PlayStation becomes best-selling video game console brand ever

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With 450 million units sold across original PlayStation, PS2, PS3, and PS4.

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so time to buy new PC start 2021 for me then, would seem reasonable as the PS5 would set new standards.

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Originally Posted by QuorTek

so time to buy new PC start 2021 for me then, would seem reasonable as the PS5 would set new standards.

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I am feeling the gravity of consoles strong lately. Right now you can buy 3 consoles in the price of "enthusiast" lvl Graphic card.

Congrats to Sony!

Key is the word "brand". If Nintendo had named all their systems SNES 1/2/3/4 etc they'd be ahead. The Wii outsold the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined IIRC.

I wonder if the DS/3DS had been sold under the Game Boy brand, which one would be ahead. Though I do note that the original Game Boy was released 5 years before the PS (now that I think about it, I am surprised - I feel like the PS came out much later).

Brand does seem key - the original Playstation(s) had little competition from the current gen. brands. It was up against the N64 and the Saturn; Microsoft weren't even in the game back them.

I'm sure if you added up all the aggregated sales of Nintendo consoles (maybe even excluding the handheld ones...) you'd get a comparable number.

EDIT: Maybe not... Just added up sales figured (from Wikipedia) for NES, SNES, N64,GC,Wii, WiiU, and Switch - only 324 million between them!

EDIT 2: Though the handheld sales blows it out of the water - 440m.

Oh great. I've just realised the PS1 was released 25 years ago.

The console makers must have some massive strangle hold on the chip makers to keep the prices low. Not a single rise during the Crypto madness yet it put a massive talespin on the PC market that may never recover.