share 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 If it feels like the Nintendo Switch has been around for quite some time, that’s because it has. The hybrid console now holds the honour of being the company’s longest-running console without a successor , breaking the previous record held by the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), otherwise known as Famicom in Japan. This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo.
We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct.
.. — 任天堂株式会社(企業広報・IR) (@NintendoCoLtd) May 7, 2024 At the time of writing, Switch’s lifecycle hit 2,691 days since its worldwide release on 3 March 2017, surpassing the 2,686-day streak held by its ancestor.
The figure is expected to go beyond 2,920 days, as company president Shuntaro Furukawa wrote on X/Twitter that an announcement about its successor will take place “within this fiscal year” , which puts it before March 2025 . The launch, therefore, is likely to take place after. It’s interesting to note that the interval between each hardware launch after the NES got increasingly shorter, until the transitional period from the Wii to Wii U.
The latter enjoyed the fewest days without being replaced, clocking 1,566 days in a rare Nintendo sales flop. Released in 1983, the NES was the predecessor of 1990’s Super Nintendo Entertain.
