07/10/2024
Nintendo Switch has gone nearly 2,700 days without a successor to the throne
The Nintendo Switch is now the developer's longest-running reigning console.
Per VGC, the home/handheld hybrid has been around for 2,687 days (or seven years, four months, and just shy of two weeks). The console originally released March 3, 2017, and beat out the Famicom's (or NES in the west) streak by just a single day.
As the outlet notes, distance between other Nintendo consoles has gotten progressively shorter outside of those two. Using global launches, VGC determined the span between the Nintendo 64 and Nintendo Gamecube was 1,909 days, while the Nintendo Wii and WiiU had a gap of 1,892 days.
Meanwhile, the WiiU and Switch had the shortest leap of the bunch at 1,566 days. It's also worth noting this just concerns home consoles; when it comes to handhelds, the Switch falls behind the original Game Boy, which went 4,352 days before it was usurped by the Game Boy Advance.
