This week, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch officially surpassed the NES’ record and became the Ninꦚtendo console with the longest life before the arrival of a successo🐽r. The NES was the primary Nintendo home console for seven years and 129 days, and was succeeded by the SNES in the early '90s (the launch year varied by region). The Switch broke that record when it hit seven years and 13✤0 days on July 10, and there are still at least several months before its successor arrives. It could be a long time before another Nintendo console beats this record.
Turns Out, Seven Years And 130 Days Is A Long Time
When I first saw this news, my emotional reaction (unregulated by my brain which is capable of understanding linear time) was, "No way, the Switch just came out." Logically, I know that isn't true. I know that, by some measure, seven years and 130 days is a long time. My first niece was an infant when Nintendo's hybrid console debuted. Now, she's about to turn eight, and has three younger sisters. I was living with my high school friends in a house in Michigan, anꦅd now I've been married and living in Illinois for six years. I had just started a job at a small daily paper. Now, I've been working at TheಞGamer for two years. There are a bunch of moments I can point to that show that time has passed. And despite all that, I look at my Switch and see a new console.
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This illustrates that time isn't real. By that I mean that our experience of time is so subjective that it's functionally almost useless. The Wii generation felt li🐽ke it lasted forever, but, that's because the years between 2006 and 2012 were formative for me as a kid. The Wii launched when I was a few mont🌱hs into sixth grade, and passed the torch to the Wii U when I was a freshman in college. Those were vastly different points in my life and maturity, and the Wii was there through it all.
For kids growing up now, the Switch will span an even bigger chunk of꧑ their lives. Imagine getting the Switch when you're in first grade. You love it, and play it after school for three years. Then, when you're finishing up fourth grade, the pandemic happens. Through multiple years of virtual learning, it's a lifeline to your friends and to different, better worlds. Now, things are back to normal, but you’ve just finished up eighth grade, and are headed into high school. You are in a completely different place now than you were when the Switch first arrived. It's a huge swath of time, one that covers a once-in-a-century event, and multiple years on either side. Aside from minor variations like the OLED upgrade and the Switch Lite, the cꦿonsole has been the same through all the turmoil. I bet those kids feel like they've been playing the Switch forever.
The Switch Is Old And New Because Time Is Relative
So, some of this has to do with your age. The fraction of your life seven years occupies is bigger when you're young, smaller when you're old. Bu✃t some of it is being in school. I breezed over the pandemic years in my hypothetical, but being in school is full of time markers. The start of the school year, big tests, Thanksgiving break, final exams, Christmas break, returning for the spring semester, homecoming, prom, and summer break — those are just a few of the indications the school year gives you that time is indeed passing.
As an adult, you just… work. You have vacations, but they aren't nearly as regular. You don't 🎃have a summer break. Life goes on, and the variations are smaller. I got to wean myself off the school 😼calendar because I covered high school sports for two years after college, and my schedule was still tied to the school year. But eventually losing that regularity was a trip, and really messed up my sense of the passage of time.
So, no, the Switch is not a new console. Seven years and 130 days is a long time. But, it would be nice if adults got reminders like this a littlﷺe more regularly, rather than going about our lives for years🥀, then finding out, all of a sudden, that the Switch is now as old as a second grader.
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With so many games coming in the Switch's fꦛinal year, I can only imagine its successor will be backwards compatible
