The Switch is actually a very different animal than a system like the Wii.  Nintendo won't support of it so suddenly like they did the Wii.  They only have to support one system at a time now instead of splitting resources between home and handheld markets.  Also Switch style games are a better fit for Nintendo's developers compared to Wii style games.  Their developers prefer to make these types of games.

If Nintendo are smart they'll push the Switch for years to come, but what worries me is Nintendo have a long history of being really, really stupid at times.

Yeah, I agree that Nintendo can be stupid.  The dumb thing I am more worried about is that the next console won't be a hybrid like the Switch.  It would be dumb not to simply have a Switch 2 replace the Switch when the proper time comes. 

But they have said that they plan to support the Switch for many years, and I believe them when they say this.

I guess time will tell.

I never thought I'd say this, as in recent years I've generally been bored by systems that are just more powerful versions of their predecessors, but in this case, yeah, I really hope Nintendo's next system is a regular Switch 2 rather than something like Wii U or 3DS that tries to be different in the wrong way.

Nice, Switch breaks ahead, and with 3DS and Wii U being as front-loaded as they were, they'll be no going back now.

These charts really show, to me at least, that the switch is nintendo's leggiest console in a very long time. Even in the PS4 comparison, against a console with a long sales curve, the period where switch has caught up the most is in its third year. I know that in the twilight years switch likely will fall behind PS4 again, but its still amazing to watch a nintendo console hold up so well not just out the gate.

Also, it is interesting that the 3DS had sold half of its LTD number at this point in time. That basically infers that in the worst case scenario, switch will sell at least 100 million (double its current number), and that given how much less front-loaded it is, it has a pretty great chance at selling something like 115+ million.

It'd be crazy if Xbox goes from being first place in the US in the 7th gen so being outsold there by both PS4 and Switch, which looks quite likely to eventually happen. Quite the tumble.

In terms of percentage, pretty sure those two are unparalleled. In terms of raw numbers, PS3 fell by 70 million from PS2, which is more than PSP to Vita.

After a disastrous launch Xbox One has sold quite well in America, all things considered. Odds of the XSX outselling the PS5 in the USA are high.

Yeah, that one's a drop of 80 million. Yowch.

If there's one thing that's been demonstrated many times in this industry, it's that great success or miserable failure is never a guarantee the successor will follow the same path.