The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

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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.)

I remember in 2022 when President Furuwaka stated “Switch is just in the middle of its lifecycle and the momentum going into this year is good. The Switch is ready to break a pattern of our past consoles that saw momentum weakening in their sixth year on the market and grow further”.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/02/nintendo-president-reiterates-that-switch-is-just-in-the-middle-of-its-lifecycle

Given this, it was stated about 5 years after the Switch’s release, meaning that if it’s halfway at 5 years then the full lifecycle can be considered 10 years.

Switch will continue to sell in 2027. And it should surpass the total PS2 sold estimates by early 2026.