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After selling over 13 million consoles in less than a year, the Nintendo Switch is undeniably off to a hot start. Looking into the future, though, how long we can expect the Switch era to last before its inevitable successor comes along?

In an investor Q&A posted over the weekend, Nintendo seemed confident it can extend the Switch’s relevance longer than the usual cycle for a game console. “Up until now the hardware lifecycle has trended at around five or six years,” Nintendo’s Co-representative Director and legendary Designer Shigeru Miyamoto said in the Q&A. “But it would be very interesting if we could prolong that life cycle, and I think you should be looking forward to that.”

Miyamoto cited the Switch’s portability and unique hardware features, as well as a strong pipeline of games and development talent, in explaining that expected longevity. But there’s some evidence that the days of a five- or six-year console generation are already past for the entire market, not just the Switch.