By It’s official: The Switch has overtaken the original Famicom/NES to become Nintendo’s longest-lasting home console without a successor.
The Switch launched worldwide on March 3rd 2017, approximately 2,690 days ago. That beats the record previously held by the Famicom/NES, which launched 2,686 days after July 15th 1983, and stayed around until it was succeeded in 1990.
As the Switch’s successor isn’t expected to launch before March 1st next year, the Switch could go up to nearly 3,000 days without the launch of newer hardware.
Here’s a breakdown of the previous gaps between consoles and the ones after it:
NES/Famicom (July 1983): 2686 days
Super NES/Super Famicom (November 1990): 2041 days
Nintendo 64 (June 1996): 1909 days
GameCube (Sep 2001): 1892 days
Wii (Nov 2006): 2191 days
Wii U (Nov 2012): 1566 days
Nintendo Switch (March 2017): 2690 days
Compared to its handheld 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 it had sold 141.32 million Switch consoles. If it hits its sales forecast of 13.5 million for the current business year, it could potentially overtake Nintendo DS (154m) and PlayStation 2 (160m) as the best-selling console in history.
Source: VGC
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