this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
92 points (90.4% liked)

Gaming

19967 readers
64 users here now

Sub for any gaming related content!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

How is that tradition? It happened one time. Successor name suffixes and prefixes used: super, color, advance, mini, 64, i, 3, new, u. It could be anything.

Edit: ah no, there was also super game boy, I guess that's the only one they repeated. But that was specifically for super NES compatibility.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Switch

Super Switch

Switch 64

Switch i

New Switch

Switch U

These are all confirmed by the comment above!

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Mechanite@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago
[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Do "i", "mini" and "new" really count as new consoles? i and new were just upgrades to the same console, I believe, and I'm not sure what "Mini" was even for..

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Uh, there was a GameBoy Micro, but that's the closest that comes to mind.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

Oops yes I meant the micro, not mini

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, they were direct successors. I imagine the next console won't be something completely different than the switch, so I imagine I will be some sort of switch 2.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

None of those were direct successors, though