Upon release, retailers struggled to meet the demand for the game. Diddy's Kong Quest sold a combined 4.37 million copies in the United States and Japan on the SNES; the total number of copies sold in Japan at 2.21 million, and 2.16 million in the United States. It was the second best-selling game of 1995, after Yoshi's Island, and the sixth best-selling game on the SNES.
Upon release, retailers struggled to meet the demand for the game. Diddy's Kong Quest sold a combined 4.37 million copies in the United States and Japan on the SNES; the total number of copies sold in Japan at 2.21 million and 2.16 million in the United States. It was the second best-selling game of 1995, after Yoshi's Island, and the sixth best-selling game on the SNES.