Best-selling Nintendo consoles announced

Nintendo has sold over 860 million consoles and 5.9 billion games worldwide to date. These figures were revealed in the promotional section of the press release for the “My Mario” product series.

Nintendo’s Best-Selling Consoles

Since launching the Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan in 1983, Nintendo has developed its own gaming systems and software. Over the years, iconic game franchises such as Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, Metroid, Kirby, Animal Crossing, Pikmin, and Splatoon have emerged.

On the hardware side, the Nintendo DS leads as the company’s best-selling console with 154.02 million units shipped. Close behind is the Nintendo Switch with 153.10 million units sold.

Other console sales include:

• Game Boy – 118.69 million
• Wii – 101.63 million
• Game Boy Advance – 81.51 million
• Nintendo 3DS – 75.94 million
• NES – 61.91 million
• SNES – 49.10 million
• Nintendo 64 – 32.93 million
• GameCube – 21.74 million
• Wii U – 13.56 million

The recently launched Nintendo Switch 2 has already surpassed 6 million units.

Top-selling consoles in numbers:

• Nintendo DS – 154.02 million
• Nintendo Switch – 153.10 million
• Game Boy – 118.69 million
• Wii – 101.63 million
• Game Boy Advance – 81.51 million
• Nintendo 3DS – 75.94 million
• NES – 61.91 million
• SNES – 49.10 million
• Nintendo 64 – 32.93 million
• GameCube – 21.74 million
• Wii U – 13.56 million
• Nintendo Switch 2 – 6 million+

Best-selling game series

The Mario series tops game sales with 971.69 million copies sold, followed by Pokémon with 489 million. They are succeeded by the Wii Series, The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong franchises.