Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
by reshlo on Thursday January 16, 2025 @12:49PM
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A&W tried to make a 1/3 pound burger to compete with the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder but it failed because people thought it was smaller, because 3 is smaller than 4.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fr...
Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
by astrange on Thursday January 16, 2025 @05:33PM
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The last time I was in Canada they were selling something inexplicably named the "Teen Burger".
Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
by stocknoob on Thursday January 16, 2025 @06:39PM
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Why’d they give up? They should have just made a 1/5 pound burger.
Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
by staticman2 on Thursday January 16, 2025 @12:59PM
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They can't call it the <something else> Box because they don't want people to think of it as a Microsoft Device.
Nintendo can go from Nintendo 3DS to Nintendo Switch because the brand is Nintendo.
Microsoft clearly considers the brand "Microsoft" to be poison ivy to gamers, and always brands their gaming hardware as "Xbox" as if that were the company name. Going to Ybox would kill their brand and put them back at square one.
Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
by bigstrat2003 on Thursday January 16, 2025 @06:53PM
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I don't think you are wrong. There's absolutely no way people are that stupid.
Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
by krapp on Thursday January 16, 2025 @06:55PM
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People are absolutely, unequivocally that stupid, in droves.
Part of me wants to think that consumers can't possibly that uninformed, but I know in my heart I am wrong.
They should have done what Nintendo (usually) does and left the numbers out of it. Call the next iteration of the Xbox the <something else>box.