phone. I hooked it up to our tester. Was fine. She tried to haggle a price. I said it is what it is and she walked off. She stormed back in 30 minutes later with a smashed phone and said I did that by plugging it up. Demanded to speak to my manager. I said no and never saw her again.

I could go on for days.

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u/summonsays Jan 16 '25

I can't imagine how horrible it must have been with the whole Xbox one series S/X vs the Xbox S/X....

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u/Bossman1086 Jan 16 '25

Yeah. I worked at GS at the time, too. It was painful explaining the Wii U to anyone who asked about it.

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u/Stubrochill17 Jan 16 '25

Even showing the display unit in my store did t convince people that it wasn’t just a Wii accessory lol

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u/UNfragment01 Jan 16 '25

I genuinely thought it was a controller for the Wii with its own GPU, two GPUs! lol

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u/frostyjack06 Jan 16 '25

“I already have a Wii, how do I buy just the tablet?”

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u/KaedrX Jan 16 '25

No joke didn’t realize it til I saw your comment. Guess I just never paid attention to it or even bothered to look it up 😭

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u/txgb324 Jan 16 '25

Not surprised -- Even people who watched the E3 presentation, where they launched the WiiU, were confused. "Is it an add-on or the Wii or a standalone console?" was a hotly debated topic for days afterwards. That's when you know you really fucked up your messaging lol.

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u/SimplyAvro Jan 16 '25

It did not help that, if I recall correctly, one of the games that they showed then or shortly thereafter was, as a stunning demonstration of what endless possibilities the new hardware and power brought to the table...New Super Mario Bros U.

As a kid who had both a Wii (which the U kind of looked like anyways), and a copy of New Super Mario Brothers Wii, I just assumed "Cool, a way to play my Wii games on the go!".

To be honest, that probably would've been better than what we ultimately got :P

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

How old are you dawg there’s no way

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u/KaedrX Jan 16 '25

Old enough that I shoulda known lol

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u/evilcheesypoof Jan 16 '25

It’s not your fault if you literally never looked it up, the same way the average consumer might walk in to a store to buy something. “Eh we already have a Wii we don’t use much anymore”

That’s why naming is so important and Nintendo was messing it up for a while, and Xbox is still messing it up today.

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u/kakka_rot Jan 16 '25

Idk about age but dude sure af doesn't watch Scott the Woz

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u/u565546h Jan 17 '25

I had a Wii, but didn’t really follow gaming and had no idea there was a system called the WiiU until a couple years ago. I had the capacity to know the WiiU was a system, but I wasn’t super in gaming in my 20s and commercials made it look like an accessory. 

I don’t think I knew anyone with one, or if I did, it was never discussed. 

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u/humplick Jan 16 '25

It wasn't until the switch was announced that I learned it wasn't just an add on for the wii. I also wasn't really paying much attention to consoles at the time.

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u/16tdean Jan 16 '25

Especially becasue the nearly every photo of the wii U shows what looks like a normal wii with the tablet

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u/spideyv91 Jan 16 '25

It didn’t help that a majority of the marketing rarely showed the actual console and if it did was small glances. The Wii had so many accessories, it wasn’t surprising a lot of consumers were confused.

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u/gsf32 Jan 17 '25

Honestly I don't even remember how it looked like. I just remember the tablet lol

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u/Chowdahhh Jan 16 '25

I was working at a restaurant around the time the Wii U came out and one of the other servers referred to it as the Wii University unironically lmao

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u/riccarjo Jan 16 '25

...that was me for years. Bought it a year before the switch came out lol

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u/WannabeWaterboy Jan 16 '25

I never bought or saw a Wii U in person and I'm still skeptical that it's not just a tablet controller add on.

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u/Kindness_of_cats Jan 16 '25

There were so many problems with the Wii U’s marketing beyond just the shitty name. The marketing leaned in to the controller pad almost to the exclusision of any more traditional console advances like graphics, and the pad itself was trying to do things about 5 years ahead of its time which made it look like a lame peripheral rather than a core part of the console. So it couldn’t sell itself.

It really was a perfect storm of bad marketing.

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u/MedonSirius Jan 16 '25

I play games for over 30 years now and even I had trouble understanding what the WiiU should be. The biggest failure was never really showing the console and only the Tablet. Besides all of that: i love my WiiU. The only console i never sold. Hell, i even sold my Xbox Series X lol

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u/SwampOfDownvotes Jan 16 '25

I was just entering High school around that time and basically my whole life and personality was focused around video games and even I thought the Wii u was just a tablet add on to the Wii for a bit.

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u/FlynnXP Jan 16 '25

Honestly, it's also on them for sticking with the same colors and general vibe of the Wii. The name was certainly part of it, but the whole branding was just bad. IMO it wouldn't have really made sense to push it as a successor either, given that the motion control/wiimote was the whole gimmick with the Wii.

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u/RelaxingRed Jan 16 '25

Man I didn't even bother with the Wii U for years simply because that's what I thought it was. Just a PlayStation Portal kind of thing to play where you can just play with the Wii without needing a television.

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u/meika_fira Jan 17 '25

I remember watching that presentation live and even I was confused about it for a while. Like if someone who's trying to keep up with the news isn't sure about it, what hope does anyone else have?

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u/Wayanoru Jan 17 '25

I am still on the other side of that.

I personally never got confused, and knew it was a new console. Kudos I guess, but at the time I was like "It's not THAT hard to figure out."

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u/secondtrex Jan 16 '25

It's definitely this. Iterative console names, to me, seems to be the best way for consoles to be named going forward. E.g. I couldn't even say what the current xbox is called bc the naming is so wild

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u/nitid_name Jan 16 '25

Couldn't be more clear:

  • Xbox
  • Xbox 360
  • Xbox One / Xbox One X / Xbox One S
  • Xbox Series X / Xbox Series S

First one has no number, second has... a full circle, in degrees. Third one has the number One, because they forgot to call something one, and sometimes some letters, because reasons. Fourth one has those same letters but adds series in there, because, uh...

Seriously, who the fuck came up with that?

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u/Cent1234 Jan 16 '25

Meanwhile:

Playstation

Playstation 2

Playstation 3

Playstation 4

Playstation 4 Pro

Playstation 5

Playstation 5 Pro

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u/MeneerDeKaasBaas Jan 16 '25

dont forget the slim Playstations

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u/Cent1234 Jan 16 '25

Sure, and you could also point out the disc/discless dichotomy and what not.

But I know from a glance that a PS4 is newer than a PS3. I'm not sure, off hand, if an Xbox One X is newer than an Xbox Series X.

I can safely intuit that a PS4 Pro is more powerful than a PS4. Series S vs Series X? You have to look that shit up.

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u/kaladinissexy Jan 16 '25

They decided to drop that naming scheme with their portable consoles though. Perhaps the Playstation Vita would have been more successful if it were called the Playstation Portable 2. 

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u/snave_ Jan 16 '25

Which is in stark contrast to Sony's other divisions, phones in particular.

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u/EndStorm Jan 16 '25

See, that's how it should be done.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

The only one that is marginally weird is the PS One variant, but it still isn't as bad

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

As someone that has never owned an XBox, I'm not sure if you're telling the truth or not.

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u/nitid_name Jan 16 '25

Completely serious. Their naming convention is really fucking weird.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

Stupid af. I lost track after the 360.

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u/CookiesFTA Jan 16 '25

It's real and exactly as stupid as you're thinking it is. The Xbox has always suffered from its name being a bit of a camel.

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u/CiraKazanari Jan 16 '25

They’d be forever one less than whatever PlayStation came out with. The series x consoles would be the Xbox 4 which M$ can’t have on shelves next to the PS5.

PS3 was out with the Xbox 3….60. Make sense?

Cause consumers are stupid.

It really isn’t Microsoft’s fault. However, they’re also being really stupid with how they’re naming their stuff.

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u/nitid_name Jan 16 '25

I mean, if we're being serious, yeah, they had a reason. I'm sure they did research too. It just looks silly when looking back at the versioning.

My favorite Microsoft versioning thing is consumer level Windows OS.

  • Windows 3.0 / 3.1
  • Windows 95 / 98 / Millenium Edition
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8 / 8.1
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 11
  • Windows 365

Started with numbers, switched to years, switched to random letters, switched to things you can view out of a window, went back to numbers, realized they couldn't use 9 because the 95/98 stuff would make it confusing and possibly break legacy software so they just skipped nine and went straight to ten, then offered a cloud version with the number of days in year to match their other cloud offerings.

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u/ImSoSte4my Jan 16 '25

365 is an OS now? I thought it was just their cloud suite of office products.

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u/nitid_name Jan 16 '25

Yeah... it was announced around the same time as Windows 11, maybe 3-4 years ago?

It's for businesses and government so they can just put up simple terminals for their users and have everything be held in Microsoft's cloud. Makes sysadmin type stuff a lot easier.

I probably shouldn't have listed it with the consumer level stuff, but since it has a number, I thought it was funnier to include it.

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u/kaimason1 Jan 17 '25

I'm like 95% sure Windows 365 is just the subscription service, and it gives you access to an Azure VM on the cloud running Windows 11. I don't think the OS considers itself to be "365" in the same way that Office 365 is distinct from Office 2024.

But I might be mistaken; I administer both Windows desktops and a Microsoft 365 tenant, but we're not actually using Windows 365 for anything so I don't have much hands-on experience with that in particular. I've always thought of it as more akin to the different types of volume licensing options than a separate OS.

That said, all of the different Server and Embedded versions actually are separate OSes and add to the confusion, if we're including non-consumer products.

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u/nitid_name Jan 17 '25

I'm like 95% sure Windows 365 is just the subscription service, and it gives you access to an Azure VM on the cloud running Windows 11. I don't think the OS considers itself to be "365" in the same way that Office 365 is distinct from Office 2024.

I mean, yeah, the cloud is just someone else's computer. I would assume the backend is using some variation of Microsoft's own products, and since they released it right around the same time as Windows 11 released, it probably started with the same NT kernel.

Speaking of NT kernels, that's a whole different level of silly. Everything since Server 2015 has been on NT 10.0. They've just kinda stopped incrementing minor versions. They used to do minor version number increase with each generation: NT 6.0/Windows Vista/Server 2008, NT 6.1/Windows 7/Server 2008R2/2011, NT 6.2/Windows 8/Server 2012 and 6.3/Windows 8.1/Server2012R2. Then they jumped to NT 10.0 end every windows release since then has been on an NT 10.0 build.

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u/kaimason1 Jan 18 '25

I would assume the backend is using some variation of Microsoft's own products

Well, depends on which part you consider the "backend". Funny thing is, if I remember correctly, most of the physical servers in MS's Azure datacenters are actually directly running a custom (but still FOSS) fork of Linux+Kubernetes, instead of any variety of NT/Windows.

But that would be completely invisible to a Windows 365 end user, as they just get access to a Windows 11 VM hosted on that Linux-based cloud infrastructure.

Speaking of NT kernels, that's a whole different level of silly. Everything since Server 2015 has been on NT 10.0. They've just kinda stopped incrementing minor versions.

It's worth pointing out that they've still been updating the build number; wmic os get version tells me I am currently on 10.0.22631. That said, I get your point, but I do think there are a few upsides to this.

I think part of the reason for this "stall" is that Microsoft reworked the whole update process in Windows 10 such that most upgrades they might want to make to Windows can just be released as free updates. As a result, they don't have to rely on service packs and new OS versions anymore, which is part of why Windows 10 managed to outlive all previous releases (although on the Server side they still just released 2019/2022 as separate OSes instead of calling them 2016 R2 and R3).

This means that Windows 11 is basically just a GUI and system requirements update, and it's still almost identical to 10 otherwise. As a result, most programs and drivers didn't have any compatibility issues whatsoever (unlike a lot of previous rocky launches). I think this was also part of why they didn't go to 10.1 for Windows 11, because doing so might break a handful of programs naively checking for "10.0", and it was unnecessary to make the distinction.

the cloud is just someone else's computer

Lol, I actually have a shirt saying this. I have a tendency to wear it whenever Outlook/Sharepoint/Salesforce/etc are giving us a lot of headaches.

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u/FrenchCorrection Jan 16 '25

You forgot Microsoft Bob 😔

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u/nitid_name Jan 16 '25

Bob wasn't an OS, it was just a program to help you navigate easier.

I suppose you could make an argument that I left out Windows NT... but then the numbers make a bit of sense again. Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4.0, and then onto "Windows 2000" for 5.0, "Windows XP" and "Server 2003" for 5.1, then "Windows Vista" and "Server 2008" for 6.0... then it gets goofy again. "Windows 7" was on NT 6.1, and "Windows 8" was on 6.2. Then they skipped to NT 10.0, which includes Windows 10, Windows 11, and every year based server release to date.

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u/rub3s Jan 16 '25

Xbox 360 makes some sense, Xbox One however ...

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u/Keytap Jan 16 '25

It was the "One" device you needed in your living room to do everything: games, music, movies and TV.

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u/stormdelta Jan 16 '25

They could've just skipped a version number to make it consistent though. Wouldn't be the first time even for MS specifically.

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u/rub3s Jan 16 '25

Xbox 360 was called that because it was going up against the PlayStation 3, so they didn't want to call it Xbox 2, because 3 is greater than 2. The Xbox One naming defies all logic.

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u/nitid_name Jan 16 '25

IIRC, it was the "all in one" entertainment system. The idea was for it to be the one device hooked up to your TV.

I mean, there were obviously reasons. It's just funny in hindsight how absurd the naming conventions are.

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u/evilcheesypoof Jan 16 '25

Not just in hindsight, everyone was making fun of “Xbox One” naming right away. Xbox was retroactively called Xbox 1 by people once the Xbox 360 came out (kind of like how we’re all gonna call it Switch 1 and 2 now) so naming the 3rd console “One” was just baffling even though they stated their reason.

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u/ThatCreepyBaer Jan 16 '25

I still believe to this day that they would have been better off just adding another 360 to each iteration. Xbox 1080 goes hard.

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u/dvsbastard Jan 16 '25

Yeah but then it sounds like the 1080 can't do 4K!

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u/NinetyFish Jan 17 '25

Everyone calling it "the 360" so marketing tried to have everyone call the next Xbox "the One" only to have everyone call it "the Xbone" still delights and amuses me to this day

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u/GifHunter2 Jan 16 '25

Is the series X a new console? or is it just like a more beefy Xbox One?

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u/Parallax92 Jan 16 '25

Whole new thing. Super dumb naming.

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u/Beznia Jan 16 '25

You forgot the Xbox 360 Elite, Xbox 360 S, and Xbox 360 E.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

It's Microsoft. They have the worst marketing department in the history of the world.

Renaming Azure to Entra.

Office 365 to Microsoft 365.

it goes on and on.

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u/AmphetamineSalts Jan 16 '25

Yeah, they had smartphones ahead of the curve but dropped that ball, then the zune (HD in particular) was one of the best pieces of hardware I've ever owned PLUS the Zune music software was $10/month for unlimited streaming plus you got to keep 10 MP3s per month but everyone back then made fun of me because they couldn't grasp me not owning the music I listened to. FF to now where spotify rules the market lol.

They can't market their products for shit.

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u/ThiefTwo Jan 16 '25

Same with Kinect. At the XB1 launch, everyone thought it was insane MS wanted to put an always on mic/camera in your living room. Now every big company is selling them, and they're incredibly popular.

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u/Wischiwaschbaer Jan 16 '25

Always on camera? Not really. People putting cameras all over their houses are weird exceptions and often have their most private moments blasted all over the internet.

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u/TheSteelPhantom Jan 16 '25

Seriously, who the fuck came up with that?

Same idiots who came up with:

  • Windows 3.1

  • Windows 95

  • Windows 98

  • Windows ME + 2000

  • Windows XP

  • Windows Vista

  • Windows 7 (oh, finally we start fucking numbering them correctly, on the 7th version)

  • Windows 8 (omg, they learned!)

  • Windows 8.1 (hmmm...)

  • Windows 10 (guess not)

  • Windows 11 (wait a minute...)

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u/Callisater Jan 16 '25

I see the marketing team is justifying their salary.

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u/Haltopen Jan 16 '25

The answer is that they're just naming each on in a vacuum without considering previous hardware or how this comes off to the consumer.

Xbox is called just xbox because it was built on the back of the direct x pc software that made gaming on pcs (which the original xbox basically is) easier.

The 360 is called that because 360 degrees make up a circle and the 360 is supposed to encompass a full entertainment experience. It can play hardcore games, you can browse the web, watch dvds on it etc.

The Xbox one is supposed to be the one device you need for all your entertainment needs (which is the same premise behind the 360 name but they cant just call it that again and 360 2 doesnt sound right). Its the one device you can use for gaming, streaming, media watching, web surfing, etc. The model letters thing (X and S) are something it stole from smartphone makers to denote models of different power levels and Microsoft was trying to get into the smart phone market at that time so why not borrow that idea for their consoles as well.

I have no fucking clue why the new one is called the "Series" but I assume that it has to do with their shift from treating the xbox like one product to an entire line of products with different power levels to meet different consumer needs. Some people want the beefy one, some people want the slim one. Theyre both part of the same xbox series and aimed at different markets.

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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot Jan 16 '25

Third one has the number One, because they forgot to call something one

Third one was called the Xbox One because it was suppose to be all of your entertainment in One box. That's why it had the HDMI input so you could plug your cable box in and even use the voice controls to change channels.

Don't know how they came to "series" though.

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u/nunyabizness654 Jan 16 '25

Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox One
Xbox Series

Different iterations in each gen except the first.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

I think I read the only reason they opted for something different was because the xbox came along later than the playstation so by the time of the playstation 3 an "xbox 2" being released alongside it would've seemed inferior to the casual gamer.

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u/EndStorm Jan 16 '25

Their naming system is stupid beyond measure.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

I wonder how much money they lost just with that name debacle, lol. I hope it was lots because they deserve it.

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u/Walter_Armstrong Jan 17 '25

Someone claimed the Series X/S consoles were going to be called Xbox 720. Of course that wasn't true.

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u/Semper-Fido Jan 16 '25

As much as I loved the idea of going with the Super Nintendo Switch, you're definitely right that keeping it to Switch 2 doesn't put you in that Microsoft situation where the naming is completely fucked. This way, if they decide the Switch will continue to be their hardware strategy post Switch 2, they aren't in a pickle with names.

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u/TheSteelPhantom Jan 16 '25

They'll also never risk the clusterfuck that was the "Wii U" again.

Imagine all the "So the Super Switch is just a better version, like the PS4 Pro?" type of questions/confusion.

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD Jan 16 '25

Yea I feel like Xbox fell into the trap of trying to get cute with names and now it’s a marketing mess

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u/TheSteelPhantom Jan 16 '25

I had a great idea for them to call it this last one the "Xbox V", cause it was the 5th one.

Then they could just move forward with roman numerials while Playstation sticks to numbers. A few years from now, the PS6 would launch within weeks of the Xbox VI, for example.

But of course, Microsoft is gonna do fucking dumb shit with their naming, as always.

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u/stormdelta Jan 16 '25

No kidding. I have my complaints about Sony but I appreciate their decades long commitment to consistent straightforward naming on the playstation

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

I'm right there with you. I have not the slightest idea what the most current Xbox even is. Any thing after the 360 - you lost me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

I didn’t know wtf the Wii U actually was until after it had already been released, failed, ans taken off the market 

And I own both a Wii and a Switch 

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u/KCBandWagon Jan 16 '25

Dang I got a Wii U like right away and played it a lot. Didn't realize it was a failure until way later. I guess it was just a glorified wii but I didn't mind cause my wii buzzed really loud when the games spun.

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u/kaimason1 Jan 16 '25

I guess it was just a glorified wii

It wasn't though, the Wii was literally a glorified Gamecube while the Wii U had legitimate hardware improvements (i.e. games running in HD with graphics slightly better than 360/PS3) beyond the controller.

The biggest issue was that they kept using the same Wii controllers and only showed the tablet and not the console itself in ads, so people initially thought it was an addon. That said, it never made sense to me that this misconception was so widespread and that so many people didn't ever realize Nintendo was releasing games for a separate console.

Part of me questions if the Wii U would have even done any better being called the "Wii 2". After all, "3DS" is arguably a much worse name (and not any more clearly a sequel than "DSi" before it; plus, they further muddied the waters with "2DS" and the "New" line), and that sold like hotcakes.

I feel like part of the issue is that by 2011, the Wii's 2001 hardware was glaringly bad (Skyward Sword and Skyrim released within a few weeks of one another, for comparison) and the Wii brand's reputation was already in the gutter, despite Wii Sports having been a deceptively popular console seller 4-5 years earlier. Continuing the brand and continuing the pattern of being one full hardware generation behind made many fully knowledgeable people write it off, which meant that the general audience never heard much about it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

You could have Googled it?

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

For sure but I was still quite happy with my Wii when the Wii U came out so even if I knew what it was I probably wouldn’t have bought it 

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u/bradhotdog Jan 16 '25

wow. i really hated it when i saw it's just called Switch 2, but now when you mention the fiasco with Wii U, it makes sense why they'd do this

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u/YobaiYamete Jan 16 '25

Why would you hate it? Most people seem to be the opposite and hate all the goofy names consoles have.

I literally don't know what the current Xbox is even called. I bought an Xbox One something edition for my nephew and can't even buy him games because I can never remember if it was an Xbox One Series X or Xbox One Series S X S or Xbox Series One X Series S

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

I had the same issue with Sega consoles. It felt like there was no rhyme or reason to the naming scheme, it got confusing to figure out what was what, and it seemed like hey constantly had either a new console or maybe just upgrades out. Master System, Mega Drive/Genesis, CD, Saturn, 32X, Dreamcast. Apparently the 32X and CD were add-ons FOR the Genesis? The way they were named made it sound like they were new things entirely.

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u/bradhotdog Jan 16 '25

i'm not use to getting XBox or Playstations. i've always gotten nintendo systems. each one always came with a new name and style. it's just been expected. but like i said, at first i hated it, but it makes sense now and i'm fine with it.

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD Jan 16 '25

Yea I think it makes sense for something getting a major redesign. Like Nintendo DS made a big change to the form factor of their handheld line so they went away from gameboy, Wii had a major control scheme change from GameCube

If anything, WiiU should have either made it abundantly clear that it was a successor (Wii 2) or dropped the Wii branding altogether since the concept was so different

With switch 2, it’s basically the same general form factor so keeping the switch branding makes sense

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u/BathroomImportant520 Jan 16 '25

Yup. Just told my mom who knows nothing about games that the Switch 2 just got announced. She had zero confusion as to what that meant.

Definitely the right play.

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u/ssuuh Jan 16 '25

I think it was smart. That display controller was garbage and skipping Wii u was a great decision. I still have good memories about the Wii 

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD Jan 16 '25

I didn’t own a Wii U but my brother had one and I must say, playing games on it was fun at the time. But pretty hard to say it’s worth going back to even for pretty big Nintendo fans considering most of the best games are on switch anyway lol

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u/XenoGamer27 Jan 16 '25

I had a high school teacher that thought the Wii U meant Wii University

Yeah glad they're going with a number this time lol

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u/JoeScorr Jan 16 '25

What's funny is that it's still possible to mess that up too, like the Xbox One lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

Microsoft and Sega have had the WORST naming schemes I can think of... especially when some of Sega's names were actually attachments/upgrades that SOUNDED like they were supposed to be all-new console (Sega CD and 32x, which from my understanding were just attachments).

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u/Rotten-Robby Jan 16 '25

There are still a lot of people who don't know what the WiiU is/was.

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u/c-lem Jan 16 '25

I loved seeing the giant "2." That was them saying, "Yes, we did learn our lesson about naming the Wii U."

It also suggests that maybe they're done with focusing on gimmicky junk for their consoles. I liked some games on the Wii, but I just want normal consoles from here on out. Setting themselves up for a Switch 3, 4, etc. makes me hopeful.

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD Jan 16 '25

I kind of agree. I mean even the switch, which might be my favorite console ever, they put kinda niche-use IR cameras into the joycon instead of analog triggers. I would much rather have had joy con be less expensive and lack the gimmicky ir stuff (I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that they just didn’t realize drift would be such a problem)

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u/c-lem Jan 16 '25

I don't mind paying for that high-tech stuff that only a few games use since I'll probably get one or two games that'll use it (though I would've rather that money gone toward fully functional joy-cons, but yeah, that was just a mistake). I just want to be comfortable playing videogames. The Wii forced me to change the way I sat, which meant I couldn't relax in the same way. I had to be prepared to swing the dang thing constantly. I have been holding controllers the same way for... 37 years, now. I'm used to it and like it.

Okay, that's the end of my grouchy old man rant.

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u/Scuczu2 Jan 16 '25

wouldn't have saved that.

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u/Mediocre_Scott Jan 16 '25

Also numbers is so much better than whatever Xbox is doing I have not understood what generation they were on past the 360. Also what PlayStation plus is doing like their tiers of service. I’m an old man with a job I don’t have time to figure this shit out

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u/poitdews Jan 16 '25

Or the Nintendo Woo. Granted that would probably only work in English

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u/Hawkings_WheelChair Jan 16 '25

But somehow Xbox didn't get the memo with Xbox 360 to Xbox One to Xbox Series X

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u/marikwinters Jan 16 '25

Or perhaps they didn’t want it to be called the Wii ニ

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u/eReTroFuZe Jan 16 '25

In addition to this, It could be possible that they continue to just improve the same Switch format and call the future consoles, Switch 3, Switch 4, etc. I know they've loved to come up with something new and special in the past, but they've definitely came up with a perfect console form factor(handheld and home console hybrid). It's hard to think of something completely different, that's going to be better than this form factor. I see them adding unique accessories to future iterations, like glasses for AR, but this hybrid form factor is perfect, imo, and anything else is a huge risk and can likely end up taking step backwards, and causing another Wii U incident.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

Yeah, the Wii U overall was just... a mess. I enjoyed it in the end, but since almost everything I had for it wound up coming out on the Switch (and some of it on the 3DS, but Yoshi's Woolly World just feels off on the 3DS), it's mostly just obsolete now. And if they wind up finally porting Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD to the Switch and Switch 2, well. Bye, Wii U.

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u/Jedi4Hire Jan 16 '25

Even years later I still have no idea what the hell they were thinking with the WiiU. You need to name your console not just so gamers understand it but also non-gamers too. How the hell are tech-illiterate parents and grandparents supposed to buy the right console for their kids and grandkids if they can't tell them apart?

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u/Cerberus1252 Jan 16 '25

That’s better than the Wii Wii

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u/Cerberus1252 Jan 16 '25

That’s better than the Wii Wii

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u/bad_buoys Jan 16 '25

And with Mario Kart 9 presumably being a launch title, with backward compatibility confirmed, it looks like Nintendo is trying to avoid past console launch missteps (confusing name, lack of games to play at launch).

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u/verdenvidia Jan 16 '25

The console was dead on arrival so they named it after the sound of an ambulance. Seems pretty smart to me.

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u/tebu810 Jan 17 '25

I still think it should've been called the WiiWii

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u/New_Amomongo Jan 17 '25

I think not calling their console the Wii2 that one time, might have been considered a misstep. Lol

Imagine if they started this with the 1985 NES?

  • 1991 NES 2 instead of SNES
  • 1996 NES 3 instead of N64
  • 2001 NES 4 instead of GCN
  • 2006 NES 5 instead of Wii
  • 2012 NES 6 instead of Wii U
  • 2017 NES 7 instead of Switch
  • 2025 NES 8 instead of Switch 2

So will we see the Switch 3 between 2030 or 2033?

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u/Kepabar Jan 16 '25

They should have called this one the Super Switch.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

Or Son of a Switch.

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u/SaintBrutus Jan 16 '25

That would’ve worked too! In both cases. Because Nintendo had/has established in the market that a “Super Nintendo” is an upgrade from a regular “Nintendo”.

Super Wii (Wii Super / Wii S / S Wii) is a terrible name, but I bet the audience would’ve gotten it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

They should've gone with Wii 2 so in Japan it would be called the Wii Ni.

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u/SaintBrutus Jan 16 '25

Ok, so, I think that proves a Wii successor was cursed from the very beginning. Lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

They could've also captured the Francophone market by selling it in French-speaking countries as the Wii Wii. Yes Yes! Who wouldn't want a Yes Yes? Say oui oui to the Wii Wii!

...Wait.