NES to SNES
GB to GBA continued the GameBoy brand and mimicked the jump from NES to SNES in terms of hardware and therefore types of games. And GBA sold extremely well it would have easily been over 100m if Nintendo hadn't cut it off early with the DS.
GBA to DS switching brands but made Nintendo handhelds more popular than ever by doing something totally different so that was impressive.
GC to Wii was similar to GBA to DS except Nintendo took a weak gen to an extremely strong gen by adding something totally different and also preserved GC with backwards compatibility.
WiiU to Switch by taking the horribly failed half-measure that the WiiU was and moving to the completed reality of the idea in a hybrid design. Porting a bunch of games over from the WiiU. Preserved the motion controls of the Wii and WiiU even though it's only used in a few games. Moving from the overpriced pick-which-games-you-want VC to the NSO subscription model where you can play the full library was a fantastic upgrade to a permanent retro gaming setup even if it took them awhile to initially add the online service and have gradually/slowly built it out. And they just frankly made the best Nintendo system ever.
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