oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agoNintendo Switch 2 should have been called Super Nintendo Switchmessage-squaremessage-square112linkfedilinkarrow-up1513arrow-down114
arrow-up1499arrow-down1message-squareNintendo Switch 2 should have been called Super Nintendo Switchoni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square112linkfedilink
minus-squareDefault Username@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoNintendo when naming their next console: Yamauchi: “Hey Shigeru, what should we name our next console?” Miyamoto: “No idea. Anyway, I was thinking about going to the aquarium, you wanna join?” Yamauchi: “Perfect! We’ll call it the Dolphin!” Miyamoto: “…What?”
minus-squareforestbeasts@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoAnd then the Wii is ‘Revolution’ (see: RVL-* in the model numbers of everything) which, yeah, it pretty much was. – Frost
Nintendo when naming their next console:
Yamauchi: “Hey Shigeru, what should we name our next console?”
Miyamoto: “No idea. Anyway, I was thinking about going to the aquarium, you wanna join?”
Yamauchi: “Perfect! We’ll call it the Dolphin!”
Miyamoto: “…What?”
And then the Wii is ‘Revolution’ (see: RVL-* in the model numbers of everything) which, yeah, it pretty much was.
– Frost