Best-Selling Video Game Consoles of All Time

About This Dataset

This chart ranks the best-selling video game consoles of all time by lifetime hardware units sold worldwide, measured in millions. It includes both home and handheld consoles from Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.

✨ AI Insight

Sony's PlayStation 2 remains the best-selling console ever at 160 million units, a record set in the 2000s that no successor has beaten. The Nintendo Switch has climbed to second at 155.92 million and the Nintendo DS follows at 154.02 million, showing how close the top three now sit. Nintendo places four systems in the top ten, split between home and handheld hardware, while Sony occupies five of the ten slots with every mainline PlayStation. Microsoft appears only once, with the Xbox 360 at over 84 million. The clustering of PlayStation 4, PlayStation and Wii around 100-117 million highlights how many platforms have crossed the hundred-million mark.

Source: Wikipedia (List of best-selling game consoles)

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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PlayStation 2 leads with 160 in All Time.

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Average value in All Time: 118 · median: 110.

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Gap in All Time: PlayStation 2 is 1.9× larger than Xbox 360.