Quarter 2 Sales Update (VGC Exclusive Special)

[Michael-5]

Best Selling Video Game Consoles

Note: Release Dates are for North America, the bolded values beside some consoles represent the number of units sold since the last update.

1 – 154.20 million - Sony Playstation 2 (October 26th, 2000) (Plus 0.52 million)
2 – 152.30 million - Nintendo DS (November 21st, 2004) (Plus 1.37 million)
3 – 118.69 million - Nintendo Gameboy and Gameboy Color (GB-August 1989, GBC-November 1998)
4 – 104.24 million - Sony Playstation (September 9th, 1995)(Plus 1.76 million - VGC Adjustment)
5 – 96.32 million - Nintendo Wii (November 19th, 2006) (Plus 2.34 million)
6 – 81.51 million - Nintendo Gameboy Advance (June 11th, 2001) (Plus 0.02 million - VGC Adjustment)
7 – 74.80 million - Sony Playstation Portable (March 24th, 2005) (Plus 1.79 million)
8 – 67.37 million - Microsoft X-Box 360 (November 22nd, 2005) (Plus 3.47 million)
9 – 65.40 million - Sony Playstation 3 (November 11th 2006) (Plus 4.47 million)
10 – 61.91 million - Nintendo Entertainment System (US-October 18th, 1985, Can-February 1986)
11 – 49.10 million - Super Nintendo Entertainment System (August 13th 1991)
12 – 32.93 million - Nintendo 64 (September 29th, 1996) (Plus 0.01 million - VGC Adjustment)
13 – 30.00 million - Atari 2600 (October, 1977)
14 – 28.54 million - Sega Mega Drive/Genesis (August 14th, 1989)
15 – 24.65 million - Microsoft X-Box (November 15th, 2001)
16 – 21.74 million - Nintendo Gamecube (November 18th, 2001) (Minus 0.01 million - VGC Adjustment)
17 - 18.51 million - Nintendo 3DS (March 27th, 2011) (Plus 4.75 million)
18 – 13.00 million - Sega Master System (October 1986)
19 – 10.62 million - Sega GameGear (1991)
20 – 10.00 million - Nippon Electric Company TurboGrafx-16 (August 29th, 1989)
21 – 8.82 million - Sega Saturn (May 11th 1995)
22 – 8.20 million - Sega Dreamcast (September 9th, 1999)
23 – 6.00 million - Coleco ColecoVision (August 1982)
24 – 6.00 million - Sega CD (October 15th 1992)
25 – 3.00 million - Mattel Intellivision (1980)
25 – 3.00 million - Nokia N-Gage (October 7th, 2003)
27 - 2.52 million - Playstation Vita (February 15th, 2012) (Plus 1.93 million)
28 – 2.00 million - Panasonic 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (September 1993)
28 – 2.00 million - SNK Neo-Geo Pocket, and Neo-Geo Pocket Colour (1998)
30 – 1.50 million - Nippon Electric Company TurboExpress (1990)
31 – 1.00 million - Sega Nomad (October 1995)
32 - 0.77 million - Nintendo Virtual Boy (August 14th 1995)
33 - 0.57 million - Phillips CDi (1991)
34 - 0.50 million - Atari Lynx (September 1989)
35 - 0.30 million - Tiger Electronics Game.com (September 1997)
36 - 0.25 million - Atari Jaguar (November 18th 1993)
37 - 0.20 million - Sega 32X (November 1994)
38 - 0.042 million - Apple Pippin (1995)
39 - 0.025 million - Tiger Telematics Gizmondo (March 19th 1995)
40 - 0.015 million - Nintendo 64 Disk Drive (December 1st 1999- Japan Only)

 

Current Generation Regional Console Sales

 

USA

1 – 50.97 million - Nintendo DS (Plus 0.65 million)
<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->2 – 49.08 million – Sony PS2 (Plus 0.31 million)- 6th Gen
3 – 39.41 million - Nintendo Wii (Plus 0.80 million)
4 – 34.62 million - Xbox 360 (Plus 1.70 million)
5 – 21.50 million - Sony PS3 (Plus 1.33 million)
6 – 19.54 million - Sony PSP (Plus 0.16 million)
7 – 5.21 million – Nintendo 3DS (Plus 1.1 million) - 8th Gen
8 – 0.65 million – Sony PSV – NEW - 8th Gen

 

Europe

1 – 53.43 million – Sony PS2 (Plus 0.15 million) - 6th Gen
2 – 51.42 million - Nintendo DS (Plus 0.48 million)
3 – 31.69 million - Nintendo Wii (Plus 0.94 million)
4 – 25.32 million - Sony PS3 (Plus 1.84 million)
5 – 21.44 million - Sony PSP (Plus 0.75 million)
6 – 21.16 million - Xbox 360 (Plus 1.26 million)
7 – 4.71 million – Nintendo 3DS (Plus 1.11 million) - 8th Gen
8 – 0.73 million – Sony PSV - NEW - 8th Gen

 

Japan

1 – 32.96 million - Nintendo DS (Plus 0.05 million)
2 – 23.17 million – Sony PS2 (Plus 0.03 million) - 6th Gen
3 – 19.04 million - Sony PSP (Plus 0.44 million)
4 – 12.46 million - Nintendo Wii (Plus 0.25 million)
5 – 8.23 million - Sony PS3 (Plus 0.57 million)
6 – 6.44 million – Nintendo 3DS (Plus 2.13 million) - 8th Gen
7 - 1.59 million - Xbox 360 (Plus 0.03 million)
8 – 0.79 million – Sony PSV (Plus 0.35 million) - 8th Gen

 

PS2 figures on the above graph are VGC values as of December 31^st, 2011, adjusted for the changed regions (Before they stopped giving us PS2 data). PS2 sales for North America are 55.72 million according to VGC, and I scaled off 10% for USA numbers (Canada's population is about 10% of USA's, not many sales in Mexico). PS2 figures for EMEAA are 63.86 million according to VGC. Japans numbers are adjusted by 26,000 units since PS2 is still selling about 1,000 units a week there according to Media Create.

Wikipedia confirms PS2 sales in Japan and NA, but puts PS2 sales in the EMEAA at about 8 million higher. So clearly there is a tracking issue with VGC sales data in EMEAA (This is probably why they stopped tracking it). Since VGC has made a drastic change to giving Europe data instead of EMEAA data, I will use the 48 million sales data and add 10% (Wiki has data up to 2009, VGC has it up to 2012, since North America sales are 10% higher overall according to VGC in North America, I apply the same adjustment to Europe). The vast majority of PS2 sales currently are in developing regions of the world, and places which get consoles late.

Now some of my own crude PS2 sales estimates. Last Year PS2 sold 684,300 units in North America (According to VGC, I kept track of the sales). According to Sony, Annual PS2 sales fell 36% from 2010-2011, but only about 12% from 2009-2010, and half that from 2008-2009 (There was a big drop prior to 2008). Using this trend, I would estimate PS2 sales be 50% less then last year. So If PS2 sold 684,3k last year in North America, adjusting to USA figures this gives us 615.9k units, and losing 50% gives us 307.95k sales in USA. Using the same logic, and knowing PS2 sold 299.7k in Europe(Since Europe sales are 65% of PS2 hardware sales according to Wikipedia, I estimate Europe PS2 sales are 0.65 x 461.0k) this puts PS2 sales in Europe at 149.85k

I will continue to make estimates on PS2 sales for the rest of 2012 based off scaled sales data for PS2 from 2011, but next year I will only update PS2 sales with concrete Media Create sales data (So only for Japan).