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Console history · 1998–2026

From Game Boy to PS5: six handheld and home-console families across nearly three decades.

A sample of the data

Year	Console	Sales	Annual	Basis
1998	Game Boy	64.42	10.37	Nintendo consolidated sell-in; cumulative reconstructed from LTD
1999	Game Boy	77.41	12.99	Nintendo consolidated sell-in; cumulative reconstructed from LTD
2000	Game Boy	94.86	17.45	Nintendo consolidated sell-in; cumulative reconstructed from LTD
2001	Game Boy	113.72	18.86	Nintendo consolidated sell-in; cumulative reconstructed from LTD
2002	Game Boy	118.42	4.7	Nintendo consolidated sell-in; cumulative reconstructed from LTD
2003	Game Boy	118.69	0.27	Nintendo consolidated sell-in; cumulative reconstructed from LTD
2004	Game Boy	118.69	0.001	Nintendo consolidated sell-in; cumulative reconstructed from LTD
2005	DS	5.27	5.27	Nintendo consolidated sell-in; cumulative reconstructed from LTD

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Unit: Lifetime hardware shipments · millions worldwide
Period: 31 March 1998–2026 · 78 observations; dates vary by console
Source: Nintendo / Sony IR. Game Boy starts at 64.42M in 1998, not zero. Nintendo totals reconstructed from published lifetime and annual/grouped figures; Sony totals sum rounded annual sell-in. Annual retains source rounding adjustments. Different launch dates; visual interpolation between observations. Lines end at their last reported date: Game Boy 2014, PS4 2022, DS/Wii 2023. No missing values replaced by zero or extended to 2026. Selected history, not an exhaustive ranking; excludes PS1/PS2 production shipments, partial PS3/Xbox 360 history and Switch 2. Game Boy includes Color; Switch includes Lite/OLED. See source notes for definitions and image credits.
License: Manufacturer public financial disclosures; Nintendo / Sony credited. Photos: Evan-Amos, public domain (Game Boy, DS, Wii, PS4, Switch); Howardcorn33, CC0 1.0 (PS5). Individual image/source links in source notes.