When you’ve been developing games and hardware systems for as long as Nintendo has, it should come as no surprise that the gaming giant has shifted plenty of consoles over the years and after some number crunching, it seems Nintendo has plenty to celebrate.
According to the numbers they provided as part of their latest financial report, counting sales from both handheld and home consoles, Nintendo has shifted more than 725 million pieces of hardware sold and that’s not including sales from Virtual Boy, NES Classic, and SNES Classic. But not to leave it just there, here is the breakdown of hardware sales as shared by Gamnesia:
Nintendo Home Console Sales: (*All numbers in millions)
- NES — 61.91
- SNES — 49.10
- N64 — 32.93
- GameCube — 21.74
- Wii — 101.63
- Wii U — 13.56
- Switch — 19.67
Total: 300.54 million
Nintendo Handheld Sales: (*All numbers in millions)
- Game Boy — 118.69 (including Color)
- Game Boy Advance — 81.51
- DS — 154.02
- 3DS — 72.89
Total: 427.11 million
Collective Total: 727.65 million
Source: Gamnesia
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This post was written by Jack Longman