{"id":105045,"date":"2016-09-26T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=105045"},"modified":"2016-09-26T11:01:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T09:01:21","slug":"the-best-selling-consoles-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/105045-the-best-selling-consoles-of-all-time","title":{"rendered":"The best-selling consoles of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo? PlayStation? Sony?<\/p>\n

These are the consoles you grew up, the ones that were home to your favourite games and were responsible for thousands of hours in front of the TV.<\/p>\n

But which was the best?<\/p>\n

Despite how you feel about a console, nothing says more about a platform’s popularity\u00a0than cold, hard facts.<\/p>\n

Check out the bestselling videogame consoles of all time below:<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Best Selling Consoles (in millions of units)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Position<\/strong><\/td>\nPlatform<\/strong><\/td>\nNorth America<\/strong><\/td>\nEurope<\/strong><\/td>\nJapan<\/strong><\/td>\nRest of World<\/strong><\/td>\nGlobal<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nPlayStation 2 (PS2)<\/td>\n
53.65<\/center><\/td>\n
55.28<\/center><\/td>\n
23.18<\/center><\/td>\n
25.57<\/center><\/td>\n

\n157.68<\/strong><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nNintendo DS (DS)<\/td>\n

\n57.37<\/center><\/td>\n

\n52.07<\/center><\/td>\n

\n33.01<\/center><\/td>\n

\n12.43<\/center><\/td>\n

\n154.88<\/strong><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nGame Boy (GB)<\/td>\n

\n43.18<\/center><\/td>\n

\n40.05<\/center><\/td>\n

\n32.47<\/center><\/td>\n

\n2.99<\/center><\/td>\n

\n118.69<\/strong><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nPlayStation (PS)<\/td>\n

\n38.94<\/center><\/td>\n

\n36.91<\/center><\/td>\n

\n19.36<\/center><\/td>\n

\n9.04<\/center><\/td>\n

\n104.25<\/strong><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nWii (Wii)<\/td>\n

\n45.38<\/center><\/td>\n

\n33.75<\/center><\/td>\n

\n12.77<\/center><\/td>\n

\n9.28<\/center><\/td>\n

\n101.18<\/strong><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nPlayStation 3 (PS3)<\/td>\n

\n29.34<\/center><\/td>\n

\n34.41<\/center><\/td>\n

\n10.43<\/center><\/td>\n

\n12.39<\/center><\/td>\n

\n86.57<\/strong><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nXbox 360 (X360)<\/td>\n

\n48.95<\/center><\/td>\n

\n25.82<\/center><\/td>\n

\n1.66<\/center><\/td>\n

\n9.13<\/center><\/td>\n

\n85.56<\/strong><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nGame Boy Advance (GBA)<\/td>\n

\n40.39<\/center><\/td>\n

\n21.31<\/center><\/td>\n

\n16.96<\/center><\/td>\n

\n2.85<\/center><\/td>\n

\n81.51<\/strong><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nPlayStation Portable (PSP)<\/td>\n

\n21.41<\/center><\/td>\n

\n24.14<\/center><\/td>\n

\n20.01<\/center><\/td>\n

\n15.26<\/center><\/td>\n

\n80.82<\/strong><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nNintendo Entertainment System (NES)<\/td>\n

\n33.49<\/center><\/td>\n

\n8.30<\/center><\/td>\n

\n19.35<\/center><\/td>\n

\n0.77<\/center><\/td>\n

\n61.91<\/strong><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

What is your favourite console of all time? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is who is currently winning the “console wars”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":105047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,11681,4],"tags":[17576,21290,1870,21639],"class_list":["post-105045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-nintendo","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-best","tag-platform","tag-playstation","tag-selling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105173,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105045\/revisions\/105173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}