Following right this moment’s hour-long Nintendo Change 2 Direct, the corporate has continued to publish new details about the console and its upcoming video games. This post-Direct information feed included a sequence of interviews with the folks behind the creation of the $450 console—launching in June—and from these, we realized that the upcoming hybrid gaming system wasn’t at all times known as Change 2.
In a newly printed interview on Nintendo’s official web site, Change 2 producer Kouichi Kawamoto and Change 2 director Takuhiro Dohta mentioned how they settled on the upcoming console’s identify. And so they revealed that at one level they nearly known as it the Tremendous Nintendo Change.
“There have been plenty of concepts for the identify, and we actually struggled to seek out the suitable one,” mentioned Kawamoto.
“We even thought of concepts like ‘Tremendous Nintendo Change.’ Nevertheless, Tremendous NES, which got here out after the NES, couldn’t play NES video games. Since Change 2 can play Change video games, it didn’t really feel proper to make use of the identical naming conference as Tremendous NES.”
Kawamoto additional defined that Nintendo doesn’t need folks to deal with the console’s specs however moderately to easily “consider it as the most recent system developed by Nintendo” and added that the corporate hopes it turns into the “new customary.”
“From the start of improvement,” mentioned Dohta, “We wished Change 2 to be a system that may be loved by all kinds of gamers. This hasn’t modified from Change to Change 2. I additionally wished to create an expertise that as many gamers as attainable may get pleasure from, moderately than an expertise made specifically for individuals who desire high-performance {hardware}.”
Dohta says Nintendo’s plan is that the Change 2 identify will “talk merely” to prospects that if you would like a Change, effectively, the Change 2 is the most recent and finest model.
“We actually struggled as a result of there have been so many various concepts,” admitted Dohta. However ultimately, after a number of backwards and forwards, all of us agreed that it ought to be Nintendo Change 2 in spite of everything.”
You’re studying a part of Kotaku’s ongoing protection of the Change 2 Nintendo Direct. Verify our roundup for extra information from the showcase together with launch video games, pricing info, launch date, pre-order info, and what that mysterious C button Nintendo retains teasing really does.
We’ll be persevering with to replace tales with information and evaluation all through the day as Nintendo pulls again the curtain on its most anticipated console launch ever. You’ll find extra particulars about right this moment’s Change 2 Direct and Nintendo on-line Treehouse Reside demos occurring all through the week right here.
