Nintendo has sold more than 6 billion games, including nearly 1.5 billion Switch games alone

Nintendo is one of the oldest and most well-known gaming companies in the world, but how many games and systems has it sold over the years?

company say today The company currently sells more than 870 million systems and more than 6 billion games worldwide. Nintendo didn't provide details by platform, but Nintendo's public investor relations website Data shows that the original Switch sold 1.452 billion copies of games alone, and 154.01 million copies of the system. In fact, the Switch is only 10,000 units behind the DS (154.02 million). Becoming Nintendo's best-selling platform of all time.

Hardware sales are second only to Switch and DS, followed by Game Boy (118.69), Wii (101.63 million) and Game Boy Advance (81.51 million), ranking among the top five best-selling platforms of Nintendo.

In terms of game sales, the Switch 1 is way ahead. Following the Switch is the DS, with cumulative game sales of 948.76 million copies, followed by Wii (921.85 million copies), Game Boy (501.11 million copies), NES (500.01 million copies), and then 3DS (392.29 million copies).

Meanwhile, the Switch 2 launches in June 2025 and has Sales exceeded 10 million units in the first four months;More than 20.6 million games have been sold for the system. Nintendo also recently raised its sales forecast for the Switch 2, raising the console's sales forecast for this fiscal year from 15 million units to 19 million units, an increase of more than 26%.