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.
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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
The race in numbers
4lead changes
45years covered
16contenders
PlayStation 2longest reign — 19 yrs at #1
Final standings · 2025
- 1PlayStation 2158M
- 2Nintendo Switch152M
- 3PlayStation 4117M
- 4PlayStation 578.0M