Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch

So another six years of fractured marketing, where you need a spreadsheet to know if the game you want to buy will run on your device. Is it for the Switch, the Switch 2, the Switch 2 Advanced, or the Switch 2 Advanced S AI Cloud VR?

For all the things Nintendo does wrong, I feel like this isn't one of them.

There wasn't a Switch Advanced/Pro or anything like that though. There's the Switch and Switch Lite, the Lite can't attach to a TV and the controllers are fused to the system.

The Switch thankfully avoided this, but there when the "New 3DS" came out, there were a handful of games that only worked on that hardware revision.

I think Microsoft suffer worse for this, not only with the bizarre console names, but also their cloud gaming packages.

Unless they choose some stupid name other than "Switch 2".

People understand Playstation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 just fine so that simply isn't true.

Also consumer confusion is not a good excuse to ignore having backwards compatibility.

I can just see them snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by calling this thing something stupid like "Switch U" or "SwIItch" confusing the hell out of consumers again.

But, you can still pair most types of extra controllers to it (including a set of Joycons), and the eShop is aware of games the few games that can only be played on a tv and warns of incompatibility.

Plus the Switch OLED, which was the Switch but switchier.