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Nintendo Game and Watch
Nintendo opened its first subsidiary in NY in 1980 and launched the first sales of Nintendo Watches and its first handheld games. Each device only featured one game and became wildly popular. -
Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES 8 bit)launched: you could get a copy with only Super Mario Brothers for around 99 dollars, or you could get the deluxe version with two games, Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt, for 199 dollars; this system was wildly popular and sold over 60 million units. -
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Nintendo Entertainment System (NES 8bit)
In 1983, Nintendo Launched its first home gaming system, the NES 8bit which became the best selling console of its time, single handedly helping the gaming industry in Northern America to recover from the the gaming crash where the market was over flooded with gaming systems no one brought earlier in 1983 by selling just over 60 million units. -
Nintendo Game Boy
The Nintendo Game Boy handheld Console was released. The same team that worked on the popular games and watches series was also responsible for the Gameboy handheld unit. Still, unlike that unit, this handheld was like a smaller version of the home unit that allowed its users to play multiple games using swappable cartridges. Like its counterpart, it was popular, selling out 300,000 units. -
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Nintendo Game Boy & Nintendo Game Boy Color
In addition to the Game Boy, the Game Boy Color was released in 1998; the color units were also top-rated, and ultimately, sales were estimated at over 120 million units. -
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES 16bit)
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System was Nintendo's second home console, now competing with Sega's entertainment system. By upgrading to 16bit and adding new games, the SNES held its own in America, selling over 50 million units. -
Nintendo N64
The Nintendo 64 was the last home console that Nintendo offered that required cartridges; it had a 64bit CPU processor that allowed it to compete with other gaming systems out at the time, but it was really the games, of Super Mario 64, The Legend Of Zelda, and GoldenEye 007 that kept the franchise alive by selling 33 million units -
Nintendo Game Cube
Nintendo Game Cube for this home gaming console the Nintendo changed over to an optical disc format. The competition was stiff at this point, with over five other major game consoles out. The Game Cube only sold 22 million units and was considered a flop for the market then. -
Game boy Advanced
The Game Boy Advanced was just an upgrade to an already aging concept of handheld games and had lackluster success. It held its own because of the amount of games offered -
Nintendo DS
Nintendo completely refreshed the Game Boy design by adding a dual-screen setup. The Nintendo also featured an LCD screen and touchscreen technology instead of outdated controllers. -
Nintendo Wii
The Nintendo Wii ushered in a new era of 3D motion gaming using the hand-held remote controller device to track the player's movements during the game. They even eventually added a balance board to aid with fitness games. -
Nintendo Wii U
The Wii U was a handheld console with stellar graphics and touchscreen technology that finally allowed the gaming system to compete with PlayStation 4 and the Xbox competitors. Even with its fanfare, it was still considered a commercial fail since it only sold 13 million units. -
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NES Classic Mini, and SNES Classic Mini
Both the NES Classic Mini and the SNES Classic Mini edition were miniature versions of the classic consoles and were both prevalent. NES Mini sold 2.8 million units, and the SNES Classic Mini edition sold upwards of 5 million units before being discontinued in 2018 -
Nintendo Switch
The Nintendo Switch is a tablet-like device because it has touchscreen technology and the flexibility of being a handheld and a docking station for at-home use. The appropriately named Nintendo Switch offers the best of both worlds, being a handheld and a home console, and has been an enormous success -
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The Nintendo switch, Nintendo switch OLED, and Nintendo switch light
While the Switch has a dock, the Switch Lite and OLED upgrades have allowed the Switch the flexibility to be an entirely handheld device and even allowed for better controllers. Selling over 75 million units since its release, the switch is poised to be around for a while.