Data table

Best-Selling Home Game Consoles of All Time

From the PlayStation 2 to the Atari 2600 — every TV-connected console ranked by lifetime units sold.

37 rows · Updated 2026-10-02 · Click a column to sort

Wikipedia's ordering by lifetime units sold			home / handheld / hybrid / dedicated (plug-and-play) / vr-headset	Year the first version launched (excluding test markets)	Lifetime worldwide units; includes variants unless noted	As-of or report date from the cited source; blank when the source gives none	False means Wikipedia marks it as currently on the market	Wikipedia notes final sales are greater than the figure shown	Figure comes from the console maker's own IR page, press release or financial statement (vs. trade press or estimate)	Notes
1	PlayStation 2	Sony	home	2000	160 M	2012-03-31	✓	—	✓	—
5	PlayStation 4	Sony	home	2013	117.2 M	2022-03-31	—	—	✓	—
6	PlayStation	Sony	home	1994	102.49 M	2012-03-31	✓	—	✓	—
7	Wii	Nintendo	home	2006	101.63 M	—	✓	—	✓	—
8	PlayStation 5	Sony	home	2020	95.3 M	2026-06-30	—	—	✓	Sell-in (shipments to retailers), including returned and refurbished units
9	PlayStation 3	Sony	home	2006	87.4 M	2017-03-31	✓	—	✓	—
10	Xbox 360	Microsoft	home	2005	84 M	2014-06	✓	—	—	—
14	Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System	Nintendo	home	1983	61.91 M	—	✓	—	✓	—
15	Xbox One	Microsoft	home	2013	58 M	—	✓	—	—	—
16	Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System	Nintendo	home	1990	49.1 M	—	✓	—	✓	—
17	Xbox Series X/S	Microsoft	home	2020	35 M	2026-02-25	—	—	—	Microsoft does not disclose units; figure is a third-party estimate
18	Nintendo 64	Nintendo	home	1996	32.93 M	—	✓	—	✓	—
19	Mega Drive/Genesis	Sega	home	1988	30.75 M	1996-03	✓	—	—	Excludes third-party licensed consoles (Majesco in the US, Tec Toy in Brazil, listed separately)
20	Atari 2600	Atari	home	1977	30 M	2012-11-12	✓	—	—	—
21	Xbox	Microsoft	home	2001	24 M	2006-05-10	✓	—	✓	—
23	Nintendo GameCube	Nintendo	home	2001	21.74 M	—	✓	—	✓	—
27	Wii U	Nintendo	home	2012	13.56 M	2026-06-30	✓	—	✓	—
28	Sega Mark III/Master System	Sega	home	1985	13 M	—	✓	—	—	—
29	V.Smile & V.Motion	VTech	home	2004	11 M	2015-10-13	✓	—	✓	Combined V.Smile and V.Motion line; Released 2004 and 2007 (year shown is the first)
30	PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16	NEC/Hudson Soft	home	1987	10 M	—	✓	—	—	Designed by Hudson, manufactured and marketed by NEC
31	Sega Saturn	Sega	home	1994	9.26 M	—	✓	—	—	—
32	Dreamcast	Sega	home	1998	9.13 M	2001-06-28	✓	—	✓	—
33	Master System (Brazilian variants)	Tectoy	home	1989	8 M	2016-05-12	✓	—	—	—
35	Dendy (famiclone)	Micro Genius	home	1992	6 M	2016-08-09	✓	—	—	—
37	Advanced Pico Beena	Sega	home	2005	4.1 M	2010-07-14	✓	—	✓	—
38	Sega Pico	Sega	home	1993	3.8 M	2005-04	✓	—	—	Majesco re-manufactured and distributed Pico in the US from late 1999
39	Intellivision	Mattel	home	1980	3.75 M	—	✓	—	—	—
43	Mega Drive (Brazilian variants)	Tectoy	home	1990	3 M	2012-07-30	✓	—	—	—
45	ColecoVision	Coleco	home	1982	2 M	1984	✓	✓	—	Wikipedia marks this as a minimum: final sales are greater than the figure shown
46	Magnavox Odyssey²	Magnavox/Philips	home	1978	2 M	—	✓	—	—	—
47	Sega SG-1000	Sega	home	1983	2 M	—	✓	—	—	—
49	3DO	The 3DO Company	home	1993	2 M	—	✓	—	—	Developed by The 3DO Company; manufactured by Panasonic, Sanyo, GoldStar and Creative
55	Atari 7800	Atari	home	1986	1 M	1988-06-01	✓	✓	✓	Production and support officially ended in 1992; Wikipedia marks this as a minimum: final sales are greater than the figure shown
56	Philips CD-i	Philips	home	1990	1 M	1994-09-15	✓	✓	✓	Discontinued in 1998; Wikipedia marks this as a minimum: final sales are greater than the figure shown
57	Atari 5200	Atari	home	1982	1 M	1984-05-22	✓	—	—	—
58	Pegasus (famiclone)	Micro Genius	home	1991	1 M	2015-05-15	✓	—	—	—
59	Nex Playground	Nex	home	2023	1 M	2026-03	—	—	✓	—

About this data

This is a filtered view of Best-Selling Video Game Consoles of All Time (59 rows). The ranking, console names, manufacturers, types, release years and unit figures are transcribed from Wikipedia's "List of best-selling game consoles" (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0; page last edited 2026-09-06, fetched 2026-10-02), which cites each figure to a manufacturer statement or trade press source. Rank follows Wikipedia's ordering. Figures are worldwide sell-in (units shipped to retail) or sell-through as reported by each maker; methodologies differ, so cross-era comparisons are approximate. For the current generation we fetched the primary pages on 2026-10-02: Nintendo IR "Dedicated Video Game Sales Units" (Switch 156.59 million, Switch 2 23.68 million, Wii U 13.56 million, 3DS 75.94 million, all as of 2026-06-30) and Sony Interactive Entertainment "Business Data & Sales" (PS5 more than 95 million as of 2026-06-30 with quarterly sell-in summing to 95.3 million; PS4 more than 117 million as of 2022-06-30; PS3, PS2 and PS1 as of March 2017/2012). All matched Wikipedia, so no figure was overwritten. Microsoft does not publish Xbox unit sales; Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S rows are third-party estimates and Xbox 360 is a 2014 company statement. "Discontinued" is derived from Wikipedia's "currently on the market" marker, and "Maker-reported" is true only where the figure comes from the console maker's own IR page, press release or financial statement. The as-of column is blank where the cited source gives no date. Wikipedia flags six rows as minimums (final sales greater than shown). Generation is not on the source pages and is omitted rather than inferred.