Yes, that’s right. The Nintendo Switch old For now. There comes a time with every console when the games start to dry up and you start looking to the future, and the Switch is reaching the end of that period. In May, two months into its eighth year since launch, Nintendo announced that it would be unveiling new hardware by April of next year. This announcement gives us a sense that the really good stuff will be saved for the big launch of the next console.
But looking back at past Nintendo systems, it’s not like the Switch is going to be a flop for the rest of the year. You’d be forgiven for thinking that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was the Switch’s final big boost. Then came Super Mario Bros. Wonder. One would have thought that the launch of the Switch in 2017 meant the end of the era of high-quality exclusives for the 3DS, but as we’ll explain below, that wasn’t the case. In fact, Nintendo has a good track record when it comes to putting out great games at the end of a console’s lifecycle, and having sold over 140 million Switches, there’s likely still gold to be found in the mountains of first-party titles and all the third-party stuff already known about.