When will Switch pass Wii?

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miqdadi said:

curl-6 said:

Of the 12 systems Nintendo have released to date, I can think of only two, Wii and GBA, that were successful but cut short early.

As Eagle points out, they're still selling the 3DS which is not only approaching its 9th birthday but was much less successful than the Switch.

What determines that is 3rd party support, most likely first party will move to the next project

Even though Nintendo launched the Switch in March 2017 it supported the 3DS in both 2017 and 2018.  Go back and look at the Nintendo Directs from these years and you'll see a short section for 3DS games in the beginning.  Not coincidentally 3DS sales stayed fairly steady throughout 2017 and 2018, nothing impressive, but enough to keep tail end sales alive.  In 2019, they started focusing solely on Switch and that was the year the 3DS sales slowed to a crawl.

Nintendo gave first party support to the 3DS for 8 years, 2011-2018.  If they will do that for a system that only sold 75m then imagine what they will do for the Switch.