And yet the rumors say it could be replaced as soon as next year.
But will it bea Switch 2?
Or will Nintendo do what it usually does and develop something completely different?
Nintendo Switch.Alvaro Reyes / Unsplash
The reason for this is that the current Nintendo Switch is one of the best-selling consoles of all time.
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Nintendo’s consoles are unlike anybody else’s.
The Gameboy brought handheld gaming out of the Game & Watch era.
Nintendo Joy-Cons.Lucas Santos / Unsplash
The N64 brought 3D gaming andintroduced the analog joysticknow used by everyone.
The Wii broughtthe Wiimoteand all the sports gamers that went with it.
And theSwitch gave us a convertible consolewith removable controllers.
Vintage Nintendo Famicom.Possessed Photography / Unsplash
On the other hand, there seems to beplenty of life in the Switch formatyet.
This brings us to the reason for Nintendo’s success.
It makes great games, and its consoles are designed to facilitate that.
“Nintendo tends to zig where everyone zags.
Games likeZelda: BotWprove you might make utterly beautiful worlds without massive polygon counts and insane frame rates.
Nintendo’s audience doesn’t want new hardware.
Even the Nintendo fans who are also gaming nerds don’t necessarily want fancier graphics and so on.
Oh, and Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time?
