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

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

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 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.

Specifically, Nintendo announced earlier today that, in the first four days of availability, it had sold 3.5 million units of the new console, which builds on the hybrid “portable, but you can also ...

The console also uses a somewhat outdated 6.2-inch, 720p display, which is about a similar size to most smartphones, but with far less pixel density.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

These are the best consoles of all time, according to us, in no particular order.

This ultimately means the Nintendo Switch is the third best-selling console of all time. The switch is behind the Nintendo DS in second place at 154.02 million units sold, ...

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 ...

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.

Nintendo Switch hardware and software sales now seem to be firmly on the decline as the handheld hybrid console passes 143 million units sold. There are signs that hardware sales are firmly on a ...