Though Nintendo has a history of discontinuing its older consoles without missing a beat, there's reason to believe this won't happen with the Switch.

The new console looks physically similar to the popular Switch system, which has sold more than 146 million units in seven years.

After years of speculation around what it could look like, this week Nintendo officially revealed the successor to its most popular home console ever: the Nintendo Switch 2. The new device looks a lot like the old one,