Over 11,000 physical video games have been released for Nintendo platforms across the last 39 years.
Nintendo has updated its historical game sales figures and the results are pretty interesting. According to the data, there have been 11,235 packaged video games released for Nintendo handhelds and consoles from the NES to the Switch. These numbers include games released across all worldwide regions, but do not include digital versions of games (the Switch eShop, for example, lists over 4,000 titles).
Below we have a breakdown of the titles released versus software sales. The DS reigns supreme in both metrics with over 2,100 games released and 948.76 million games sold. The Switch is in second place with 1,417 titles released in its five-year lifespan, but in third place in sales with 822.18 million software sales as of FY22.
Also remember that Nintendo sold nearly 5.4 billion games across its entire span of hardware...which is no small feat.
Nintendo Fiscal Year 2022 Content Index
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