Engineering:List of best-selling game consoles

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The following table contains video game consoles that have sold at least 1 million units worldwide either through to consumers or inside retail channels. Each console includes sales from every iteration unless otherwise noted. The years correspond to when the first version of each console was released (excluding test markets).

Best-selling consoles

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  Background shading and # indicates consoles currently on the market.

>Final sales are greater than the reported figure. See notes.

Notes

  1. Including Nintendo Switch Lite and OLED units
  2. Including Nintendo DS Lite, DSi and DSi XL units
  3. Nintendo only provided a combined sales total.[3] Before Game Boy Color's release in late 1998,[2] previous models sold 64.42 million units combined worldwide.[4]
  4. Including Game Boy Advance SP and Micro units
  5. 30.75 million sold by Sega worldwide as of March 1996,[11][12] not including sales of third-party licensed consoles from manufacturers such as Majesco Entertainment in the United States (which projected it would sell 1.5 million)[13] or Tec Toy in Brazil (listed separately)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Game Gear
    Sega announced that it had shipped 10.62 million Game Gear units by March 31, 1996,[11] but the Game Gear continued to be produced until April 30, 1997.[19]
    Sega Mark III/Master System
    Sega announced that it had shipped 10 million Sega Mark III/Master Systems by March 31, 1994,[20] but the Master System continued to be produced until April 16, 1996.[21]
  7. PlayStation Vita: Third-party estimates range from 10–15 million.[22] Glixel stated in June 2017 that 15 million were sold,[23] while the Electronic Entertainment Design and Research suggests several million less by the end of 2015.[24] Production ceased in Japan in March 2019.[22]
  8. Designed by Hudson and manufactured and marketed by NEC[25]
  9. Bandai released three WonderSwan iterations.[35] A March 2003 Famitsu article reported the original (March 1999)[36] and color (December 2000)[36] versions sold approximately 3 million units combined,[37] while the SwanCrystal (July 2002)[35] sold over 200 thousand units.[37] Bandai announced the transition from hardware to third-party development in February 2003 due to declining sales and would supply software to Nintendo's Game Boy Advance by March 2004.[38] Average weekly Famitsu sales during the transition were only a couple hundred units,[1] and the SwanCrystal went build to order starting in autumn 2003.[37] WonderSwan hardware designer Koto claimed over 3.5 million were sold.[39]
  10. Sega sold this amount as of April 2005.[40] Its successor launched on August 6, 2005.[41] Majesco re-manufactured and distributed the Pico in the United States starting at the end of 1999.[42]
  11. The ColecoVision reached 2 million units sold by the spring of 1984. Console quarterly sales dramatically decreased at this time, but it continued to sell modestly[49][50] with most inventory gone by October 1985.[51]
  12. Developed by The 3DO Company and manufactured by Panasonic, Sanyo, GoldStar and Creative Technology.
  13. Includes Quest 3S sales
  14. Coleco launched Telstar in 1976 and sold a million. Production and delivery issues, and dedicated consoles being replaced by electronic handheld games dramatically reduced sales in 1977. Over a million Telstars were scrapped in 1978, and it cost Coleco $22.3 million that year[50]—almost bankrupting the company.[61]
  15. This Philips-reported figure was in The New York Times on September 15, 1994.[63] The CD-i was discontinued in 1998.[64]

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