List of best-selling game consoles

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The following table contains video game consoles that have sold at least 1 million units worldwide either through to consumers or inside retail channels. Each console includes sales from every iteration unless otherwise noted. The years correspond to when the first version of each console was released (excluding test markets).

Best-selling consoles

  • Sony's PlayStation 2 is the best-selling console, with 160 million units sold worldwide.
    Sony's PlayStation 2 is the best-selling console, with 160 million units sold worldwide.[1]
  • The Nintendo Switch is the second best-selling console of all time and the best selling console that is currently on the market, selling 155.92 million units worldwide.
    The Nintendo Switch is the second best-selling console of all time and the best selling console that is currently on the market, selling 155.92 million units worldwide.[2]
  • The Nintendo DS is the third best-selling console, with 154.02 million units sold worldwide.
    The Nintendo DS is the third best-selling console, with 154.02 million units sold worldwide.[2]
  Background shading indicates consoles currently on the market.
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Platform Type Company Released[2] Units sold Ref.
PlayStation 2 Home Sony 2000 160 million [1]
Nintendo Switch Hybrid Nintendo 2017 155.92 million [2][note 1]
Nintendo DS Handheld Nintendo 2004 154.02 million [2][note 2]
Game Boy & Game Boy Color Handheld Nintendo 1989, 1998 118.69 million [2][note 3]
PlayStation 4 Home Sony 2013 117.2 million [5]
PlayStation Home Sony 1994 102.49 million [6]
Wii Home Nintendo 2006 101.63 million [2]
PlayStation 5 Home Sony 2020 93.7 million [7]
PlayStation 3 Home Sony 2006 87.4 million [1][8]
Xbox 360 Home Microsoft 2005 >84 million [9]
Game Boy Advance Handheld Nintendo 2001 81.51 million [2][note 4]
PlayStation Portable Handheld Sony 2004 >80 million [10]
Nintendo 3DS Handheld Nintendo 2011 75.94 million [2]
Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System Home Nintendo 1983 61.91 million [2]
Xbox One Home Microsoft 2013 ~58 million [11]
Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System Home Nintendo 1990 49.1 million [2]
Nintendo 64 Home Nintendo 1996 32.93 million [2]
Mega Drive/Genesis Home Sega 1988 30.75 million [note 5]
Atari 2600 Home Atari 1977 30 million [15]
Xbox Series X/S Home Microsoft 2020 28.3 million [16]
Xbox Home Microsoft 2001 24 million [17]
Nintendo GameCube Home Nintendo 2001 21.74 million [2]
Quest 2 VR headset Reality Labs 2020 ~20 million [18]
Nintendo Switch 2 Hybrid Nintendo 2025 >19.86 million [2]
Wii U Home Nintendo 2012 13.56 million [2]
V.Smile & V.Motion Home VTech 2004, 2007 11 million [19]
Game Gear Handheld Sega 1990 10.62 million [note 6]
PlayStation Vita Handheld Sony 2011 10-15 million (estimate) [note 7]
Sega Mark III/Master System Home Sega 1985 10 million [note 6]
PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 Home NEC/Hudson Soft[note 8] 1987 10 million [27]
Sega Saturn Home Sega 1994 9.26 million [13]
Dreamcast Home Sega 1998 9.14 million [28]
Master System (Brazilian variants) Home Tectoy 1989 8 million [29]
Leapster Handheld Leapfrog 2003 7 million [30]
Dendy (famiclone) Home Micro Genius 1992 6 million [31]
Super NES Classic Edition Dedicated Nintendo 2017 5.28 million [32]
Advanced Pico Beena Home Sega 2005 >4.1 million [33]
NES Classic Edition Dedicated Nintendo 2016 3.56 million [34][35]
WonderSwan & WonderSwan Color Handheld Bandai 1999, 2000 3.5 million [note 9]
Sega Pico Home Sega 1993 >3.4 million [note 10]
Color TV-Game Dedicated Nintendo 1977 3 million [44]
Intellivision Home Mattel 1980 3 million [45]
Mega Drive (Brazilian variants) Home Tectoy 1990 3 million [46][47]
N-Gage Handheld Nokia 2003 3 million [48]
Magnavox Odyssey² Home Magnavox/Philips 1978 2 million [49]
ColecoVision Home Coleco 1982 >2 million [note 11]
Sega SG-1000 Home Sega 1983 2 million [53][54]
Atari Lynx Handheld Atari 1989 >2 million [55]
3DO Home The 3DO Company[note 12] 1993 >2 million [56]
Neo Geo Pocket & Neo Geo Pocket Color Handheld SNK 1998, 1999 2 million [57]
Oculus Go VR headset Oculus 2018 >2 million [58]
Meta Quest 3 VR headset Reality Labs 2023 >1.7 million [59][note 13]
Mega Drive/Genesis Mini Dedicated Sega 2019 >1.5 million [60]
Telstar Dedicated Coleco 1976 >1 million [61][note 14]
Atari 5200 Home Atari 1982 1 million [63]
Atari 7800 Home Atari 1986 >1 million [note 15]
Philips CD-i Home Philips 1990 >1 million [note 16]
Pegasus (famiclone) Home Micro Genius 1991 1 million [67]
Nex Playground Home Nex 2023 1 million [68]
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>Final sales are greater than the reported figure. See notes.

Notes

  1. [1]
    Including Nintendo Switch Lite and OLED units
  2. [2]
    Including Nintendo DS Lite, DSi and DSi XL units
  3. [3]
    Nintendo only provided a combined sales total.[3] Before Game Boy Color's release in late 1998,[2] previous models sold 64.42 million units combined worldwide.[4]
  4. [4]
    Including Game Boy Advance SP and Micro units
  5. [5]
    30.75 million sold by Sega worldwide as of March 1996,[12][13] not including sales of third-party licensed consoles from manufacturers such as Majesco in the United States (which projected it would sell 1.5 million)[14] or Tec Toy in Brazil (listed separately)
  6. [6]
    Game Gear
    Sega announced that it had shipped 10.62 million Game Gear units by March 31, 1996,[12] but the Game Gear continued to be produced until April 30, 1997.[20]
    Sega Mark III/Master System
    Sega announced that it had shipped 10 million Sega Mark III/Master Systems by March 31, 1994,[21] but the Master System continued to be produced until April 16, 1996.[22]
  7. [7]
    PlayStation Vita: Third-party estimates range from 10–15 million.[23] Glixel stated in June 2017 that 15 million were sold,[24] while the Electronic Entertainment Design and Research suggests several million less by the end of 2015.[25] Production ceased in Japan in March 2019.[23]
  8. [8]
    Designed by Hudson and manufactured and marketed by NEC[26]
  9. [9]
    Bandai released three WonderSwan iterations.[36] A March 2003 Famitsu article reported the original (March 1999)[37] and color (December 2000)[37] versions sold approximately 3 million units combined,[38] while the SwanCrystal (July 2002)[36] sold over 200 thousand units.[38] Bandai announced the transition from hardware to third-party development in February 2003 due to declining sales and would supply software to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance by March 2004.[39] Average weekly Famitsu sales during the transition were only a couple hundred units,[1] and the SwanCrystal went build to order starting in autumn 2003.[38] WonderSwan hardware designer Koto claimed over 3.5 million were sold.[40]
  10. [10]
    Sega sold this amount as of April 2005.[41] Its successor launched on August 6, 2005.[42] Majesco re-manufactured and distributed the Pico in the United States starting at the end of 1999.[43]
  11. [11]
    The ColecoVision reached 2 million units sold by the spring of 1984. Console quarterly sales dramatically decreased at this time, but it continued to sell modestly[50][51] with most inventory gone by October 1985.[52]
  12. [12]
    Developed by The 3DO Company and manufactured by Panasonic, Sanyo, GoldStar and Creative Technology.
  13. [13]
    Includes Quest 3S sales
  14. [14]
    Coleco launched Telstar in 1976 and sold a million. Production and delivery issues, and dedicated consoles being replaced by electronic handheld games dramatically reduced sales in 1977. Over a million Telstars were scrapped in 1978, and it cost Coleco $22.3 million that year[51]—almost bankrupting the company.[62]
  15. [15]
    Atari reported on June 1, 1988 that the 7800 sold more than one million units to date.[64] Production and support of the 7800 was officially discontinued on January 1, 1992.
  16. [16]
    This Philips-reported figure was in The New York Times on September 15, 1994.[65] The CD-i was discontinued in 1998.[66]

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