{"id":35747,"date":"2023-06-12T20:12:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T20:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.safebettingsites.com\/?p=35747"},"modified":"2023-06-12T20:12:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T20:12:50","slug":"nintendo-sold-557m-units-of-its-five-best-selling-handheld-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.safebettingsites.com\/2023\/06\/12\/nintendo-sold-557m-units-of-its-five-best-selling-handheld-consoles\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Sold 557M Units of its Five Best-Selling Handheld Consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Sony has dominated the high-end video game console market for almost three decades, the Japanese tech giant has never had much success with handheld gaming devices. That market is still dominated by one of its biggest rivals, Nintendo, which sold an impressive number of its consoles over the years.<\/p>\n

According to data presented by SafeBettingSites.com<\/a>, Nintendo sold 557 million units of Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Game Boy, Game Boy Advanced, and Nintendo 3DS, its five best-selling handheld consoles of all time.<\/p>\n

Nintendo DS is the Top-Selling Handheld Console of All Time with 154M in Lifetime Sales, only 4M Less than the PS2<\/strong><\/h3>\n

After the release of the original Game Boy almost 35 years ago, Nintendo had been carrying out a two-pronged approach with its game consoles having both a home console and a portable handheld console on the market. As the first example of this strategy, the 1990` Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy hit more than 160 million in combined sales, showing gamers supported this approach.<\/p>\n

The Japanese gaming giant kept the strategy going till the release of Nintendo Switch in 2017. Acting as both a portable and home console system, Switch became a smash hit in the gaming community reaching around 126 million in lifetime sales. But that is still 30 million units short compared to Nintendo DS, the best-selling handheld console ever.<\/p>\n