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The Top Ten Selling Games Consoles Of All Time

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The Top Ten Selling Games Consoles Of All Time.

The following tables contain video game consoles and handheld game consoles that have sold at least 1 million units worldwide either through to consumers or inside retail channels. Dedicated consoles are marked with an asterisk next to the platform's name, while current generation consoles are marked with a cross  The years correspond to when the video game console or handheld game console was first released. "year in video gaming". Manufacturers with a brown, green, red, blue, or violet background and the name Atari, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sega, or Sony, respectively have more than two consoles listed; those with a white background do not.

  Atari    Microsoft    Nintendo    Sega    Sony    Other 



The Nintendo DS product line are the best-selling handheld consoles, selling 153.98 million units worldwide. The original left sold 18.79 million units. The majority of sales came from the DS Lite  at 93.86 million units.


The last two members of the DS product line, the DSi  and DSi XL  helped to further drive sales, moving 41.33 million units combined.
Platform Manufacturer Released Units sold Ref.
PlayStation 2 Sony 2000 155 million 
Nintendo DS Nintendo 2004 153.98 million 
Game Boy includes color model Nintendo 1989 118.69 million 
PlayStation Sony 1994 102.49 million 
Xbox 360 Microsoft 2005 83.7 million 
Game Boy Advance Nintendo 2001 81.51 million 
PlayStation 3 Sony 2006 80 million 
PlayStation Portable Sony 2004 80 million
Nintendo Entertainment System Nintendo 1983 61.91 million 
Super Nintendo Entertainment System Nintendo 1990 49.10 million 
Nintendo 3DS  Nintendo 2011 42.74 million 
Sega Genesis Sega 1988 40 million 
Nintendo 64 Nintendo 1996 32.93 million 
Atari 2600 Atari 1977 30 million 
Xbox Microsoft 2001 24 million 
GameCube Nintendo 2001 21.74 million 
Master System Sega 1986 13--14.8 million 
Sega Game Gear Sega 1990 11 million 
Dreamcast Sega 1998 10.6 million 
TurboGrafx-16 NEC 1987 10 million 
Sega Saturn Sega 1994 9.5 million 
PlayStation 4  Sony 2013 7 million 
Wii U  Nintendo 2012 5.86 million 
Xbox One  Microsoft 2013 5.1 million 
PlayStation Vita  Sony 2011 4 million 
Atari 7800 Atari 1986 3.77 millionBandai 1999 3.2--3.5 million 
Color TV Game  Nintendo 1977 3 million 
Intellivision Mattel 1980 3 million 
N-Gage Nokia 2003 3 million 
ColecoVision Coleco 1982 2 million 
3DO Interactive Multiplayer Panasonic 1993 2 million 
Magnavox Odyssey Magnavox/Philips 1978 2 million 
Neo Geo Pocket includes color model  
Atari Lynx Atari 1989 1 million 
Telstar Coleco 1976 1 million 
Atari 5200 Atari 1982 1 million 
Sega Noma Sega 1995 1 million

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