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jarrod on 15 February 2011
pizzahut451 said:
jarrod said:
pizzahut451 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
Mr.Ashtear said:

a record that is not going to be hold for a long time, since DS may probably break it this december, but still congrats to one of the best consoles ever made. 

Not a surprise as even GB beat PS1 back in the day. So it was likely DS would beat PS2 to continue that trend

*We ignore the existence of GBA in this trend!* tehehe

OT:

CONGRATS TO SONY and the 2nd best console ever made!

Actually GameBoy and GameBoy Colour TOGETHER surpassed PS1. We dont know how muhc each handheld sold individually

We do, it was about 70m GB and 50m GBC.  The handhelds are lumped together though since GBC is kjust considered a model refresh of GB generally.   Same as with DS and DSi.


So none of them actually outsold PS1. My point still stands

I'm not disputing your point, though DS itself (without DSi) is past 103m iirc.

Then again, if we did everything by singular models of hardware, then Wii's going to end up being the best selling system pretty easily.  It just depends on where you draw the line in terms of revisions and platforms.



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bluthunder on 15 February 2011

So this got me thinking, which formats have sold the most hardware units capable of playing that format. I only included hardware capable of directly  playing the original physical formats, so no digital distribution such as PS1 Classics on PSP or Virtual Console on Wii. Also no converters such as the ones for Master System on Mega Drive and Game Gear, Super Game Boy on SNES, or Game Boy Player on GameCube. I'd like to include those, but there aren't any sales numbers, I doubt they sold huge numbers anyway.

PS1 - 300.39M
GBY - 197.78M
GBA - 193.13M
PS2 - ~156M
NDS - 144.59M
GBC - ~119M
NGC - 106.38M

GBA is still selling (DS Lite), but probably not enough to pass GBY, maybe if sales for Game Boy Player were known it may pass pass 200M. GBY is probably past 200M if Super Game Boy and Game Boy Player sales were known.

NDS looks assured to pass both GBA and GBY with 3DS retaining compatibility with it along with DSi.

Whilst "NGP" has compatibility with digital PSP releases, it won't be compatible with the original physical release, so it won't ever make the 100M list.

PS2 has been hurt by it's removal from PS3, it will be interesting to see if PS4 will be compatible with PS2 or even PS1.

Wii (NGC/Wii) - 84.64
NGC (NGC) - 21.74

DS (GBA/DS) - 144.59 - 32.97 = 111.62 (GBA)
DSi (DS/DSi) - 32.97

GBA (GB/GBC/GBA) - 81.51 - 2.42 = 79.09 (GBY/GBC)
GB Micro (GBA) - 2.42

GBY - 118.69
GBC (GBY/GBC) -  ~50

PS3 (PS1/PS3) - 47.9

PS3 BC (PS1/PS2/PS3) - ~6
PS2 (PS1/PS2) - 150

PS1 - 102.49



pizzahut451 on 17 February 2011
jarrod said:
pizzahut451 said:
jarrod said:
pizzahut451 said:
darthdevidem01 said:
Mr.Ashtear said:

a record that is not going to be hold for a long time, since DS may probably break it this december, but still congrats to one of the best consoles ever made. 

Not a surprise as even GB beat PS1 back in the day. So it was likely DS would beat PS2 to continue that trend

*We ignore the existence of GBA in this trend!* tehehe

OT:

CONGRATS TO SONY and the 2nd best console ever made!

Actually GameBoy and GameBoy Colour TOGETHER surpassed PS1. We dont know how muhc each handheld sold individually

We do, it was about 70m GB and 50m GBC.  The handhelds are lumped together though since GBC is kjust considered a model refresh of GB generally.   Same as with DS and DSi.


So none of them actually outsold PS1. My point still stands

I'm not disputing your point, though DS itself (without DSi) is past 103m iirc.

Then again, if we did everything by singular models of hardware, then Wii's going to end up being the best selling system pretty easily.  It just depends on where you draw the line in terms of revisions and platforms.


Well, i wasnt arguing about DS