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Nintendo GameCube: 21.74 million units sold

The Nintendo GameCube is the #23 best-selling gaming machine of all time in this dataset. It belongs to the 6th generation, where it placed #3 of 4 machines by units sold.

  • 21.7MUnits sold
  • #23All-time rank
  • 6Generation
  • 2001Released

Games released on the Nintendo GameCube hold 90 Game of the Year awards in this database, led by Resident Evil 4 with 38. A game counts for every machine it shipped on, so these totals overlap between consoles. The most-awarded games on it: Resident Evil 4 (38, 2005); The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (28, 2006); The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (8, 2003).

Generation 6 counts 4 machines here, 214.9 million units between them; the best seller was PlayStation 2 at 160.0 million. The sales figure comes from Wikipedia, List of best-selling game consoles.

Of the 15 Nintendo machines tracked here, it is number 11 by units sold, behind Nintendo Switch at 156.6 million.

Its generation rivals

ConsoleMaker Units vs Nintendo GameCube
PlayStation 2Sony160.00M+138.26M
XboxMicrosoft24.00M+2.26M
DreamcastSega9.13M-12.61M

Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.