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.

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.

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).

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

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 😂

PS2 was so ahead of its time. Great memories

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 Data like this gets out of date fast.

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.

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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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

PS2 is our Emotions ❤

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 :)

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

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

Glad to have you back! Missed your content!

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.

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

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.

That dancing robot is so funny

so awesome to see you uploading again!

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

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

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

poor Sega, i love the company

This is awesome, happy to see your videos again.

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.

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

what a snazzy little dancing robot, cool vid

OMG! thank you so much for making this😄

Sega Dreamcast FOREVER

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.

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

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

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

In the last decade the market has essentially become a duopoly

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

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

Nice video man!

Wow youre on fire rn, love it

The Switch is passing the PS4 and Gameboy this holiday

I have played with Atari, NES, Playstation, Playstation4. OMG. Love the game industry.

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...

Congratulations for the video, you are very good

Welcome Back brother

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

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

Daaaaaaaam those Japan Konsoles 😍Ruled 4 Ever !

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

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

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

I love me some Nintendo always but omg PlayStation was so awesome too, wish I could go back to those times and preserve my games

Nice video! :)

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

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

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The top three consoles (PS2, Nintendo DS, and Game Boy) stopped selling units well before the end of the video and STILL stayed the top three! 😮

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.

He is at it again 🎉

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

As A Nintendo Player I Appericate The Sales Of Lifetime Consoles.

I have never heard about Nintendo Game & Watch LOL

love your visualisation, which application is it?

Nice that your back

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

I love these videos

Sega genesis will always top them all in my eye's😊

I almost feel like Sony was like "Microsoft has disconnected the 360, we're not discontinuing the PS3 until we have more total sales."

The music is the best and the Playstation Run.

5:45 I wonder why the PS4 got such a boost during the 4th quarter of 2020 😂

The Atari 2600 was the very first console I ever played on as a little boy in the 80s! I played pac man on it a lot. It was so much fun!

3 years gone and back with a vengeance!!

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.

The Japanese really know how to do video game consoles.

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

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I think that switch is going to beat PS2 in sales cause it has already sold over 130M units and is still one of the fastest selling consoles

Here before 1k views. Feels good

Wich program do you use to create those graphics?

not surprised to see playstation ahead of xbox in sales, my consoles throughout my life have been: Super Nintendo, N64, Playstation 1, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 5. And I live in Brazil, none of my friends have an xbox, we all have a playstation, and it's always been like that since we were kids. the playstation brand is very strong, and playstation 2 in particular, for the time it was released it was revolutionary: backwards compability, and also worked as a dvd player. I'm not surprised to see that the Playstation 2 alone has outsold all Xboxes combined, although I've owned multiple consoles over my lifetime, the Playstation 2 has stuck with me the most, and while it's outdated compared to more modern consoles, to me the playstation 2 will always be the golden age of gaming (GTA San andreas, Gran Turismo, Dragon Ball Budokai tekaichi 3, FIFA street, Shadow of the colossus, Okami, Resident Evil 4, Burnout 3, Devil May Cry 3, God of War, Winning eleven, Tales of the abyss, etc...)