In the graph below, Statista has compiled the sales figures for each generation of Nintendo home console since 1998.
Nintendo consoles, a perfect alternation of successes and failures since the 2000s££££
We can observe a certain alternation since the beginning of the 2000s, the success of one machine being followed by the "relative failure" of the next, and so on. Success therefore for the Nintendo 64 released in 1996, but a little less so for the GameCube which followed in 2002. Then legendary success for the Wii in 2007, followed by a flop of the Wii U from 2013. You guessed it, the next machine - the Switch released in 2017 - shattered all records.
Nintendo Switch 2, to break the curse and win twice in a row££££
Naturally, this succession of success/failure is not an immutable rule, and Nintendo is well on its way to breaking the "curse" with a Switch 2 that takes no risks and rides the wave of the previous machine's success. The first sales figures are more than encouraging, and analysts estimate that 15 million machines will be sold in just ten months.
