Games & Play1980–2025

Best-Selling Game Consoles

Every home console since the Atari era, racing by cumulative lifetime sales. Watch the NES revive a dead industry, the PlayStation brand rule three generations, and the Nintendo Switch and PS2 fight over the all-time crown. Values are cumulative, so once a console stops selling its bar simply stops growing.

Source: Manufacturer shipment reports & VGChartz Lifetime hardware units, home consoles only (handhelds excluded). Recent totals are latest reported; discontinued consoles frozen at final figure. Updated 2026-07-03

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