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The popularity of the Nintendo Switch shows no sign of waning. Despite being seven years old (practically elderly in the world of video games), Nintendo’s family-friendly console is still selling in its millions. The company has now sold an eye-watering 139.36 million units in total.
But while the Nintendo Switch still reigns supreme, the console is getting a bit long in the tooth, lagging behind in terms of technical hardware. In an earnings call last May, Nintendo’s president Shuntaro Furukawa admitted that “sustaining the Switch’s sales momentum [would] be difficult in its seventh year”.
Yet the Nintendo Switch 2 is still going strong. After seeing positive sales of the console over the festive period, earlier this month Nintendo raised its 2024 hardware sales forecast by half a million. But with the current console’s ageing internals, a Nintendo Switch 2 is surely coming soon.
While we saw the launch of the Nintendo Switch…
