{"id":37135,"date":"2018-08-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/the_top_10_best-selling_nintendo_3ds_games_as_of_june_2018"},"modified":"2018-08-01T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T13:00:00","slug":"the-top-10-best-selling-nintendo-3ds-games-as-of-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/01\/the-top-10-best-selling-nintendo-3ds-games-as-of-june-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 10 Best-Selling Nintendo 3DS Games (As Of June 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/the_top_10_best-selling_nintendo_3ds_games_as_of_june_2018\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/the_top_10_best-selling_nintendo_3ds_games_as_of_june_2018\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"3ds.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/the_top_10_best-selling_nintendo_3ds_games_as_of_june_2018\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/the_top_10_best-selling_nintendo_3ds_games_as_of_june_2018\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"3ds.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo recently shared its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_has_sold_19_67_million_switch_consoles_to_date\">latest financial results<\/a>, providing us with\u00a0sales-to-date figures for its current hardware and software lineups. We&#8217;ve already seen a list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_releases_complete_sales_figures_for_its_million-selling_switch_games\">Switch&#8217;s million-selling games<\/a>, but which games are sitting at the very top of the 3DS pile?<\/p>\n<p>Well, just before we share that exciting list, let&#8217;s explore how the console is performing\u00a0on the whole. The 3DS family of handheld systems has generated 72.89 million lifetime sales since its initial launch back in 2011, making it the fourth most popular Nintendo system of all time behind the Nintendo DS, Game Boy\/Game Boy Color, and the Wii. 5.81 million of those sales came last year, with 32.74 games being shifted in that year, too. The total software sales figure now stands at 367.84 million games sold.<\/p>\n<p>Now, without further ado, here\u2019s the 3DS\u2019 lifetime top ten (as of June 2018):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/mario_kart_7\"><strong>Mario Kart 7<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 17.21m<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_x_and_y\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon X and Y<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 16.31m<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_sun_and_moon\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Sun and Moon<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 16.12m<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_omega_ruby_and_alpha_sapphire\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 14.10m<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/new_super_mario_bros_2\"><strong>New Super Mario Bros. 2<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 12.70m<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/super_mario_3d_land\"><strong>Super Mario 3D Land<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 12.12m<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/animal_crossing_new_leaf\"><strong>Animal Crossing: New Leaf<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 11.78m<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/super_smash_bros_for_nintendo_3ds\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 9.30m<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_ultra_sun_and_ultra_moon\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 7.72m<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/tomodachi_life\"><strong>Tomodachi Life<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 6.25m<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Seeing Mario and Pok\u00e9mon dominate that handheld list comes as no surprise, although a lack of other top franchises such as <strong>The Legend of Zelda<\/strong> not breaking that top ten is a little shocking. With games like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/legend_of_zelda_ocarina_of_time_3d\"><strong>Ocarina of Time 3D<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/legend_of_zelda_majoras_mask_3d\"><strong>Majora&#8217;s Mask 3D<\/strong><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/legend_of_zelda_a_link_between_worlds\"><strong>A Link Between\u00a0Worlds<\/strong><\/a> on the system, we thought that one of them might just have grabbed that final spot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you surprised by any of these top ten 3DS games? Do you think the 3DS deserves the level of success that it has achieved so far? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo recently shared its latest financial results, providing us with\u00a0sales-to-date figures for its current hardware and software lineups. We&#8217;ve already seen a list of the Switch&#8217;s million-selling games, but which games are sitting at the very top of the 3DS pile? Well, just before we share that exciting list, let&#8217;s explore how the console is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}