{"id":121877,"date":"2017-11-06T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121877"},"modified":"2017-11-06T08:25:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:25:48","slug":"the-most-popular-video-game-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/121877-the-most-popular-video-game-consoles","title":{"rendered":"The most popular video game consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statista has released its latest report on the\u00a0lifetime sales of video game consoles<\/a><\/strong>, including the Sega Genesis, NES, and Atari 2600.<\/p>\n

According to the data, the PlayStation 2 boasts the highest lifetime units sold \u2013 almost 158 million.<\/p>\n

Sony\u2019s console is closely followed by the Nintendo DS and the Game Boy.<\/p>\n

The data used measures units sold across the product\u2019s lifetime on shelves, as of September 2017. This means the sales of consoles currently available from retailers are expected to grow.<\/p>\n

Despite the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 already being succeeded by more powerful devices, neither console managed to achieve the sales figures of the PS2.<\/p>\n

The most popular PlayStation and Xbox consoles ranked by lifetime units sold are shown below.<\/p>\n

PlayStation<\/h3>\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/th>\nConsole<\/th>\nUnits Sold<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\nPlayStation 2<\/td>\n158 million<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nPlayStation<\/td>\n104 million<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nPlayStation 3<\/td>\n87 million<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nPlayStation Portable<\/td>\n81 million<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nPlayStation 4<\/td>\n62 million<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nPlayStation Vita<\/td>\n16 million<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Xbox<\/h3>\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/th>\nConsole<\/th>\nUnits Sold<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\nXbox 360<\/td>\n89 million<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nXbox One<\/td>\n31 million<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nXbox<\/td>\n25 million<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Lifetime console sales<\/h3>\n

Nintendo\u2019s handheld consoles were extremely popular among consumers, with devices like the Nintendo DS and Game Boy selling more units than most consoles.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, the Nintendo Wii easily surpassed both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in lifetime sales, and the Nintendo Entertainment System boasts more than double the lifetime sales of the Xbox One.<\/p>\n

The ranking of lifetime video game console sales as of September 2017 is below.<\/p>\n

\"Statista<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Statista has released its latest report on the\u00a0lifetime sales of video game consoles, including the Sega Genesis, NES, and Atari 2600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":103727,"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":[6,3,11681,4],"tags":[73,1870,25339,243],"class_list":["post-121877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-nintendo","tag-playstation","tag-video-game-consoles","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121877","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121879,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121877\/revisions\/121879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}