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Best-selling Video Game Consoles Ever Quiz

How well do you know the best-selling video game consoles ever? Floored turns the ranking into a building: floor 1 is the top of the list. We name a floor, you guess what's on it, and the lift rides to whatever you picked so you know to go higher or lower.

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  1. PlayStation 2 160 million
    Sony ended production in early 2013, nearly 13 years after the console launched.
  2. Nintendo Switch 156.59 million
    Its Joy-Con controllers slide off so two players can each use one half.
  3. Nintendo DS 154.02 million
    DS stood for 'Dual Screen'; the lower of its two displays was a touchscreen.
  4. Game Boy 118.69 million
    A Game Boy scorched in a Gulf War bombing still worked and was displayed in Nintendo's New York store.
  5. PlayStation 4 117.2 million
    It launched in 2013 at $399, $100 cheaper than the Xbox One.
  6. PlayStation 102.49 million
    It began as a CD add-on for Nintendo's SNES before that partnership collapsed.
  7. Wii 101.63 million
    Its codename during development was 'Revolution'.
  8. PlayStation 5 95.3 million
    Its DualSense controller has adaptive triggers that can stiffen to simulate resistance.
  9. PlayStation 3 87.4 million
    The US Air Force linked 1,760 of them into a supercomputer called the Condor Cluster.
  10. Xbox 360 84 million
    The 'Red Ring of Death' hardware failure cost Microsoft over $1 billion in repairs.
  11. Game Boy Advance 81.51 million
    The 2003 SP model added a lit screen and a fold-shut clamshell design.
  12. PlayStation Portable 80 million
    It played movies on UMD, a proprietary mini optical disc in a plastic shell.
  13. Nintendo 3DS 75.94 million
    Its top screen showed 3D images without glasses, using a parallax-barrier display.
  14. NES 61.91 million
    It was sold in the US as an 'Entertainment System' to dodge the stigma of the 1983 video game crash.
  15. Xbox One 58 million
    Microsoft scrapped plans for a mandatory online check-in after a fan backlash in 2013.
  16. SNES 49.1 million
    The North American model was boxy purple and grey, unlike the rounded Super Famicom.
  17. Xbox Series X/S 35 million
    The Series X's fridge-like shape became a meme, so Microsoft made a real Xbox mini fridge.
  18. Nintendo 64 32.93 million
    Nintendo stuck with cartridges for it while rivals switched to CDs.
  19. Sega Genesis 30.75 million
    Outside North America it was called the Mega Drive; a US trademark clash forced the Genesis name.
  20. Atari 2600 30 million
    Unsold cartridges of its flop E.T. game were buried in a New Mexico landfill.
  21. Xbox 24 million
    Its prototype was nicknamed the 'DirectX Box', later shortened to Xbox.
  22. Nintendo Switch 2 23.68 million
    Its Joy-Con 2 controllers attach magnetically and can be used like a computer mouse.
  23. GameCube 21.74 million
    It used small 8 cm optical discs instead of full-size DVDs.
  24. Meta Quest 2 20 million
    It launched in 2020 as the Oculus Quest 2 and was renamed after Facebook became Meta.
  25. PlayStation Vita 16 million
    It had a rear touchpad, letting players control games by touching the back of the device.

Source: Wikipedia: List of best-selling game consoles · as of 2026-10

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