Best-Selling Video Game Consoles of All Time
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Best-Selling Video Game Consoles of All TimeSony'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.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia (List of best-selling game consoles)
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 10 observations
- Measure
- Units Sold (Millions)
- Last updated
- 12 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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