
The NES restarted the video game industry after the video game crash of 1983, and was an international success. Their first systems to achieve worldwide success were the Game & Watch handheld series, before achieving greater worldwide success with the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), originally released as the Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan in 1983.

The company's first console, the Color TV-Game, was a success in Japan but was never released outside of Japan. As of September 30, 2021, in addition to Nintendo Switch, Nintendo has sold over 863.07 million hardware units. The Japanese multinational consumer electronics company Nintendo has developed seven home video game consoles and multiple portable consoles for use with external media, as well as dedicated consoles and other hardware for their consoles. A size comparison of the (top to bottom) Wii (2006), GameCube (2001), Nintendo 64 (1996), North American SNES (1991) and the NES outside of Japan (1985)
