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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Seems the rule is, if you use the same name, just add a number to it, which Nintendo has never done. I.e., Switch 2.

There was DS --> 3DS, albeit with unconventional number placement.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

That said, the Wii U suffered because of a confusing name, and Super Switch might make people think it's just an OLED switch version or something.

Nintendo actually uses theme naming more often than not. Consider:

NES --> SNES
Gameboy --> Gameboy Colour/Virtual Boy --> Gameboy Advance (and the only reason they didn't keep the Gameboy name for the DS was because there was internal concern that it might flop; the plan was to pretend that the DS was its own experimental thing, rather than a Gameboy successor, at least until the DS proved itself).
DS --> 3DS
Wii --> WiiU

The N64, the Gamecube, and the Switch are the only consoles Nintendo has ever made that didn't share a theme name with another console (and the N64 only tenuously belongs in that group, given that the NES and SNES were respectively shortened to Nintendo and Super Nintendo by western audiences).