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title: "Nintendo Switch officially outsold the NES worldwide"
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description: "Nintendo released their latest financial report which reveals that the Kyoto-based company shipped over 68.30 million Nintendo Switch consoles worldwide."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2020-11-08 10:20:26"
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Nintendo Switch officially outsold the NES worldwide | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Nintendo Switch officially outsold the NES worldwide](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-switch-officially-outsold-the-nes-worldwide.jpeg "Nintendo Switch officially outsold the NES worldwide")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-switch-officially-outsold-the-nes-worldwide.jpeg)Nintendo released their latest financial report which reveals that the Kyoto-based company shipped over 68.30 million Nintendo Switch consoles worldwide.

The first international video game console which was released by Nintendo was the Nintendo Entertainment System which sold a total of 61.91 million units worldwide.

With those newly announced figures Nintendo can clearly state that their latest hardware platform outsold their popular first home console.

## [](#outsold-nintendo-systems)Outsold Nintendo systems

- Wii U (13.56 million)
- GameCube (21.74 million)
- Nintendo 64 (32.93 million)
- SNES (49.10 million)
- NES (61.91 million)

Nintendo Wii we are coming for you … mark my words.

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