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So, I did a little looking around online, and I found all the estimated total hardware shipments for all the major consoles from the 1st to 7th generation. I know there's a few issues, but I got everything pretty close.

- I used wikipedia for the 1st-6th gen and VGchartz for the 7th, so it shows DS a little above PS2 which i know is a bit off. (I know PS2 is supposed to be 155m, but changing it will mess up the rest of the numbers and I'm way too lazy to fix them all.)
- I couldn't find sales info for the Neo Geo or Atari Lynx. (They're both estimated at 2,000,000, but there's no official numbers.)
- I split the Game Boy into 2 parts. 70m for GB and 48.69m for GBC. (just an estimate because Nintendo lumps them together for some reason)
- I didn't include duplicate consoles like the Sega Nomad.
- I didn't include attachment consoles like the Sega CD.

I included some of the failed consoles, but not all so expect a margin of error of a couple percent.

Enjoy the statistics!

1st Gen Nintendo Coleco Magnavox Atari       Total
  Color TV Game Telstar Odyssey Pong       4,480,000
  3,000,000 1,000,000 330,000 150,000        
Market Share 66.96% 22.32% 7.37% 3.35%        
                 
2nd Gen Nintendo Atari Mattel Coleco Magnavox      
  Game & Watch 2600 Intellivision ColecoVision Odyssey 2     81,400,000
  43,400,000 30,000,000 3,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000      
    5200            
    1,000,000            
Market Share 53.32% 38.08% 3.69% 2.46% 2.46%      
                 
3rd Gen Nintendo Sega Atari          
  NES Master System 7800         77,480,000
  61,910,000 11,800,000 3,770,000          
Marekt Share 79.90% 15.23% 4.87%          
                 
4th Gen Nintendo Sega NEC Philips       180,670,000
  SNES Genesis Turbo-Grax 16 CD-i        
  49,100,000 40,000,000 10,000,000 570,000        
  Game Boy Game Gear            
  70,000,000 11,000,000            
Market Share 65.92% 28.23% 5.53% 0.32%        
                 
5th Gen Nintendo Sony Sega 3DO Bandai SNK Atari  
  N64 Playstation Saturn 3DO WonderSwan Neo Geo Pocket Jaguar 202,030,000
  32,930,000 102,490,000 9,400,000 2,000,000 3,500,000 2,000,000 250,000  
  GB Color
           
  48,690,000              
  Virtual Boy              
  770,000              
Market Share 40.78% 50.73% 4.65% 0.99% 1.73% 0.99% 0.12%  
                 
6th Gen Nintendo Sony Microsoft Sega Nokia      
  GameCube Playstation 2 Xbox Dreamcast N-Gage     294,710,000
  22,000,000 153,600,000 24,000,000 10,600,000 3,000,000      
  GBA              
  81,510,000              
Market Share 35.12% 52.12% 8.14% 3.60% 1.02%      
                 
7th Gen Nintendo Sony Microsoft          
  Wii Playstation 3 Xbox 360         498,000,000
  100,700,000 82,100,000 80,800,000          
  DS PSP            
  153,800,000 80,600,000            
Market Share 51.10% 32.67% 16.22%          
                 
                 
Totals Nintendo Sony Sega Microsft Atari      
  667,810,000 418,790,000 82,800,000 104,800,000 35,170,000   1,338,770,000  
Market Share 49.88% 31.28% 6.18% 7.83% 2.63%      
                 
  NEC Bandai Magnavox Mattel Nokia      
  10,000,000 3,500,000 2,330,000 3,000,000 3,000,000      
  0.75% 0.26% 0.17% 0.22% 0.22%      
                 
  SNK 3DO Coleco Philips        
  2,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 570,000        
  0.15% 0.15% 0.22% 0.04%        



8th gen predictions. (made early 2014)
PS4: 60-65m
WiiU: 30-35m
X1: 30-35m
3DS: 80-85m
PSV: 15-20m