Yes, yes – we know the Nintendo Switch is old NOW. There comes a time in every console’s life where games start to dry up and we look to the future – and the Switch is truly in the autumn of its years. In May, two months into its eighth year, Nintendo announced that a new hardware announcement would be announced before April of next year, and with that recognition, there’s a feeling that the really good stuff will be saved for launch the next console brilliantly. .
However, looking at older Nintendo consoles, that doesn’t necessarily mean the Switch will be running at full capacity for the rest of the year. You would have been forgiven for thinking that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was the Switch’s last hurray, then Super Mario Bros. Wonder has arrived. You may have thought that the Switch’s release in 2017 meant that the days of the 3DS’ quality proprietary software were numbered, but as we’ll point out below, that wasn’t the case. In fact, Nintendo is in good shape when it comes to delivering brilliant games at the very end of a console’s lifecycle and, having sold over 140 million Switches, there’s a good chance that There is still gold in these proprietary hills, as well as in all the consoles. third-party elements that we already know.