The original Switch is officially Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time after surpassing the DS handheld in lifetime sales. In its latest earnings release, Nintendo reports that the Nintendo Switch has, as of December 31, 2025, sold 155.37 million units since its launch in 2017, compared to 154.02 million units for the 2004 Nintendo DS.
Glad to hear that it worked out for you. If not for a few specific non-first party exclusives (that I really, really, wish were not), my Switch would just be a rarely used Mario Kart Machine. I had a feeling this would happen when i got the Switch, since it was exactly how it played out with the Wii (except it became a rarely used Wii Sports Machine). No chance I’ll ever buy a Switch 2 or probably any other Nintendo console at this rare. It’s been all down hill for Nintendo since the SNES :)
Yeah, doesn’t sound like Nintendo is for you anymore. If you are still interested, you can try looking at existing library in a few years and see if it something catches your eye, otherwise just ignore the console.
Have fun wherever your play!
Yeah, they definitely aren’t for me anymore. I will definitely miss the Xenoblade games, but that’s about it. The last first party series that kept my interest were the Zelda games, but I really didn’t care for the last two. They just weren’t what I wanted in a Zelda game, they felt like Zelda themed open world sandbox games that were just OK. I probably would have liked them more if they hadn’t carried the name and baggage of my favorite Nintendo series.
That is a problem with long running series, for instance my biggest complain with Pokémon is that they just keep making the same game without trying new things, so the balance of doing something new but also keeping with the core of the series can be a tough challenge.
As for the Zelda games, they will probably make something new / different now, but I don’t think they will go back to the old formula. We will just have to wait and see.
The Zelda series has always been tried new things so I don’t think I’d put it in the same category as Pokemon, but BOTW and its sequel sold quite well, so I don’t think they will go the direction I’d have preferred. As a weird coincidence, yesterday my wife asked if I’d set up the NES Classic and she and the kids played SMB, Dr Mario, and other classics. Nintendo really was in a class of its own back then.