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Top 10 · Tech & PhonesNintendo's biggest hardware hits, home and handheld, ranked by units sold from the Switch to the Switch 2.
The Nintendo Switch is Nintendo's best-selling console, with 157.2 million units sold and counting. The Nintendo DS is second at 154.02 million and the Game Boy and Game Boy Color third at 118.69 million.
How it's ranked: Units sold, as listed on Wikipedia's List of best-selling game consoles. Consoles still on sale can still move up.
Nintendo · Hybrid console · released 2017
Nintendo's best-selling console ever.
The Nintendo Switch has sold 157.2 million units and is still on sale. Released on March 3, 2017, it works as a home console in its dock or as a handheld, with detachable Joy-Con controllers.
Nintendo · Handheld · released 2004
The best-selling handheld ever.
The Nintendo DS sold 154.02 million units, the most of any handheld. Released worldwide in 2004 and 2005, it paired two screens - the lower one a touchscreen - in a clamshell case, and was among the first portables with wireless local multiplayer.
Source: en.wikipedia.org › Nintendo_DS
Nintendo · Handheld · released 1989, 1998
The handheld that made portable gaming mainstream.
The Game Boy and Game Boy Color are counted together at 118.69 million units. The original launched in Japan on April 21, 1989 and was Nintendo's first handheld with interchangeable cartridges, built for battery life and durability over color graphics.
Source: en.wikipedia.org › Game_Boy
Nintendo · Home console · released 2006
Nintendo's best-selling home-only console.
The Wii sold 101.63 million units after its November 19, 2006 North American release. Its motion-sensing Wii Remote helped Nintendo reach a broader audience than traditional gamers.
Source: en.wikipedia.org › Wii
Nintendo · Handheld · released 2001
The Game Boy's powerful successor.
The Game Boy Advance sold 81.51 million units. Nintendo released it in Japan on March 21, 2001, with a much more powerful ARM7 processor than the Game Boy Color while still playing older Game Boy games.
Nintendo · Handheld · released 2011
The DS successor with 3D built in.
The Nintendo 3DS sold 75.94 million units. Released from early 2011 as the successor to the DS, it kept the clamshell design and DS compatibility and added autostereoscopic 3D that works without glasses.
Source: en.wikipedia.org › Nintendo_3DS
Nintendo · Home console · released 1983
The console that revived home video games.
The Nintendo Entertainment System, released as the Family Computer in Japan on July 15, 1983, sold 61.91 million units. It launched nationwide in the United States on September 27, 1986 and was Nintendo's first programmable home console.
Nintendo · Home console · released 1990
Nintendo's 16-bit hit.
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System sold 49.1 million units. It was released as the Super Famicom in Japan on November 21, 1990 and in North America on August 23, 1991.
Source: en.wikipedia.org › Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System
Nintendo · Home console · released 1996
Nintendo's first 3D home console.
The Nintendo 64 sold 32.93 million units. Released in Japan on June 23, 1996, it was Nintendo's third major home console and competed with Sony's PlayStation and the Sega Saturn.
Source: en.wikipedia.org › Nintendo_64
Nintendo · Hybrid console · released 2025
Nintendo's newest console, climbing fast.
The Nintendo Switch 2 has sold 26.35 million units since its June 5, 2025 release. Like the original Switch it works as a handheld or docked, and its larger Joy-Con 2 controllers attach magnetically and work like a computer mouse.
The Nintendo Switch, with 157.2 million units sold.
The Wii, with 101.63 million units, if you count the Switch as a hybrid.
26.35 million units since its June 5, 2025 release.
No. It sold 21.74 million units, just below the Switch 2.
It was Nintendo's first programmable home console, released as the Family Computer in 1983.
Units sold, as listed on Wikipedia's List of best-selling game consoles. Consoles still on sale can still move up. Every number on this page comes from the source linked under each pick, and every photo shows the actual product. Brands can't pay to be on this list.
List source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles · Updated 2026-11-11