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Best-Selling PlayStation Consoles of All Time

PS2, PS4, PS1, PS5, PS3, PSP and Vita ranked by lifetime units — checked against Sony's own business data.

7 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	✓	—	✓	—
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	✓	—	✓	—
12	PlayStation Portable	Sony	handheld	2004	80 M	—	✓	—	—	—
25	PlayStation Vita	Sony	handheld	2011	16 M	—	✓	—	—	Sony does not disclose Vita unit sales; figure is a press estimate

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.