5 best-selling consoles of all time Gaming Hardware. By Jesse Lennox. Published Aug 26, 2024. Thread Your changes have been saved ...

The best selling game on the system was Sonic the Hedgehog (15 million), followed by Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (6 million). The 43 million unit figure includes all versions of the console, throughout ...

Explore the 27 best selling consoles of all time, from the iconic PlayStation 2 to the innovative Nintendo Switch, in this detailed guide.

The 12th best-selling console of all time, the PS5 passed the Nintendo's 3DS, which ended its run with just under 76 million units sold, in May 2025. See our picks for the best PS5 games below.

The PlayStation 2 is by far and away the greatest selling home console of all time, selling over 50 million units more than any other console. Released in 2000, at the turn of the millennium, the ...

The only other portable console on this list, Nintendo DS (2004) outdid its rivals and secured its spot among best-selling consoles, second only to the legendary PlayStation 2.

The console also uses a somewhat outdated 6.2-inch, 720p display, which is about a similar size to most smartphones, but with far less pixel density. As is typical with Nintendo, though, the specs ...

Each video game console has a few games that stand above the rest in terms of quality, but which are the ones that manage to sell the best? These are the official best selling games on every console.

While the exercise of ranking consoles may sound silly, it does force one to meditate on those questions. To create a ranked list of the best consoles of all time, we had to look back at decades ...

From Game Boy to Nintendo Switch, these are our picks for the best handheld gaming consoles of all time. By Gabe Gurwin on October 22, 2021 at 7:49AM PDT. 36 Comments.