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Nintendo console sales: 903.1 million units

Nintendo has shipped 903.1 million gaming machines across 15 tracked products. Its biggest is the Nintendo Switch at 156.6 million. It sold the most hardware in 4 generations (3, 4, 7, 8).

  • 903MUnits shipped
  • 15Machines
  • 4Generations won
  • 3,459GOTY awards on them

Games playable on Nintendo hardware hold 3,459 Game of the Year awards in this database, each game counted once however many of its machines it shipped on. Games Nintendo published itself hold 820 of them, from 47 games, and won 1 season tracked at full breadth - the difference is explained in how many Game of the Year awards each platform has won. By generation: 3: Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System (61.9M); 4: Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System (49.1M); 5: Nintendo 64 (32.9M); 6: Nintendo GameCube (21.7M); 7: Wii (101.6M); 8: Nintendo Switch (156.6M), Nintendo Switch 2 (23.7M), Wii U (13.6M). Outside the home-console generations: Nintendo DS (154.0M), Game Boy & Game Boy Color (118.7M), Game Boy Advance (81.5M), Nintendo 3DS (75.9M), Super NES Classic Edition (5.3M), NES Classic Edition (3.6M), Color TV-Game (3.0M).

Every Nintendo machine

ConsoleMaker ReleasedUnits GOTY awards on it
Nintendo SwitchNintendo2017156.59M2,327
Nintendo DSNintendo2004154.02M9
Game Boy & Game Boy ColorNintendo1989118.69M3
WiiNintendo2006101.63M229
Game Boy AdvanceNintendo200181.51M0
Nintendo 3DSNintendo201175.94M55
Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment SystemNintendo198361.91M1
Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment SystemNintendo199049.10M4
Nintendo 64Nintendo199632.93M9
Nintendo Switch 2Nintendo202523.68M1,557
Nintendo GameCubeNintendo200121.74M90
Wii UNintendo201213.56M631
Super NES Classic EditionNintendo20175.28M1
NES Classic EditionNintendo20163.56M0
Color TV-GameNintendo19773.00M0

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