The following table contains video game consoles that have sold at least units worldwide either through to consumers or inside retail channels. Each console includes sales from every iteration unless otherwise noted. The years correspond to when the first version of each console was released (excluding test markets).
Best-selling consoles
Notes
References
WonderSwan Famitsu sources
Release year sources
- Atari consoles
- : "The test release of the Atari 7800 went by practically unnoticed [...] And so the Atari 7800 collected dust for two years, until the international success of the Nintendo Entertainment System quickly changed the minds of Atari's new management. [...] Atari shipped the now slightly outdated 7800 across the world. [...] Only a few thousand 7800 consoles were shipped in the US during the first marketing attempt."
- : Atari VCS 2600, Atari 5200, Atari Lynx.
- Microsoft consoles
- Nintendo consoles
- : "Nintendo teamed with Mitsubishi to build the video-game system and, in 1977, Nintendo entered the home market in Japan with the dramatic unveiling of Color TV Game 6 [...]"
- Sega consoles
- Sony consoles
- Others
- : Bandai Wonderswan and ColecoVision.
- : Nokia N-Gage.
- : "To push its first video-game system, NEC formed a home-entertainment group and released PC Engine in Japan in October 1987."
- : "Philips released CD-I years behind schedule, in October 1991, months after CDTV, because of technical problems."
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