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Re: What Comes After Switch? Nintendo Discusses Plans For Future Game Consoles

hotgamer77

@sanderev "I think Nintendo pushed the Switch launch forward 1 or even 2 years because of the Wii U failure."
Nintendo considers Switch to be a home console. So, 2012-2019 would have been the span of Wii U on the market if they hadn't "pushed the Switch launch forward 1 or even 2 years". Name me one Nintendo home console that had 7 years on the market before its successor. For reference, let's look back
NES (1986 nationwide US launch)
SNES (1991 US launch)
N64 (1996 US launch)
GameCube (2001 US launch)
Wii (2006 US launch)
Wii U (2012 US launch)
Switch (2017 US launch)

The only pushed up time would have been a half a year, because only Wii lasted 6 years, so unless Wii U sold more systems than Wii would it have lasted 6 years, no other Nintendo home console got more than 5 years, and remember the NES had over 90% of the US market, and it didn't even get 6 years as its nationwide launch wasn't until 1986!

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