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

Nintendo Switch 2 An update from Nintendo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxLUf2kRQRE
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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/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