I know some of you will be interested in this so thought it was well worth a post. NeoGAF member Celine has obtained Nintendo sales data stretching all the way from 1983 to 2014 from the NES to the Wii U. There’s tons of charts detailing how many copies first party titles such as Super Mario Advance 3 all the way to current hits sold on Nintendo platforms. Be sure to check out the image gallery to find out how many units your favourite video game sold.
- Based on shipment data provided by Nintendo itself directly from their site or other reports which used Nintendo data
- Only games published by Nintendo which shipped more than 1 million are presented
- For games released on NES, GB/C,SNES, N64, GBA, GC their LTDs are updated as of December 2006 with a few exception (GC top selling software)
- 4 games released on DS, Wii, 3DS, Wii U their LTDs are updated as of December 2013 or March 2014 (top-selling games are updated as of March 2014)
- Only exception is Mario Kart 8 for which shipment data was taken from July 2014
- Hardware data is shipment provided by Nintendo itself as of March 2014
- Most of these figures can be considered close to definitive with the exception of 3DS and Wii U
- GB contains GBC sales units as the two are considered one single platform by Nintendo
- Every figure is in millions of units
- Includes bundled units and DL units
Thanks, Michelle
Woah!!! Data overload…………………*Head Explodes…*
-Taking over data storage-
…
-Head Module cannot process universal data, need more space-
Indeed, I think I’m going to need a self system reboot to get back to normal from how much data I need to comprehend…
Strangely enough, most of it is not useful
128GB not enough? You have 256? 512? 1TB?
The Wii U has been low on all of them… wow
The Wii U is 2 years old…
lol True but compared to the other consoles during its first 2 years, I’m sure it’s still lower than the other consoles… but what do I know? I’m only 15 years old boy who wished he could have experienced all these consoles
To a certain extent, you are indeed correct, Wii U software is most likely the lowest out of all the other Nintendo consoles over there respective 2 year span on sale. But I would assume that NES was lower, because, A. Nintendo had just started off so were not well known in the market, B. Super Mario Bros(1) released after the 2 year mark of the NES which shifted momentum towards the NES and C. The Video Game Crash of 1983…
Wait until it turns 5 years old to see if it beats GameCube total sales or not to say something about it.
Yep keep on waiting
And as we wait for that, how about you worry about waiting for PSN to be restored back online with a legit measurement of proper security that’s beyond overdue and to think Sony should learn their lesson from 2011’s PSN attack…
Hackers have no need to go after Nintendo. The release of a popular title or a major holiday has the same affect on Nintendo’s servers as a brute-force hack-attack. ;)
At least our data is secure!
Exactly. Nintendo’s business is cleaner to not attract the worst of all pissed off and envist hackers.
You mean to tell me as much money Sony is making off PS4 and PSN still down? What is Sony doing with the PS4’s income? That’s not acceptable.
They ain’t making money dude. Whatever they’re making, they’re losing double or triple of that at the same time.
Uh no they aren’t
Look at yheir current and past financials since PS3 especially with the recent huge hack attacks from N. Korea over a comedy movie. They’re losing more than they’re gaining. In my opinion, they should just converge into the gaming business which is where the only couple of business areas they do best these days.
It’s not even down anymore
Seems like that’s the only argument you can make nowadays when I mention something even remotely negative about Nintendo
Which of course it isnt. Its wishing death upon a company that did nothing terrible to deserve such thing. Sony, not exactly but they’re fools for letting the hack attacks keep happening and Microsoft..well, they pretty much deserved it for their greed and deception on consumers and gaming.
Go stranga burn this clown!!!
Go annonymous keep on uh… Posing as Sasori and constantly replying to me?
That’s wats up
For one reason, it hasn’t gone through it’s life cycle yet. There are many more sales to be had on Wii U First Party software…
You’re right. We’ll have to see!
The Wii U (and 3ds) data is kind of outdated. The hardware sales that are listed are from ~March of last year. Nintendo is at over 8million units sold on the Wii U, if I recall correctly. Probably a good handful more, seeing that December/Holiday season just finished up. But, still, 8 million isn’t that impressive.
Thanks for posting this. Was pretty interesting.
r/dataisbeautiful
sicker if you were posting on New year’s eve where were you when you were posting the news i thout you were not home and thout you were going to miss the ball drop in new york.
this is fantastic! all this accurate data in one place! thanks michelle
Paper Mario Sticker Star sold more than the original and The Thousand Year Door? Man- that is really sad…
F Zero GX didn’t even sell a million copies- that might explain why the game sells for a pretty penny.
That’s a surprising amount of Game and Watch games sold. Weren’t they- like- similar to those old video-game esche McDonalds toys? Did not know they sold that well.
The Wii U and 3ds million dollar sellers are pretty lackluster. I mean- the 3ds has a lot of good games on it, but some of the ones listed are a tad overated.
Well There’s more owners of 3DS’ than GameCubes.
The fact that nintendogs+cats got more sales than fire emblem:awakening just goes to show that majority of 3ds owners are kids, and nintendo will keep on ignoring the masses regarding the issue about region-locking because most of these kids dont even know what an ugly shit it is. Lol fk you nintendo.
Doomed since n64.
most 3ds owners kids
3ds sucksessor sucks
Help me bring Naruto Storm 4 to the Wii U https://www.change.org/p/bandai-namco-games-please-bring-naruto-shippuden-ultimate-ninja-storm-4-to-the-nintendo-wii-u
is naruto still a thing?
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