The Switch is a different thing than what came before, though, because it represents the merging of their Gameboy and TV Console systems into a single machine.

The Switch is a different thing than what came before, though, because it represents the merging of their Gameboy and TV Console systems into a single machine. It's sort of miraculous that it worked out so well. Since the original Gameboy they've had the mobile gaming market cornered absolutely. Even with the rise of cell phones the "good" games aren't there. You can't play The Witcher 3 on your Samsung Galaxy Tablet even if ostensibly it's very similar, hardwarewise, to the Switch. Interestingly, Nvidia tried to make the Nvidia Shield as something like this, but failed and I think uses the same/similar GPU chips in the Switch now. So the Switch is a merger of two branches Gameboy Advance -> DS -> 3DS N64 -> Gamecube -> Wii -> Wii U And now these two markets have collapsed into the Nintendo Switch (which isn't a bad thing!)