Nintendo · Handheld · Released 2011

Nintendo 3DS: 75.94 million units sold

The Nintendo 3DS is the #13 best-selling gaming machine of all time in this dataset. Handheld and dedicated devices are not assigned a home-console generation here.

• 75.9MUnits sold
• #13All-time rank
• —Generation
• 2011Released

Games released on the Nintendo 3DS hold 55 Game of the Year awards in this database, led by Super Smash Bros. with 28. A game counts for every machine it shipped on, so these totals overlap between consoles. The most-awarded games on it: Super Smash Bros. (28, 2014); The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (6, 2013); Shovel Knight (4, 2014).

The sales figure comes from Wikipedia, List of best-selling game consoles.

Of the 15 Nintendo machines tracked here, it is number 6 by units sold, behind Nintendo Switch at 156.6 million.