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It’s official: the Switch has surpassed the original Famicom/NES to become Nintendo’s longest-lasting home console without a successor.
The Switch was released worldwide on March 3, 2017, approximately 2,690 days ago. This record is broken by the Famicom/NES, which was released 2,686 days later on July 15, 1983, and remained in circulation until its replacement in 1990.
Given that the Switch’s successor isn’t expected to launch until March 1 next year, the Switch could go nearly 3,000 days without a newer hardware launch.
Here’s a breakdown of the previous console gaps and the ones that follow:
NES/Famicom (July 1983): 2686 days
Super NES/Super Famicom (November 1990): 2041 days
Nintendo 64 (June 1996): 1909 days
GameCube (September 2001): 1892 days
Wii (November 2006): 2191 days
Wii U (November 2012): 1566 days
Nintendo Switch (March 2017): 2690 days
Compared to its portable hardware, the Switch won’t come close to the original Game Boy, which saw 4,352 days pass before its successor, the Game Boy Advance, was released.
Back in May, Nintendo confirmed that it had sold 141.32 million Switch consoles. If it meets its sales forecast of 13.5 million for the current fiscal year, it could potentially surpass the Nintendo DS (154 million) and PlayStation 2 (160 million) as the best-selling console in history.
Source: VGC