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Nintendo by the numbers: 58.5M 3DS handhelds and 12.8M Wii U consoles sold to date

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo’s unit sales numbers for fiscal 2016 are out today, and the Japanese company updated its sales of consoles sold as well.

Here’s how the numbers look: To date, Nintendo has sold 58.85 million Nintendo 3DS handhelds. It has sold 101.63 million Nintendo Wii consoles, and it has sold just 12.8 million Wii U systems. It has sold 274 million copies of 3DS software, 914 million copies of Wii software, and 84 million copies of Wii U software.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.