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Units sold Ref. PlayStation 2: Home Sony: 2000 160 million [1] Nintendo DS: Handheld Nintendo: 2004 154.02 million [20] Nintendo Switch # Hybrid Nintendo: 2017 146.04 million [20] [note 1] Game Boy & Game Boy Color: Handheld Nintendo: 1989, 1998 118.69 million [20] [note 2] PlayStation 4 # Home Sony: 2013 117.2 million [22] PlayStation: Home ...
Units sold Nintendo DS: Handheld Nintendo: 2004 53.8 million PlayStation 2: Home Sony: 2000 46.5 million [40] Nintendo Switch # Hybrid Nintendo: 2017 45.4 million [41] [40] Xbox 360: Home Microsoft: 2005 42.7 million [42] Wii: Home Nintendo: 2006 41.7 million [40] Game Boy & Game Boy Color: Handheld Nintendo: 1989, 1998 38.2 million Game Boy ...
The third-best-selling game is Wii Sports Resort, a sequel to Wii Sports, with sales of 33.14 million units. The console's top five is rounded out by New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which sold 30.32 million units and Wii Play, which sold just over 28 million units worldwide.
The Wii was a major success for Nintendo; in April 2007, the Wall Street Journal declared that Nintendo had "become the company to beat in the games business", citing the success of the Wii and the portable Nintendo DS line. [11] As of March 31, 2016, the Wii has sold 101.63 million consoles worldwide. [12]
Nintendo continued to sell the revised Wii model and the Wii Mini alongside the Wii U during the Wii U's first release year. During 2013, Nintendo began to sunset certain Wii online functions as they pushed consumers towards the Wii U as a replacement system or towards the offline Wii Mini, though the Wii Shop Channel remained available. [ 68 ]
With more than 101 million units sold, the Nintendo Wii is the best-selling home video game console in the seventh generation. The release of the Xbox 360 began the seventh generation. Video game consoles had become an important part of the global IT infrastructure by the mid-2000s. It was estimated that video game consoles represented 25% of ...
Crazy as it is to say, the Wii is now officially 10 years old. Its arrival on November 19, 2006 created a sensation while launching a thousand Wii Remotes into unsuspecting television screens.
Nearly 890,000 Wii U units were sold in the United States after 41 days on the market. [191] From the Wii U's launch till December 31, 2012, Nintendo reported that 3.06 million consoles and 11.69 million software units had been shipped worldwide. [173] In January 2013, Nintendo sold 57,000 Wii U units in the US. [192]