Shipments are measured in increments of 10k.
1 = 10k
10 = 100k
100 = 1M
1000 = 10M
Fiscal year format: FY3/1998 = Fiscal year ending last day of 3 (March), 1998
| GLOBAL | NES | GB | SNES | PSX | N64 | PS2 | GBA | GCN | Nintendo | Sony |
| > 8/1985 [1] | 433 | 433 | ||||||||
| FY8/1986 | 434 | 434 | ||||||||
| FY8/1987 | 428 | 428 | ||||||||
| FY8/1988 | 757 | 757 | ||||||||
| FY8/1989 | 1,097 | 109 | 1,206 | |||||||
| FY3/1990 [2] | 652 | 284 | 936 | |||||||
| FY3/1991 | 1,043 | 806 | 144 | 1,993 | ||||||
| FY3/1992 | 799 | 1,067 | 659 | 2,525 | ||||||
| FY3/1993 | 353 | 780 | 1,303 | 2,436 | ||||||
| FY3/1994 | 111 | 747 | 1,106 | 1,964 | ||||||
| FY3/1995 [3] | 40 | 558 | 441 | 88 | 1,039 | 88 | ||||
| FY3/1996 | 8 | 416 | 578 | 342 | 1,002 | 342 | ||||
| FY3/1997 | 8 | 709 | 330 | 920 | 611 | 1,658 | 920 | |||
| FY3/1998 | 3 | 1,102 | 185 | 1,932 | 1,002 | 2,292 | 1,932 | |||
| FY3/1999 | 5 | 1,355 | 153 | 2,160 | 796 | 2,309 | 2,160 | |||
| FY3/2000 | 5 | 1,724 | 13 | 1,850 | 703 | 141 | 2,445 | 1,991 | ||
| FY3/2001 | 5 | 1,886 | 9 | 931 | 285 | 920 | 107 | 2,292 | 1,851 | |
| FY3/2002 | 6 | 470 | 1 | 740 | 50 | 1,807 | 1,709 | 380 | 2,616 | 2,547 |
| FY3/2003 | 6 | 27 | 1 | 678 | 1 | 2,252 | 1,565 | 576 | 2,176 | 2,930 |
| FY3/2004 | 3 | 1 | 331 | 2,010 | 1,759 | 502 | 2,265 | 2,341 |
[1] Nintendo lumps together everything the NES sold from its launch to August 31, 1985. These are Japan sales only.
[2] Nintendo starts ending fiscal years in March rather than August. This fiscal year is technically only seven months long.
[3] Sony launches the PlayStation in Japan. We have shipment figures for December 31st, 1994 (roughly 300k) and May 27th, 1995 (1 million exactly). 880k is my compromise figure, assuming stronger sales in earlier months of the year.
| GLOBAL | PSX | PS2 | GBA | GCN | DS | PSP | PS3 | Wii | 3DS | Nintendo | Sony |
| FY3/2005 | 277 | 1,617 | 1,540 | 392 | 527 | 297 | 2,459 | 2,191 | |||
| FY3/2006 | 1,622 | 833 | 235 | 1,146 | 1,406 | 2,214 | 3,028 | ||||
| FY3/2007 | 1,480 | 434 | 73 | 2,356 | 960 | 350 | 584 | 3,447 | 2,790 | ||
| FY3/2008 | 1,370 | 159 | 16 | 3,031 | 1,380 | 910 | 1,861 | 5,067 | 3,660 | ||
| FY3/2009 | 790 | 42 | 3,118 | 1,410 | 1,010 | 2,595 | 5,755 | 3,210 | |||
| FY3/2010 | 730 | 4 | 2,711 | 990 | 1,300 | 2,053 | 4,768 | 3,020 | |||
| FY3/2011 | 640 | 1,752 | 800 | 1,430 | 1,508 | 361 | 3,621 | 2,870 |
| GLOBAL | PS2 | DS | PSP | PS3 | Wii | 3DS | PSV | WiiU | PS4 | NS | Nintendo | Sony |
| FY3/2012 [4] | 410 | 510 | 680 | 1,390 | 984 | 1,353 | 175 | 2,847 | 2,655 | |||
| FY3/2013 | 235 | 200 | 1,200 | 398 | 1,395 | 330 | 345 | 2,373 | 1,730 | |||
| FY3/2014 | 13 | 50 | 670 | 122 | 1,224 | 355 | 272 | 750 | 1,631 | 1,825 | ||
| FY3/2015 | 2 | 300 | 46 | 873 | 260 | 338 | 1,480 | 1,259 | 2,040 | |||
| FY3/2016 | 1 | 90 | 11 | 679 | 265 | 326 | 1,770 | 1,017 | 2,125 | |||
| FY3/2017 | 40 | 727 | 170 | 76 | 2,000 | 274 | 1,077 | 2,210 | ||||
| FY3/2018 | 640 | 60 | 1,900 | 1,505 | 2,145 | 1,960 | ||||||
| FY3/2019 | 255 | 1,780 | 1,695 | 1,950 | 1,780 | |||||||
| FY3/2020 | 69 | 1,360 | 2,103 | 2,172 | 1,360 |
[4] All shipment numbers for non-PS4 or PS5 Sony consoles after this point are estimates, because that's the point at which Sony stopped giving out any shipment data for them at all. I estimated by using VGChartz data from the end of April for each year.
| GLOBAL | PS4 | NS | PS5 | Nintendo | Sony |
| FY3/2021 | 570 | 2,883 | 780 | 2,883 | 1,350 |
Lifetime:
Nintendo - 799M total
Sony - 569M total
After PlayStation release:
20 Nintendo wins (668M)
7 Sony wins (569M)
After PSP release:
12 Nintendo wins (467M)
5 Sony wins (398M)
After PS4 release:
4 Nintendo wins (141M)
4 Sony wins (147M)
FY3/2022 projections (as of May 2021):
Nintendo: 25.50 million (Switch only)
Sony: N/A
