List of game consoles
The list of game consoles includes stationary game consoles and handheld consoles sorted according to their technical structure or processor architecture . The list does not claim to be complete. A chronological listing can be found in the article on the history of video games .
Without microprocessor
Hardwired
The course of the game and all graphic data are specified by appropriately connected electronic components inside the console. In particular, these cannot be modified. To better illustrate this state of affairs such video game systems are also known as hard-wired (English hard-wired ) or specialized (English dedicated called).
Discrete components and / or low-level integrated circuits
- Videomaster Home TV Game (1974)
- Odyssey 100 (1975)
- Odyssey 200 (1975)
- Television Tennis (1975)
- Videomaster Rally Home TV Game (1975)
- VideoSport MK2
- Orelec PP-2000 (1976)
Highly integrated circuit (e.g. AY-3-8500 )
- Pong model C-100 (1975)
- Interton Video 3000 (1976)
- Interton Video 2400
- Philips Tele-Game ES 2203 (1977)
- Philips Tele-Game ES 2204 (1977)
- Philips Tele-Game ES 2207 (1977)
- Philips Tele-Game ES 2218 (1978)
- Screen game 01 (BSS01) (1980)
Cartridge-based
The console is designed so that the games that can be executed with it are interchangeable. The plug-in cards or plug-in modules required for this can contain wire bridges, discrete electronic components but also highly integrated circuits such as the 8600 Programmable Game Set from General Instrument.
Discrete components and / or low-level integrated circuits
- Odyssey (1972)
- Philips Tele-Game ES 2201 (1975)
- Interton Video 2000 (1975)
Highly integrated circuit
- Palladium Tele-Cassette-Game
- Poppy 9015
- Poppy TVG 10
- Sanwa 9015
- SHG Black Point
- Unimex Mark IX
4-bit architecture
Hardwired
The devices are based on a single-chip microcomputer , which also contains the non-modifiable read-only memory with the program data of the games.
- Auto Race (Handheld, 1976)
- Merlin (handheld, 1978)
- Nintendo Game & Watch (Handheld, 1980)
Cartridge-based
- Microvision (handheld, 1979)
8-bit architecture
- Fairchild Channel F (1976)
- Bally Astrocade (1977)
- RCA Studio II (1977)
- Atari 2600 (1977)
- Atari Video Pinball (1977)
- APF M1000 (1978)
- Philips G7000 (1978)
- Interton VC 4000 (1978)
- Epoch Cassette Vision (1981)
- Adventure Vision (1982)
- Vectrex (1982)
- Atari 5200 (1982)
- ColecoVision (1982)
- Coleco Gemini (1982)
- Emerson Arcadia 2001 (1982)
- Casio PV-1000 (1983)
- Sega Game-1000 (1983)
- Famicom (1983)
- Super Cassette Vision (1984)
- Atari 7800 (1984)
- Nintendo Entertainment System (1985)
- Sega Master System (1986)
- Tele-Fever video game (1986)
- Action Max (1987)
- Atari XE Game System (1987)
- Commodore 64 GS (1987)
- Atari Lynx (1989)
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Game Boy (Handheld, 1989)
- Game Boy Pocket (1996)
- Game Boy Light (1997)
- Game Boy Color (Handheld, 1998)
16-bit architecture
- Intellivision (1979)
- PC Engine (1987)
- Sega Mega Drive (1988)
- Sega Game Gear (Handheld, 1990)
- Amstrad GX4000 (1990)
- Neo Geo (1990)
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1990)
- CDTV (1991)
- CD-i (1991)
- Watara Supervision (handheld, 1992)
32- and 64-bit architecture
- 3DO (1993)
- CD32 (1993)
- Atari Jaguar (1993)
- PC-FX (1994)
- Sega Saturn (1994)
- Playdia (1994)
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PlayStation (1994)
- PSone (2000)
- Apple Pippin (1995)
- Virtual Boy (1995)
- Nintendo 64 (1996)
- Game.com (Handheld, 1997)
- Neo Geo Pocket (Handheld, 1998)
- Dreamcast (1998)
- Neo Geo Pocket Color (Handheld, 1999)
- WonderSwan (handheld, 1999)
- WonderSwan Color (Handheld, 2000)
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PlayStation 2 (2000)
- PSX (2003)
- PlayStation 2 Slim (2004)
- SwanCrystal (2002)
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Game Boy Advance (Handheld, 2001)
- Game Boy Advance SP (2003)
- Game Boy Micro (2003)
- Nintendo GameCube (2001)
- Panasonic Q (2001)
- Game Boy Player (2003)
- GP 32 (handheld, 2001)
- Xbox (2001)
- Pokémon Mini (Handheld, 2001)
- Nokia N-Gage (Handheld, 2003)
- Tapwave Zodiac (Handheld, 2003)
- iQue Player (2003)
- Atari Flashback (2004)
- Atari Flashback 2 (2005)
- V. Smile (2004)
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Nintendo DS (handheld, 2004)
- Nintendo DS Lite (2006)
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Nintendo DSi (handheld, 2009)
- Nintendo DSi XL (2010)
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PlayStation Portable (Handheld, 2004)
- PSP-2000 (2007)
- PSP-3000 (2008)
- PSP Go (2009)
- PSP Street (2011)
- Gizmondo (handheld, 2005)
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Xbox 360 (2005)
- Xbox 360 E (2013)
- Xbox 360 S (2010)
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PlayStation 3 (2006)
- PlayStation 3 Slim (2009)
- PlayStation 3 Super Slim (2012)
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Wii (2006)
- Wii Mini (2013)
- V. Smile Pro (2006)
- Dingoo A320 (handheld, 2009)
- Zeebo (2009)
- Pandora (2009)
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Nintendo 3DS (Handheld, 2011)
- Nintendo 3DS XL (2012)
- Nintendo 2DS (2013)
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New Nintendo 3DS (Handheld, 2014)
- New Nintendo 3DS XL (2015)
- New Nintendo 2DS XL (2017)
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PlayStation Vita (Handheld, 2011)
- PlayStation Vita Slim (2014)
- Wii U (November 2012)
- Ouya (March 2013)
- Nvidia Shield (Handheld, 2013)
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PlayStation 4 (2013)
- PlayStation 4 Slim (2016)
- PlayStation 4 Pro (2016)
- PlayStation TV (2013)
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Xbox One (2013)
- Xbox One S (2016)
- Xbox One X (2017)
- Xbox One S All-Digital Edition (2019)
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Nintendo Switch (2017)
- Nintendo Switch Lite (Handheld, 2019)
- Oculus Go (2018)
- Oculus Quest (2019)
- PlayStation 5 (2020)
- Xbox Series X (2020)
Best-selling game consoles
The following table lists game consoles that have sold at least one million copies.
space | Surname | Manufacturer | Type | Initial release | was standing | units sold (million) |
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1 | PlayStation 2 | Sony Interactive Entertainment | stationary game console | 2000 | 2020 | 157.68 |
2 | Nintendo DS | Nintendo | Handheld console | 2004 | 2020 | 154.02 |
3 | Game Boy (with Game Boy Color ) | Nintendo | Handheld console | 1989 | 2020 | 118.69 |
4th | PlayStation 4 | Sony Interactive Entertainment | stationary game console | 2013 | 2020 | 112.3 |
5 | PlayStation | Sony Interactive Entertainment | stationary game console | 1994 | 2020 | 102.49 |
6th | Wii | Nintendo | stationary game console | 2006 | 2020 | 101.63 |
7th | PlayStation 3 | Sony Interactive Entertainment | stationary game console | 2006 | 2020 | 87.4 |
8th | Xbox 360 | Microsoft | stationary game console | 2005 | 2020 | 86 |
9 | Game Boy Advance | Nintendo | Handheld console | 2001 | 2020 | 81.51 |
10 | PlayStation Portable | Sony Interactive Entertainment | Handheld console | 2004 | 2020 | 81.09 |
11 | Nintendo 3DS | Nintendo | Handheld console | 2011 | 2020 | 75.87 |
12 | Nintendo Entertainment System | Nintendo | stationary game console | 1983 | 2020 | 61.91 |
13 | Nintendo Switch | Nintendo | hybrid game console | 2017 | 2020 | 61.44 |
14th | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | Nintendo | stationary game console | 1990 | 2020 | 49.1 |
15th | Xbox One | Microsoft | stationary game console | 2013 | 2020 | 43.15 |
16 | Atari Home Pong series | Atari | stationary game console | 1975 | 35 | |
17th | Nintendo 64 | Nintendo | stationary game console | 1996 | 32.93 | |
18th | Sega Mega Drive | Sega | stationary game console | 1988 | 30.75 | |
19th | Atari 2600 | Atari | stationary game console | 1977 | > 30 | |
20th | Xbox | Microsoft | stationary game console | 2001 | 25th | |
21st | GameCube | Nintendo | stationary game console | 2001 | 21.74 | |
22nd | PlayStation Vita | Sony Interactive Entertainment | Handheld console | 2011 | 16.21 | |
23 | Wii U | Nintendo | stationary game console | 2012 | 13.56 | |
24 | Sega Saturn | Sega | stationary game console | 1994 | 11.56 | |
25th | Dreamcast | Sega | stationary game console | 1998 | 10.60 | |
26th | Atari 7800 | Atari | stationary game console | 1984 | 8th | |
27 | Color TV game | Nintendo | stationary game console | 1977 | 3 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tim Lapetino, Winnie Forster and Stephan Freundorfer: Atari: Art and Design of Video Games. GamePlan, 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-058030-7 , p. 50.
- ↑ Alexander Smith: They Create Worlds Volume I: 1971 - 1982. CRC Press, New York, 1st edition, 2020, ISBN 9781138389922 , p. 218.
- ↑ David Winter: Videomaster Rally Home TV Game. Pong-Story.com, accessed August 3, 2020.
- ^ David Winter: Early European systems: ORELEC PP-2000. Pong-Story.com, accessed August 3, 2020.
- ↑ Attractive new electronics. The Toy, February 1978, p. 540 f.
- ↑ General Instrument: Gimini TV Game Circuits 1978, p. 49.
- ↑ a b c d e f De PC-50 Cart Family. Cyberteam inc., Accessed August 3, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Game consoles - best-selling console worldwide through December 2018. Accessed May 10, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k IR Information: Sales Data - Dedicated Video Game Sales Units. Accessed January 30, 2020 (English).
- ↑ https://www.gematsu.com/2020/08/ps4-worldwide-shipments-top-112-3-million
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i 10 Oldest Video Game Consoles in The World. In: Oldest.org. December 4, 2017. Retrieved May 11, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ A Brief History of Game Console Warfare | BusinessWeek. May 9, 2007, accessed May 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Xbox Wire Staff: Best Wishes to Marc Whitten as He Departs Xbox. In: Xbox Wire. March 18, 2014, Retrieved November 8, 2019 (American English).
- ^ Platform Totals. December 31, 1969, accessed November 8, 2019 .
- ↑ SEGA-Saturn.net - The history of SEGA Saturn. Retrieved November 8, 2019 .