The Nintendo Switch is now the longest operating Nintendo residence console ever after overtaking the Nintendo Entertainment System’s document with out being changed.
As reported by VGC, the Nintendo Switch has now lasted 2,688 days (seven years, 4 months, one week, and 6 days) with out being changed by a subsequent era console, a contact greater than the NES’s 2,686 days. The Super Nintendo Entertainment system then arrived to overhaul it, however with Nintendo’s Switch successor nonetheless some time away, the present console will seemingly maintain a strong new document.
This is additional evidenced by the myriad titles coming to Nintendo Switch within the subsequent 12 months, together with The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Super Mario Party Jamboree, Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, and extra.
Nintendo might announce a few of these as twin Switch and, for lack of an official identify, Switch 2 titles, in fact, simply because it did with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the present console and Wii U, however it has already indicated the following era {hardware} will not arrive till April 2025 on the earliest.
Company president Shuntaro Furukawa has in any other case indicated confidence within the Switch’s longevity, saying in a February 2024 shareholder meeting that Nintendo needs {hardware} gross sales to “keep momentum” regardless of it being in its seventh 12 months.
The Nintendo Switch launched in March 2017 and has bought an unimaginable 141.32 million models, as of March 31, 2024. It’s nonetheless unclear precisely when the Switch 2 will launch, however Nintendo has mentioned an announcement is coming by March 31, 2025. It’s additionally taken a stance towards scalpers, a difficulty which plagued the launches of each the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, by pledging to create sufficient consoles to satisfy client demand.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
