Best selling games and franchises developed or published by Nintendo.
Consoles
Company | Home console sales |
Handheld console sales |
Total sales |
---|---|---|---|
Nintendo | 382.65 million | 473.56 million | 856.21 million |
Home consoles
- See also: Best selling game consoles
Platform | Released | Sales (millions) |
Ref |
---|---|---|---|
Wii | 2006 | 101.63 | [1] |
Nintendo Switch | 2017 | 92.87 | [1] |
Nintendo Entertainment System | 1983 | 61.91 | [1] |
Super Nintendo Entertainment System | 1990 | 49.10 | [1] |
Nintendo 64 | 1996 | 32.93 | [1] |
Nintendo GameCube | 2001 | 21.74 | [1] |
Wii U | 2012 | 13.56 | [1] |
Super NES Classic Edition | 2017 | 5.28 | [2] |
NES Classic Edition | 2016 | 3.6 | [3] |
Color TV-Game | 1977 | 3 | [4] |
Virtual Boy | 1995 | 0.77 | [5] |
Handheld consoles
- See also: Best selling handheld consoles
Platform | Released | Sales (millions) |
Ref |
---|---|---|---|
Nintendo DS and DSi | 2004 | 154.02 | [1] |
Game Boy and Game Boy Color | 1989/1998 | 118.69 | [1] |
Game Boy Advance | 2001 | 81.51 | [1] |
Nintendo 3DS family | 2011 | 75.94 | [1] |
Game & Watch | 1980 | 43.4 | [6] |
Franchises
This list includes all Nintendo franchises that have crossed the 5 million mark. Sales data mostly based on Nintendo's official sales data.
- Mario (763.45 million)
- Super Mario (390.58 million)
- Mario Kart (159.82 million)
- Mario Party (60.86 million)
- Mario Sports (58.89 million)
- Mario RPGs (28.80 million)
- Pokémon (380.00 million)
- Wii Series (204.73 million)
- The Legend of Zelda (133.37 million)
- Donkey Kong (82.88 million)
- Animal Crossing (70.33 million)
- Super Smash Bros (66.95 million)
- Game & Watch (43.40 million)
- Kirby (41.07 million)
- Brain Age (34.60 million)
- Nintendogs (28.60 million)
- Duck Hunt (28.31 million)
- Yoshi (28.04 million)
- Wario (21.47 million)
- Luigi's Mansion (20.42 million)
- Metroid (18.14 million)
- Splatoon (17.63 million)
- Fire Emblem (16.25 million)
- Tomodachi (12.99 million)
- Ring Fit Adventure (12.21 million)[7]
- Star Fox (11.65 million)
- Big Brain Academy (9.49 million)
- Pikmin (7.46 million)
- Excite (6.02 million)
- Xenoblade Chronicles (5.88 million)
- Style Savvy (5.87 million)
- F-Zero (5.85 million)
- Clubhouse Games (5.71 million)
- Nintendo Land (5.20 million)[8]
- Rhythm Heaven (5.15 million)
Best-selling games
This list includes all Nintendo games that have crossed the 10 million mark. For rereleases and remasters of the same game, the sales data is combined.
- Wii Sports — Wii — 82.90 million
- Pokémon Red/Green/Blue/Yellow — GB/GBA/VC — 59.52 million
- Super Mario Bros. — NES/GBC/GBA/3DS(VC) — 48.24 million
- Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal — GBC/DS — 42.21 million
- Mario Kart 8 — Wii U/Switch — 39.63 million
- Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald — GBA/3DS — 37.62 million
- Mario Kart Wii — Wii — 37.38 million
- Tetris — NES/GB — 35.84 million
- Wii Sports Resort — Wii — 33.14 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons — Switch — 31.18 million
- New Super Mario Bros. — DS — 30.80 million
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii — Wii — 30.32 million
- Duck Hunt — NES — 28.31 million
- Wii Play — Wii — 28.02 million
- Super Mario World — SNES/GBA — 26.30 million
- Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum — DS — 25.27 million
- Pokémon Sun & Moon — 3DS — 25.09 million
- Nintendogs — DS — 23.96 million
- Super Mario Bros. 3 — NES/GBA — 23.71 million
- Mario Kart DS — DS — 23.60 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — Switch/Wii U — 23.14 million
- Super Mario 64 — N64/DS — 22.97 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate — Switch — 22.85 million
- Wii Fit — Wii — 22.67 million
- Wii Fit Plus — Wii — 21.13 million
- Pokémon Sword and Shield — Switch — 20.35 million
- Super Mario Odyssey — Switch — 20.23 million
- Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! — DS — 19.01 million
- Mario Kart 7 — 3DS — 18.92 million
- Super Mario Land — GB — 18.14 million
- Pokémon X & Y — 3DS — 16.49 million
- Pokémon Black & White — DS — 15.64 million
- New Super Mario Bros. U — Wii U/Switch — 15.63
- Super Smash Bros. 4 — 3DS/Wii U — 14.99
- Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day! — DS — 14.88 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time — N64/3DS — 13.82 million
- Super Mario Party — Switch — 13.82 million
- New Super Mario Bros. 2 — 3DS — 13.37 million
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl — Wii — 13.32 million
- Donkey Kong Country — SNES/GBC/GBA — 13.31
- Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) — NES/GBA — 13.03 million
- Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! & Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! — Switch — 13.00 million
- Animal Crossing: New Leaf — 3DS — 12.82 million
- Super Mario Galaxy — Wii — 12.80 million
- Super Mario All-Stars — SNES/Wii — 12.79 million
- Super Mario 3D Land — 3DS — 12.77 million
- Splatoon 2 — Switch — 11.90 million
- Animal Crossing: Wild World — DS — 11.75 million
- Super Mario Land 2 — GB — 11.18 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening — GB/GBC/Switch — 10.62 million
- Dr. Mario — NES/GB — 10.19 million
See also
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/index.html
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/180426e.pdf
- ↑ https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-software-and-hardware-sales-data-from-1983-to-present.2725/
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/clubn/game-and-watch-ball-reward/0/3
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.html
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/wiiu.html
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