Does anybody have a chart that shows the increases and decreases of console sales, all the way back to the first generation-now? I would like to study it. Thank YOu

I think you would have to make it yourself, try wiki for some of the older consoles. (and any other missing from here like jaguar which is supposedly in the 64bit gen)

Yeah I will make one myself. I will just take the lifetime sales of each console then make a chart with that.

I have no idea how you would find one. Lifetime sales you should be able to get from VGChartz, Wikipedia etc but sales fluctuations over time would be really difficult. I also doubt data was tracked back in the 80's and 90's.

^ All I wanted was the lifetime sales for all of the consoles of said generation. I just wanted to see how the video game industry has expanded.

I tried the same thing a while ago.

I got great data from the last 3 gens (PS1/N64 - current). Then good data for most ninty consoles (SNES/NES, etc.) and Sega consoles. but the smaller, less successful console data was hard to find.

I've culminated these sales from various sources.

NES: 61,780,000
Nintendo SNES: 49,020,000
Nintendo 64: 32,930,000
Nintendo Gamecube: 21.59 million
Nintendo Wii: 23.21 million

Nintendo Gameboy: 118,420,000
Nintendo Virtual Boy: 770,000
Game Boy Advance/GBA SP: 80 million
Game Boy Advanced Micro: 2.5 million
Nintendo DS: 69.1 million


Sega Master System: 13,000,000
Sega Genesis (Master Drive): 30,750,000
Sega CD: 6 million
Sega 32X: 200,000
Sega Saturn: 9,260,000
Sega Dreamcast: 10,600,000

Sega Game Gear: 11 million
Sega Nomad: 1 million


Sony Playstation: 102.5 million
Sony Playstation 2: 118 million
Sony Playstation 3: 11.41 million

Sony PSP: 32.3 million


Microsoft Xbox: 24.7 million
Microsoft X360: 17.98 milion


Atari Jaguar: 250,000
Atari Lynx: 500,000


NEC Turbografx 16: 10 million
NEC Turbografx CD: ?
NEC TurboDuo: ?
NEC PC-FX: 400,000

NEC Turbo Express: 1.5 million


SNK Neo Geo: ?
SNK Neo Geo CD: ?
SNK Neo Geo Pocket: 2 million


Philips CDi: 570,000


Panasonic 3DO: 2 million


Wonderswan color: ?


Nokia N-Gage: 3 million

Only 1.35 million? I should have kept mine. Didn't know it was so rare.

There has been some new information since I last compiled the older consoles and it seems the 3DO sold ~2 million.  Not sure if that changes your view on its rarity or not.

I also updated a few others. 

(From 2002, post 2002 figures are forecasts)

Have fun.