The best-selling consoles of all time

Nintendo? PlayStation? Sony?

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.

But which was the best?

Despite how you feel about a console, nothing says more about a platform’s popularity than cold, hard facts.

Check out the bestselling videogame consoles of all time below:

Best Selling Consoles (in millions of units)
Position	Platform	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
1	PlayStation 2 (PS2)	53.65	55.28	23.18	25.57	157.68
2	Nintendo DS (DS)	57.37	52.07	33.01	12.43	154.88
3	Game Boy (GB)	43.18	40.05	32.47	2.99	118.69
4	PlayStation (PS)	38.94	36.91	19.36	9.04	104.25
5	Wii (Wii)	45.38	33.75	12.77	9.28	101.18
6	PlayStation 3 (PS3)	29.34	34.41	10.43	12.39	86.57
7	Xbox 360 (X360)	48.95	25.82	1.66	9.13	85.56
8	Game Boy Advance (GBA)	40.39	21.31	16.96	2.85	81.51
9	PlayStation Portable (PSP)	21.41	24.14	20.01	15.26	80.82
10	Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)	33.49	8.30	19.35	0.77	61.91

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WaDisMaD
27.09.2016 at 20:18

I like them all. But the 2 that stand out the most will be the Sega Mega Drive (the reason I became a gamer). 16 bit games still looks good up to this day, the same can not be said about 8 bit games. And the Nintendo 64, it was such a big leap from 16 bit and it brought so many innovations with it. Analog stick, rumble feature, Z trigger, 4 controller ports, buttons to control your camera (that would later become the 2nd analog stick). The N64 is the reason for so many innovations you still find in games up to this day. Moving around in 3D environments, 1st Person controls, targeting and much more.

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