United Kingdom, April 5 -- The Nintendo Switch 2 was almost called the Super Nintendo Switch.

Fans got a closer look at the upcoming console at yesterday's (02.04.25) Nintendo Direct, and Switch 2 producer Kouichi Kawamoto has revealed it could have been called the Super Nintendo Switch name - but the name was ultimately scrapped because it "didn't feel right" to use the same naming convention as the SNES because of the Switch 2's backwards compatibility.

As part of discussions for 'Ask the Developer Vol. 16: Nintendo Switch 2 - Part 4', Kawamoto explained: "There were a lot of ideas for the name, and we really struggled to find the right one.

"We even considered ideas like 'Super Nintendo Switch', However, Super NES (25), which came o...