As part of Nintendo’s recent sales report for the fourth quarter of 2022, the company revealed that the Switch has reached 122.5 million units sold. This makes it the third bestselling system of all time, behind the Nintendo DS (154.02 million) and the PlayStation 2 (158 million). The Nintendo Switch launched in 2017 but shows no signs of stopping anytime soon, which likely means we won’t get a successor for quite some time. This would go against the length of a traditional console generational cycle of around five to seven years, making the Nintendo Switch an outlier in the hardware space.
