It’s been almost six years since the Nintendo Switch hit the market, and it’s clear that said console it was a real success. The sales rate it was able to maintain during the first years of its life created a lot of buzz and made us think that eventually it would only be a matter of time before it became the best-selling console of its generation, predicting that it has finally come true.

Since its arrival on the market, the Nintendo Switch has surpassed the PS4 console in total sales, which came to the market at the end of 2012, i.e. He played with more than a four-year lead. According to the big N’s latest quarterly results, Nintendo Switch sales totaled 8.23 ​​million units in the third quarter of the fiscal year, which would leave us with total sales 122.55 million consoles since its release. PS4 is sold 117.2 million pieces.

Nintendo’s hybrid console has become the best-selling system of its generationbecause according to the hardware configuration and according to the release date, it is in the field of PS4 and Xbox One, although, as we have already told you on other occasions, it is less powerful than both and by a considerable margin.

Neither the strength nor the absence of sagas like Call of Duty affected the Nintendo Switch

And this is a significant blow to Sony, which came to say at the time that Microsoft wanted to ignore it and make it Nintendo so that it could not compete with Xbox, citing the interest of the Redmond giant to buy Activision. This comment was very ugly on Sony’s part, and it makes Nintendo’s fist on the table sound all the more powerful.

It was Sony who dismissed Nintendo with this comment, and the second put it in its place with the Nintendo Switch, which despite being less powerful and lacking (according to Sony) the essential Call of Duty, beat the Xbox One in sales and outsold the PS4. In the end, it is clear that a single franchise will not work wonders, and that a hybrid game concept along with exclusive Nintendo franchisesthey carried much more weight than a game that practically repeats itself year after year.

The Nintendo Switch continues to sell at a good pace, but it’s clear that it already has is in the last phase of its life cycleand that it’s only a matter of time before the big N launches the Nintendo Switch 2. However, keep two things in mind: the first is that the said console will not arrive until 2024 at the earliest, and the second is that this will not mean an outright abandonment of the Nintendo Switch, because with the biggest chances are both will co-exist for a while.

If you want my opinion on what the Nintendo Switch 2 could look like, I think the Japanese company will not take any chancesand that ultimately what is about to be introduced is a new console with the same hybrid approach as the original, but with improvements in design, build quality and of course more power.