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Best-selling Nintendo games

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Best selling games and franchises developed or published by Nintendo.

Nintendo consoles worldwide

Worldwide shipments (Graph)

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Nintendo hardware sales figures

Hardware

Total hardware sales
Company Console sales Total sales
Home Handheld
Nintendo 425.21 million 474.33 million 899.54 million

Home consoles

See also: Best selling game consoles
Platform Year Sales Ref
Color TV-Game 1977 3,000,000 [1]
Nintendo Entertainment System 1983 61,910,000 [2]
Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1990 49,100,000 [2]
Nintendo 64 1996 32,930,000 [2]
Nintendo GameCube 2001 21,740,000 [2]
Wii 2006 101,630,000 [2]
Wii U 2012 13,560,000 [2]
NES Classic Edition 2016 3,600,000 [3]
Super NES Classic Edition 2017 5,280,000 [4]
Nintendo Switch 2017 132,460,000 [2]

Handheld systems

See also: Best selling handheld consoles
Platform Year Sales Ref
Game & Watch 1980 43,400,000 [5]
Game Boy / Game Boy Color 1989 / 1998 118,690,000 [2]
Virtual Boy 1995 770,000 [6]
Game Boy Advance 2001 81,510,000 [2]
Nintendo DS and DSi 2004 154,020,000 [2]
Nintendo 3DS family 2011 75,940,000 [2]

Peripherals

Hardware Year Sales (est.) Ref
Beam Gun 1970 2,000,000 [7][8]
Shooting Gallery (Magnavox Odyssey) 1972 20,000 [9][10]
Coleco Telstar components 1978 700,000 [11][12][13]

Software

Best-selling franchises

This list includes all Nintendo franchises that have crossed the 5 million mark. Sales data mostly based on Nintendo's official sales data.

  1. Mario (826.38 million)
  2. Pokémon (480.00 million)
  3. Wii Series (215.44 million)
  4. The Legend of Zelda (163.34 million)
  5. Animal Crossing (78.98 million)
  6. Super Smash Bros (73.74 million)
  7. Donkey Kong (65.00 million)*
  8. Kirby (50.76 million)
  9. Game & Watch (43.40 million)
  10. Brain Age (35.51 million)
  11. Yoshi (29.34 million)
  12. Splatoon (29.22 million)
  13. Nintendogs (28.65 million)
  14. Duck Hunt (28.31 million)
  15. Luigi's Mansion (23.10 million)
  16. Wario (22.81 million)
  17. Metroid (21.45 million)
  18. Fire Emblem (20.70 million)
  19. Ring Fit Adventure (15.38 million)[14]
  20. Tomodachi (13.49 million)
  21. Star Fox (11.67 million)
  22. Big Brain Academy (11.43 million)
  23. Pikmin (10.45 million)
  24. Xenoblade Chronicles (8.74 million)
  25. Clubhouse Games (7.21 million)
  26. Excite (6.02 million)
  27. Style Savvy (5.87 million)
  28. F-Zero (5.85 million)
  29. Nintendo Land (5.21 million)[15]
  30. Rhythm Heaven (5.18 million)

*Not counting licensed ports of the arcade Donkey Kong games to none Nintendo hardware and the Donkey Kong version of Game & Watch

Best-selling games

This list includes the top 50 Nintendo games, all of which have crossed the 10 million mark. For rereleases and remasters of the same game, the sales data is combined.

  1. Wii Sports — Wii — 82.90 million
  2. Mario Kart 8 — Wii U/Switch — 65.47 million
  3. Pokémon Red/Green/Blue/Yellow — GB/GBA/VC — 59.52 million
  4. Super Mario Bros. — NES/GBC/GBA/3DS(VC) — 48.24 million
  5. Animal Crossing: New Horizons — Switch — 43.38 million
  6. Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal — GBC/DS — 42.21 million
  7. Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum — DS/Switch — 40.34 million
  8. Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald — GBA/3DS — 37.88 million
  9. Mario Kart Wii — Wii — 37.38 million
  10. Tetris — NES/GB — 35.84 million
  11. Wii Sports Resort — Wii — 33.14 million
  12. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — Switch/Wii U — 32.85 million
  13. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate — Switch — 32.44 million
  14. New Super Mario Bros. — DS — 30.80 million
  15. New Super Mario Bros. Wii — Wii — 30.32 million
  16. Duck Hunt — NES — 28.31 million
  17. Wii Play — Wii — 28.02 million
  18. Super Mario Odyssey — Switch — 26.95 million
  19. Super Mario World — SNES/GBA — 26.30 million
  20. Pokémon Sword and Shield — Switch — 26.02 million
  21. New Super Mario Bros. U — Wii U/Switch — 25.59 million
  22. Pokémon Sun & Moon — 3DS — 25.09 million
  23. Nintendogs — DS — 23.96 million
  24. Super Mario Bros. 3 — NES/GBA — 23.71 million
  25. Mario Kart DS — DS — 23.60 million
  26. Super Mario 64 — N64/DS — 22.97 million
  27. Wii Fit — Wii — 22.67 million
  28. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet — Switch — 22.10 million
  29. Wii Fit Plus — Wii — 21.13 million
  30. Super Mario Party — Switch — 19.66 million
  31. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - 19.50 million
  32. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! — DS — 19.01 million
  33. Mario Kart 7 — 3DS — 18.98 million
  34. Super Mario 3D World — Wii U/Switch — 18.47 million
  35. Super Mario Land — GB — 18.14 million
  36. Pokémon X & Y — 3DS — 16.72 million
  37. Pokémon Black & White — DS — 15.64 million
  38. Ring Fit Adventure — Switch — 15.38 million
  39. Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! & Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! — Switch — 15.07 million
  40. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/WiiU — 3DS/Wii U — 14.99 million
  41. Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day! — DS — 14.88 million
  42. Pokémon Legends: Arceus — Switch — 14.83 million
  43. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time — N64/3DS — 13.82 million
  44. New Super Mario Bros. 2 — 3DS — 13.37 million
  45. Super Smash Bros. Brawl — Wii — 13.32 million
  46. Donkey Kong Country — SNES/GBC/GBA — 13.31 million
  47. Splatoon 2 — Switch — 13.60 million
  48. Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) — NES/GBA — 13.03 million
  49. Animal Crossing: New Leaf — 3DS — 13.05 million
  50. Luigi's Mansion 3 — Switch — 12.82 million

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sheff, David; Eddy, Andy (1999), Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the World, GamePress, p. 27, ISBN 978-0-9669617-0-6, "Nintendo entered the home market in Japan with the dramatic unveiling of Color TV Game 6, which played six versions of light tennis. It was followed by a more powerful sequel, Color TV Game 15. A million units of each were sold. The engineering team also came up with systems that played a more complex game, called "Blockbuster," as well as a racing game. Half a million units of these were sold."
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/index.html
  3. ↑ Nintendo software and hardware sales data from 1983 to present, Updated as of December 2021
  4. ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/180426e.pdf
  5. ↑ http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/clubn/game-and-watch-ball-reward/0/3
  6. ↑ Blake Snow (May 4, 2007). The 10 Worst-Selling Consoles of All Time. GamePro.com. Archived from the original on May 8, 2007. Retrieved on November 25, 2007.
  7. ↑ Kohler, Chris (2004). Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life. Indianapolis, IN: BradyGames. pp. 30-1. ISBN 978-0-7440-0424-3. https://archive.org/details/poweruphowjapane0000kohl/page/30/mode/2up.
  8. ↑ https://darkzero.co.uk/game-articles/the-history-of-nintendo/
  9. ↑ Picard, Martin (December 2013). "The Foundation of Geemu: A Brief History of Early Japanese video games". Game Studies 13 (2). ISSN 1604-7982. https://gamestudies.org/1302/articles/picard.
  10. ↑ https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/92331-first-home-console-light-gun
  11. ↑ Weekly Television Digest with Consumer Electronics. 18. Editorial & Business Headquarters. 1978. p. 10. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSIqAQAAIAAJ. "Coleco is going to Japan for game chips, boards & technology. Toy maker Nintendo, Japan's largest game supplier for domestic market, will supply Coleco with unspecified quantity of components beginning in June, provide technology on royalty basis for game system."
  12. ↑ Herman, Leonard (1997). Phoenix: the fall & rise of videogames (2nd ed.). Union, NJ: Rolenta Press. p. 20. ISBN 0-9643848-2-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=duITAQAAIAAJ. "Like Pong, Telstar could only play video tennis but it retailed at an inexpensive $50 that made it attractive to most families that were on a budget. Coleco managed to sell over a million units"
  13. ↑ "Toy Industry Anticipates High Sales". The Windsor Star: p. 23. 12 February 1979. https://books.google.com/books?id=3FU_AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA23&article_id=3848,3907810. "Coleco first introduced its Telstar game computer in June, 1976, before other toy companies had turned to electronics. About 300,000 Telstar units have been sold since, Clarke said."
  14. ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.html
  15. ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/wiiu.html

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