Best-Selling Game Consoles of All Time 1978 - 2022 

This puts into perspective just how successful Nintendo’s portable endeavors have been. I didn’t realize how close the DS was to the PS2 though.

Can we just take a minute to appreciate that the Atari 2600, first sold in 1978, wasn't bumped from the top 10 list for 28 years (2006).

PS2 was the perfect product for the perfect time. Like everything going for it. DVD players were expensive so here comes a long a DVD player that can play PS1 and new games as well as music cds for less than the cost of a regular DVD player. I don't think anything else will reach that ever again.

The PS2 doubling as a DVD player was the selling point I gave to my parents when I was a kid, as I'm sure millions of other kids did too 😂

Nintendo's marketing strategy for the Switch was nothing short of genius, probably the fastest selling console in the list.

PS2 was so ahead of its time. Great memories

The PS2 was perfect and it came out at the perfect time. It had cool games, it was backward compatible and a lot of people's first-ever DVD player - that was huge. Why buy a DVD player when you can just buy a PS2?

the run of the NES is legendary. it was still selling in 98!

Crazy to see how neck & neck PS3 & 360 were. Most other console head-to-heads were complete blowouts.

What an emotional roller coaster to be a part of Atari, Sega, Nintendo, and Sony at the same time

PS4 & Nintendo Switch have been 2 very successful modern day game consoles. Goes to show that the industry isn't dying after all.

The PS2 came during the time that could be considered the golden age of gaming and it just had the best library of any console ever, no wonder it's still the top seller.

It's incredible just how many more consoles Nintendo and Sony have sold compared to everyone else over the years. The current generation of consoles still has a way to go to even make the top 15.

Small suggestion, when you reach the end of the the video where you show the latest statistical please pause the video for like 5 seconds so we can get a look at the the current results. ( i try to pause but I always miss it lol) great videos.

For those wondering, PS5 just recently hit 28M units worldwide. Thanks Covid-19 for making computer parts in short supply.

P2 was such a big seller because it doubled as a DVD player, I know a lot of people bought it because of that.

No console will ever give its players the feelings the PS2 gave us. So many memories of amazing games on the peak of the golden age of gaming. Truly the greatest console of all time.

Nintendo has been in this game for more than 40 years. Its crazy.

I miss the GameCube... it was such a fantastic console and experience I hate that it was taken as just for kids but it was such a great machine and needs a relaunch

This was so interesting in multiple ways. Thanks for this one!

Interesting to see how many fewer sales were made for Xbox, considering the messaging media tends to give off is that Xbox and PlayStation are kind of the two big giants battling it out in the markets with Nintendo kind of just chillin on the sidelines. When in reality Nintendo and PlayStation really have the most power in the industry, at least according to this chart. Seems like the only reason Xbox stands a chance is because they are owned by Microsoft. EVERYONE I knew talked about Xbox growing up, very few spoke about PlayStation. Maybe Xbox gamers were kind of a niche culture while PlayStation was simply thought of as a vessel for people to experience the games reliably? Or maybe PlayStation was simply more successful worldwide with Xbox selling more in the states? Someone clue me in on this xD

Glad to have you back! Missed your content!

This one was a great pick for an update! Data like this gets out of date fast.

That was SUPER informative. Love it! You're pumping out the great content quite a bit lately. I hope it continues.

I had no idea how poorly the original x-box did. And the poor WiiU didn't even make it onto the screen (i think).

Wow! The Nintendo DS almost came close to dethroning the PS2 as king, but in the end it didn't.

Just read your description and I wanted to say congrats, I hope that everything goes well for you

so awesome to see you uploading again!

I hope it is still active as before, it will bring me very good memories of that 2019 when there was no Covid and I watched this spectacular channel, which in fact is the first statistics channel to which I subscribed. Greetings and congratulations dad. I don't have a cup of coffee, but a big welcome.

I have missed these sooo much!! Welcome back!🙂♥️🙂♥️

Still have my original PS2 from the year 2000 and it works just as well today as it did back then. They just don’t build electronics to last anymore, sadly.

Brilliant video. Loved seeing the Super NES/Sega Genesis and the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 sales battles play out ❤️

Spent hundreds of hours playing SOCOM 4 multiplayer on PlayStation 3. Man that was a great game.

This is awesome, happy to see your videos again.

Cheers for including the Magnavox Odyssey. This was my first game console, it is usually overlooked in such videos.

In the end it is a fight between Nintendo and Sony. Nintendo dominating Handheld Consoles and Sony dominating Home Consoles.The Vita and the Wii U didn't even make an appearance.

Nintendo held a majority of the spots in the list for most of the video. It just goes to show how a company that started off as a playing card company can turn into a multi-billion dollar entertainment empire.

PS2 is our Emotions ❤

OMG! thank you so much for making this😄

That dancing robot is so funny

Nice video man!

Oh generally, very nice, that you are back with a lot of beautiful data :-)

what a snazzy little dancing robot, cool vid

My number 1 favorite statistics channel is back!!! :)

The way the Nintendo DS shot up to second place… I’ve never been a huge gamer but even I had a DS (I still have it, fun fact). I remember when all the neighborhood kids would get together and we would all play our DS’s :) ahhh, memories :)

And still, Japanese gaming console are the best sellers of all time that Samsung and Apple couldn't even dare to enter

3:06 As soon as I saw it on the screen, I was like “oh boy oh boy, here comes the PlayStation 2, ready to move fast and kick ass!” Don’t get me wrong, I love the Switch. It’s probably my favorite console now. Makes me feel like a kid again 😊 …but when I actually WAS a kid, the PlayStation 2 was king, and it gave me some of the greatest gaming experiences of my young life. The Switch might be my fave now, but the PS2 wins the Lifetime Achievement Award of my soul. I still have it and all my memory cards, too! Works great, even after all these years!

Love the presentation as always, but missed the owl - it could've interacted with the dancing robot, too - perhaps 🤗

Welcome Back brother

poor Sega, i love the company

My first one was the Odyssey in 1977 and then the Atari 2600 in 1981. I still remember my mother buying the Atari 2600 for me, it was just over $200 with tax. We did not have a lot of money, I don't know how she did it. That is the same as $650 today. Then I got the ColecoVision with the Atari 2600 expansion slot. In 1987 I got the NES that came with the robot. Then I had the 3DO system that costed like $700 in 1993 on release day. $700 in 1993 is the same as $1400 today. After that it has been nothing but computers.

I really like the music in this one! And the dancing robot. 🙂

Wow youre on fire rn, love it

Great to see you back. Would love to see rocket launches

Congratulations for the video, you are very good

It's possible to get goosebumps from looking at data.

It’s so sad to see how badly the GameCube did despite being such an amazing console

Sega Dreamcast FOREVER

This well-made video illustrates that the deal between Sony & Nintendo to make the Nintendo Playstation would have most likely resulted in a monopoly and thus it was a good thing it didn’t.

YOURE BACK!!

The PS2 is still the best gaming system of all time. IMO, because of all the all time classic games released on it. That was the gold age of gaming.

He is at it again 🎉

In the last decade the market has essentially become a duopoly

I started my life as a player on the Atari 2600, a lot of nostalgia with Atari, however the video game of my heart is the Mega Drive, by the way, the Sega consoles were sensational.

Nice video! :)

Nintendo is incredible at marketing, they can continually come up with gimmicks to sell their products. I don't know if I would call them inferior but it just shows that simplicity often sells. Games are almost too real and movie like these days and tens of millions of people just want a quick easy to pick up game to buy and Nintendo continues to deliver just that.

Things I noticed: Every first console struggled in the beginning. But the PS1 (first sony console) got boosted up from the beginning, anyone an idea why? What was their strategy?

The Fairchild VES (Channel F) was released in 1976, your title says 1978-2022. The Channel F would have started out this graph at #1 since the Atari VCS didn't even exist yet. It was also the first to have an easter egg in a home video game cartridge (#4 Spitfire also from 1976) where it displays programmer Michael K. Glass.

The ps2 really was the best times, remember when the game boy Color came out, gezz

The Sega Genesis able to stick around until 2018 and the Game and Wat h until 2019, nice

Wait! Nintendo was still selling brand new NES consoles up until 2003??

love your visualisation, which application is it?

Nice that your back

YES! I WAIT THIS ALL MY LIFE

The Switch is passing the PS4 and Gameboy this holiday

Never count out Nintendo. That's the lesson from this.

I would like to see some game releases or price drops to show why consoles got boosts in sales

I love these videos

My family had TI Texas instrument gaming system. I guess we were the only family to have this!

Here before 1k views. Feels good

I knew the Xbone was getting blowned out by the PS4 but goddamn I didn’t how large of a margin it was.

Can you do a video about James Bond? Maybe something like the top grossing Bond films or the best gadgets. Something like that.

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Wich program do you use to create those graphics?

It would be interesting to see what each of these cost along with units sold

According to what I seen on Wikipedia The Master system sold 20 million. Sega Saturn sold 9.2 million. Dreamcast sold 9.5 million. But who knows how reliable those numbers are...

What on Earth happened with 3DS? It doesn't even enter the list until 2016 Q3 - 5 years after it's launch - yet as soon as it gets on the list it skyrockets up. I know it had a slow launch, but was 2016 really such a huge year for it that it managed to triple its sales from the previous 5 years combined?

I´m glad that you´re back, but it feels strange when the Music isn´t Heaven and Hell - for me this Track is your Signature-Move.

I like the robot dancing at the bottom and never losing the rhythm

What did you use to make this?

I'm surprised how long it took for ps4 and xbox 1 to catch on and how far ahead ps4 was. Also the NES & SNES stayed on the list the whole time. I see the switch might be in the runnings to become the most sold console of all time if they don't end up releasing something next year. If they go another year, it'll be the longest Nintendo's gone without releasing a new home console

Magnavox Odyssey should be corrected to Magnavox Odyssey 2. Magnavox Odyssey sold only around 350k consoles and was discontinued in 1975

so weird, I thought sony playstation started way earlier. These videos set me straight on memories. I was thinking I was playing it in the late 80s after I moved out of my parent's home... where I had been on Atari.

There's a lot we don't know about when we were babies and toddlers. I was born in 1986

3:15 the music you use what is it it sounds amazing at 1.25x Speed

Had no clue the Game & Watch was doing numbers like that.

I have never heard about Nintendo Game & Watch LOL

Ps2 and DS was amazing imagine they sold that much without a circumstance like covid.

The music is the best and the Playstation Run.

Is this combining the numbers of Game Boy and Game Boy Color, or did Color just not sell well?