Having been through every Nintendo unveil of the last 20 years, I would say in terms of excitement/hype after unveil it would go
N64 > Wii > GameCube > 3DS > Switch > GBA > DS > Wii U
DS didn't have a lot of hype at first so it is possible to not have pre-hype and still do well but DS may be a outlier. Switch I'd say is kinda middle of the pack, about the same as the 3DS, but at that time Nintendo was in a much better place (still coming off the buzz of the Wii/DS dominance era, 3D at the time was really cool because of Avatar, mobile gaming still wasn't that big yet).
N64 and Wii had huge hype immediately. Huge. There's a drop off after that to GameCube, which was still very positively received by Nintendo fanatics, remember people cheering and going crazy during the demo reel when Samus showed up.
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