Wii Sports is the best-selling console game with a little over 82.65 million units shipped worldwide. Given that the top-selling Wii Sports console game was predominantly sold in a bundle with the hugely successful Wii console from Nintendo, it may come as no surprise that Wii Sports dominates the console game field with roughly 82 million units sold. The second best-selling console game of all time, Super Mario Bros. played on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), first reached the market in 1985, making it one of the oldest, most-loved and most-influential games worldwide. Played originally on the NES 8-bit video game console, Super Mario Bros. games have been developed for almost all of Nintendo’s later gaming consoles. As of September 2020, a Super Mario Bros. game for the Wii console had sold around 30 million units. As nearly two thirds of the global best selling games are linked with Nintendo, it is not surprising that the company made 15.99 billion U.S. dollars in sales in the company's fiscal year 2021.
All-time best-selling console games based on global unit sales as of March 2022
(in million units)
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