Nintendo consoles have consistently ranked among the best-selling game consoles of all time.

The video game company, founded in 1889, released their first home gaming console, the Color TV-Game in 1977, and then their widely-known Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985.

Since then, the company hasn’t slowed down, having distributed a new console at least every five years until the release of the Switch in 2017.

This graphic visualizes the number of games and console units sold for each Nintendo console, as well as its release year and console type. The release dates represent U.S. release dates and console sale figures include variant models, such as the Switch Lite and Switch OLED.

The data comes from Nintendo and is updated as of March 2024.

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Which of these consoles do you play the most?

1985 NES0.0%

1989 Game Boy14.3%

1990 SNES14.3%

1996 Nintendo 6414.3%

2001 Game Boy Advance28.6%

2004 Nintendo DS0.0%

2006 Wii0.0%

2011 Nintendo 3DS0.0%

2012 Wii U0.0%

2017 Nintendo Switch28.6%

7 votes

22 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 26 Nov

My wife mostly plays the switch, but I've been a Nintendo fan since I got the OG NES as a kid.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 26 Nov

I marked Nintendo 64 because it's my all-time favorite, even though I don't have one anymore

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 26 Nov

Game boy was my first portable.. So many good memories.. Wii-U is super infravaluated.. It had amazing stuff.. Like that seconday remote with a screen.. I should chip my old wii U

Those 1.2B from Switch should thank us the 104M that bought the Wii-u :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @astro_penguin 26 Nov

I've never really figured out why they combine the Game Boy Color into the original. Even though they consider it a iteration on the Game Boy, not all of the color games could be used in the original!