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The Nintendo Switch has just surpassed the Famicom (the original Japanese version of the NES) as the Nintendo home console to have had the longest lifespan before being replaced by a newer machine.
Released on March 3, 2017, the Switch has been around for 2,688 days (as of this writing, July 12), which is just over seven years and four months, compared to 2,686 days for the Famicom before it was supplanted by the Super Famicom. Given that we still know next to nothing about Nintendo’s next machine, that margin of victory is only going to grow from here on out.
Thanks to the folks over at VGC, who brought this to the world’s attention and put together a fantastic comparison of Nintendo home console lifespans (check it out here), we can also see that the Switch is well on its way to becoming a home console. doubly the comparative lifespan of the Wii U, which was only released for 1,566 days before becoming obsolete – or even sooner in the eyes of most consumers.
Will the Switch celebrate its 8th birthday without a successor being released? It seems more and more likely every day. And of course, even after a new Nintendo console do It’s hard not to see the current Switch enjoying many more years of life given its immense popularity and top-notch library of first-party titles.
For now, all we know is that Nintendo plans to officially announce its next console sometime between now and the end of March 2025.
“I am Furukawa, President of Nintendo,” the company’s statement read a few months ago. “We will be making an announcement regarding the successor to Nintendo Switch this fiscal year. It will be over nine years since we announced Nintendo Switch in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct in June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the second half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the successor to Nintendo Switch during this presentation.”