As of Thursday, July 11, the Switch is officially the longest-lasting console in Nintendo’s history. As noted by , the Switch has been on the market for 2,687 days without being replaced by a new console, which is one day longer than the span between the launch of the NES in 1983 and the launch of the SNES in 1990. When Nintendo at a Switch 2 announcement last summer, I pointed out that the Japanese company had never waited more than seven years between home console launches.
Well, the seventh anniversary of the Switch came and went in March. Four months later, we’ve still yet to see the follow-up to the Nintendo Switch. Here’s the full timeline of Nintendo home consoles so far, courtesy of : The two that stand out are actually the two most recent consoles: the Wii U and the Switch.
As Nintendo fans probably know, . The Wii U GamePad was a confusing, unwieldy gimmick, first-party Wii U games were few and far between, and the name was just terrible. It’s no wonder Nintendo rushed to get the Switch out.
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While this record-breaking wait for the next console has been tough, . Nintendo President.
