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Wii: 101.63 million units sold

The Wii is the #7 best-selling gaming machine of all time in this dataset. It belongs to the 7th generation, where it placed #1 of 3 machines by units sold.

  • 101.6MUnits sold
  • #7All-time rank
  • 7Generation
  • 2006Released

Games released on the Wii hold 229 Game of the Year awards in this database, led by Super Mario Galaxy with 46. A game counts for every machine it shipped on, so these totals overlap between consoles. The most-awarded games on it: Super Mario Galaxy (46, 2007); Resident Evil 4 (38, 2005); The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (28, 2006).

Generation 7 counts 3 machines here, 273.0 million units between them; it was the best seller of them all. The sales figure comes from Wikipedia, List of best-selling game consoles.

Of the 15 Nintendo machines tracked here, it is number 4 by units sold, behind Nintendo Switch at 156.6 million.

Its generation rivals

ConsoleMaker Units vs Wii
PlayStation 3Sony87.40M-14.23M
Xbox 360Microsoft84.00M-17.63M

Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.