Nintendo has announced via its latest press release detailing the Black Friday 2025 and Cyber Monday 2025 deals that it has now shifted over 6 billion video games and over 870 million units of video game hardware worldwide since the Nintendo Entertainment System launched in 1983.
Since the 1983 release of the Family Computer (Famicom) system in Japan, and continuing through Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo’s focus has been the development, manufacturing, and sale of its gaming systems and software. To date, Nintendo has sold more than 6 billion video games and over 870 million hardware units globally, and has created franchises such as Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, Metroid, Kirby, Animal Crossing, Pikmin, and Splatoon.
