The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

[MadDogg]

RolStoppable said:

Mar1217 said:

It's funny in retrospect to look back at that time Nintendo announced to it's shareholders that they wanted the system to last at 10 years when they realized it's success.

It's still the active system for Nintendo during it's 8th year and will not be replaced before it begins it's 9th cycle. They sure weren't kidding

I don't recall Nintendo ever mentioning a specific timespan like "at least ten years." What they did say time and time again is that Switch won't be bound to Nintendo's conventional console lifecycle. (Which would have meant six years until replacement.)

You’re right. I’m not sure they ever said 10 years. The Nintendo president did say they expect to support switch longer than the typical 5-6 year lifespan. So that timespan was mentioned. No numbers after that. The media ran with it and that’s where the 10 year number came from. 

that being said if you are specifically calling out support longer than 5/6 years you’re not making a point of calling that out to imply 7 years. So 8-10 seems a reasonable inference. 

source:  https://nintendosoup.com/nintendo-wants-extend-switchs-lifespan-6-years/