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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.