Hard-core sales numbers
This impact can be of several kinds. Cultural, like that of the models of these first generations, or economic, thanks to overwhelming sales figures that clearly speak of the success of a formula, brand or other. So we were encouraged to look for data that shows us which of all the machines that have reached the market has sold the most games, by net units, such that it can be considered the most successful of them all. the times (until today). .
So let’s go, with the – reverse – ranking of those numbers leaving the following as the most successful consoles…although and if you think we’ll jump to a quick conclusion after seeing the numbers: the first decade of the 21st century was total madness
10. Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
The console with which Nintendo conquered the West and revived the withered market after the debacle of 1983 is in tenth place with figures that are not bad. 500.01 million cartridges sold throughout its life, which was not short.
9. Game Boy (GB)
Nintendo’s handheld, which appeared at the end of the 1980s, also enjoyed unprecedented success because it was the first model that could be taken anywhere and with the possibility of changing cartridges at any time. Managed to sell 501.11 million games throughout its history.
8. Nintendo Wii (Wii)
The successor console to the GameCube was a complete success and managed to sneak into every household on the planet, allowing Nintendo to regain ground lost years ago. This triumph helped him sell 921.85 million games throughout its years of activity, at the end of 2012.
7.Nintendo DS (DS)
Another Nintendo console, and there are four of them, which enters the Top 10 with the most games sold. On this occasion, the mythical laptop with two screens was at the gates of a billion reaching the figure of 948.76.
6. Playstation (PS)
Sony returned to video games with this console, after the small disappointment of MSX, and the truth is that it hit the nail on the head. He began a journey which will soon be 30 years old and which in the 90s, it allowed him to sell 962 million games. An atrocity.
5. Nintendo Switch (NS)
We’ll take these numbers for granted, but reading this text, I’m sure the number of games sold by Nintendo Switch continues to grow. To date, the last machine of the Japanese He is close to a billion thanks to these 994.30 he accumulates.
4. PlayStation 3 (PS3)
The third generation of PlayStation, which for many seems to have been a minor moment, also reached dizzying numbers, from nothing more and nothing less than 999.40 million games sold.
3. Xbox 360 (X360)
Without a doubt, the most successful console that Microsoft has launched in its history and which could have changed the future of the market if it had not been for the Xbox One fiasco. managed to sell nothing more and nothing less than 1,008.03 million games.
2. PlayStation 4 (PS4)
The penultimate generation of PlayStation is the console with the second best-selling games in the decade it’s been with us, and it keeps adding up so, who knows, it might just take the top spot. to one of her older sisters. For now, It appears to have remained at 1,419.50 million games sold.
1. PlayStation 2 (PS2)
For the end we leave the number one console of all time. PS2, released in 2000 managed to sell nothing more and nothing less than 1,537.00 million games in DVD-format.
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