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[Poimandres]

I've only ever always called it the SNESS. It sounds less nasally when you're not American

SNESS is easier to say, and I don't think the console needs to be addressed by its official title. When you're friends say hello, do they use your full name? I doubt it. NES, SNES, 64. At least from the Gamecube on the names don't need to be contracted.

In the same way, no one was calling the Playstation the PS1 when it was the ONLY Playstation but it's just easier these days to say PS1, PS2, PS3 etc.

 

[formasymphonic]

SNEZ

SNEZ

And NEZ

UK here

SNEZ SNEZ SNEZ

You need two 's' to make a Sness sound, SNES has one 's', therefore SNEZ, like NEZ before it.

Super Nintendo? Ain't nobody got time for that.

Snez all one word.

SNEZ for life

SNEZ

It's a Snez. We all know it, don't fight it.

Snez in UK but we say Mario correctly so it evens out.

It's a Snez. Always has been, always will be.

Nez, Snez, Megadrive

I've always said snez.

Maybe you don't, but some of us do.

Spoiler

ps SNEZ or GTFO (pronounced gthfoh)

Comrades.

 

[Theonik]

I call it Supah Famicon then do the shuffle.

 

[18-Volt]

I used to call it just "Nintendo" when I was a little kid, i didn't know it had a predecessor before it.

Now I say just "Super Ness". I don't know why.

 

[Berserking Guts]

I always called it a snez. Early 90s after school I'd say to my mates "wanna come over and play on the snez?" or "wanna come over and play [game title]?"

It just rolled off the tongue better then, ahem, "wanna play some super nintendo?" I never said that shit. It was my SNEZ

 

[peetfeet]

I called it Super Nintendo at the time, because it was, in both name and stature. Afterwards, when the generation moved on I referred to it as SNES[Z] mostly, still do. It's my all time favourite console by far. Going to get snotty about referring to it as the SNES? I'm 47 and couldn't give a jezebel's breasticle what you think.

 

[Tenrius]

SNEZ all the way. #teamsnez

 

[GitarooMan]

Hearing sness makes me recoil. S.N.E.S or Super N.E.S forever

 

[PSqueak]

Super Nintendo is how I say it. When I hear people say snes or super n.e.s. I fucking laugh.

I don't think any person from a spanish speaking country ever called it anything other than Super Nintendo. Super for short.

 

[RPGam3r]

I hear Giant Bomb (eg Jeff) say "sness" and I just shake my head, I expect more from them.

 

[ManeKast]

I'm 40. Always called it a SNES and so has everyone around me (Australia).

 

[Brinbe]

wtf? who cares

 

[Intru]

Sorry that such a trivial thing bothers you so much OP.

I tend to switch between Super Nintendo and SNESS.

 

[JeTmAn81]

I say Super Nintendo, and I used to also say Ess N.E.S. until I started listening to the Giant Bombcast and now...sness.

 

[SalvaPot]

I call it "The Super"

 

[Breakage]

I believe super famicom got called SuFami in Japan.

I didn't know that. Japan loves its portmanteaus.

 

[Technosteve]

Snes is a west coast term

 

[Berserking Guts]

Megadrive or Genesis?

The right answer is Megadrive.

 

[chronic_archaic]

SNES or Super Nintendo - I never got people who said either the NES or SNES like "ness" or "snez"

 

[Falchion]

Why would I ever say Super Nintendo when Sness is so much quicker?

 

[RPGam3r]

I say Super Nintendo, and I used to also say Ess N.E.S. until I started listening to the Giant Bombcast and now...sness.

They've ruined you. Darn you GB!

 

[FinalAres]

I think I know what the confusion is.

Here is the lowly Super Nintendo

And here is the glorious Snezz.

Edit: I give up. Never done images before.

 

[Boss Man]

My first console, I called it Super Nintendo. I thought Sness was a cool kid thing. Well, look at me now mom!

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Super Nintendo

 

[Bootador83]

We had this conversation a while back. In the UK it was was Snez even to those who didn't own one.

 

[FTF]

M.o.n.s.t.e.r.

The Lock Snes Monster.

 

[bean breath]

Snes is a west coast term

The west coast of what? Hell?

 

[Berserking Guts]

Like, Super Nintendo is such a long name to constantly use in conversation with your friends. In text form sure, but in conversation? Phew exhausting!

 

[Charles Brandon]

What do the Snez people call ZSnes? ZSnez?
Cause that's just silly talk.

zed-snez

 

[Feel_The_Pain]

Super nessss

 

[Lylo]

Here in Brazil we say "Super Nintendo" and, less frequently, Super NES (pronouncing as a word and not every letter individually).

 

[budpikmin]

Snes for life. It's just easier. And I loved mine

 

[Suburban Thug]

I say Super Nintendo or S-N-E-S

Never Sness. It sounds wrong.

 

[KungFucius]

You have to account for age variation. Those who grew up with the NES called it Nintendo and naturally called the SNES the Super Nintendo. These people are at the youngest, in their late 30s. At some point in the SNES generation, the "Super" was dropped as nobody really had an NES around.

 

[GiantBreadbug]

I guess calling it Super Nintendo isn't stupid if you called the NES "Nintendo."

But it's S N E S. Just like N E S. I don't think I've ever heard anyone but non-gamers call them by anything besides their initials irl.

 

[Namegoes_Here]

Super Nintendo. People who call it "Snez/Snes" always remind me of people who say their favorite Xbox game is Zelda.

 

[Producer]

people actually say sness? Wow

 

[stan423321]

What do the Snez people call ZSnes? ZSnez?
Cause that's just silly talk.

Z-Super Nintendo sounds considerably more silly

 

[ScientificPizza]

I don't think there's a wrong way to say it but I've always just said Super Nintendo to avoid have the pronunciation conversation

 

[Ninja Scooter]

It was always "Super Nintendo" with me and my friends. NES was always Nintendo or, when the SNES came out, the "regular Nintendo". Legit never heard "SNES" as one word until I was an adult.

 

[darscot]

It was always just Nintendo can't say I ever had to distinguish in an actual conversation.

 

[Finn]

S.N.E.S is how the cool kids say it.

Typically cool kids have friends, though.

 

[Anustart]

8D : Super Nintendo
: S.N.E.S
:| : Super N.E.S
: Sness

 

[CJCW]

OP is spot on. We must eradicate the menace of pronouncing it as one word.

 

[sfried]

I say "ESSNESS", as in S-NES.

 

[shouamabane]

- "Super N.E.S."

Look, you're not wrong but this was really only said in TV commercials. I have to imagine that in addition to saying Super N.E.S., you probably also say "Game Paks" and take the requisite 15 minute break for every 1 hour of play as instructed in the manual. Also, I'm just gonna lump in "S.N.E.S." people here as well because I don't hear it very often and compared to the final group in this list, you sound like angels.

EGM was our bible then.

 

[v1lla21]

I don't think any person from a spanish speaking country ever called it anything other than Super Nintendo. Super for short.

Oh yeah definitely. Hell the older people just call everything a Nintendo. Lol.

 

[blame space]

Super NES IMO

 

[Stallion Dan]

Owned and played it when it was new.

SNES.

Everyone said SNES, in UK anyway.

 

[Marchizmo]

If you can shorten it to Super Nintendo from Super Nintendo Entertainment System, why can't the rest of us just shorten it to an acronym?