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Nintendo 3ds squeaking just inside of
the top 10 of the console heavy hitters
is the Nintendo 3ds although it had
quite a battle getting there officially
unveiled at e3 2010 and released
worldwide beginning in February of 2011
the 3ds had a very rocky start launching
to disappointing sales which led to a
significant price reduction from 249 to
169 less than six months later
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luckily for Nintendo this move proved to
be an enormous success and the consoles
unique features like stereoscopic no
glasses 3d the StreetPass function and
the Virtual Console helped to move even
more copies as of December 2016 the
encompassing 3ds family has moved over
65 point three million units be sure to
carry your Nintendo 3ds whenever you go
outside
number nine Game Boy Advance
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fault Nintendo with whatever you want
but there's no denying that they can
make some stellar handheld consoles
released in Japan in March of 2001 and
North America the following June the
advance had major market domination over
its competitors which included the
n-gage Neo Geo pocket color and tap
waves zodiac yeah
remember those nope no one else does
either and there's a good reason for
that the advance saw great success with
titles like pokemon ruby and sapphire
Mario Kart Super circuit and Super Mario
advance among many many others over its
staggering nine year lifespan which
officially only ended in 2010 the Game
Boy Advance sold eighty one and a half
million units number eight PlayStation
Portable PSP was the first handheld
video game system to offer console
quality experiences along with a large
high-resolution screen another handheld
console but it's from a different
company this time so pay attention while
it may seem borderline primitive today
the PSP was a major and revolutionary
entertainment device at the time leading
to its immense success with 82 million
units sold worldwide
launched in Japan only ten days after
its competitor the Nintendo TS the PSP
shocked the world with its innovations
including its high-end graphics card
massive 4.3 inch viewing screen and a TV
tuner helped by successful titles like
grand theft auto liberty City Stories
daxter and Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7
the PSP was the first console to finally
rival and match Nintendo in the handheld
gaming market looks like it's gonna be
fast and furious oh Sultan of fuzz
that's cruise numbers have a PlayStation
3 look for 299 bucks you don't just get
a sweet gaming machine it's like you get
the best blu-ray player around built-in
for free with an underdog tale that
could rival the likes of Rocky the
PlayStation 3 storied and troubled
history is a thing of beauty announced
at e3 2005 and released in Japan and
North America in November 2006 the
PlayStation 3 was basically laughed out
of existence due to its extremely high
price tag of five hundred and ninety
nine US dollars shockingly no one was
willing to pay $600 for a console even
with this fancy new thing called a
blu-ray player and the ps3 significantly
lagged behind its competitor however
after the release of the slim model the
ps3 was given a much-needed adrenalin
shot that allowed it to recover and move
roughly eighty 3.8 million units still
not as much as its competitor though VP
and mod he represents victory oh those
eyes aren't handsome enough number six
Xbox 360 rogue soldier leads an
unstoppable force across the galaxy and
here's that main competitor which
squashed the ps3 like a bug under its
shoe for the first few years of a
release despite some major reliability
problems this generation of gaming is
arguably considered to be one of the
biggest and most important in terms of
graphical and gameplay innovations and
the 360 certainly did its fair share for
that distinction with its game-changing
titles like Gears of War halo 3 Mass
Effect and Bioshock 2 its name the 360
sold 84 million copies throughout its
lifetime making it virtually tied with
the ps3 before it was mercifully and
honorably put down in April of 2016
what is it more brutes worse number five
Nintendo Wii anyone not living under a
rock for the 2006 Christmas season
remembers what a fiasco it was trying to
find one of these bad boys demand for
the Wii was extremely high to the family
oriented demographic and it's fancy new
motion control technology and the
console sold out everywhere leading to
many a child's disappointing Christmas
morning I've been saving up for this
console for like a year and a half now
and it looks like it's a lot of fun I've
been playing it all day the Wii was
still selling well over three years
later when it broke the single month
sales record in December of 2009 selling
nearly 4 million units in that month
alone due to a price cut and notable
releases like New Super Mario Brothers
week in the end the console managed to
sell a hundred and 1.63 million units
throughout its lifetime
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your app number for PlayStation Sony set
out to build a game console that was
more than just a toy but an interactive
device for all ages Sony's debut into
the video game market proved to be a
monumental success as the original
PlayStation has sold a hundred and two
and a half million units over a healthy
lifetime and put somebody on the gaming
path that it's currently dominating
throughout the late 90s games like Final
Fantasy 7 and Metal Gear Solid were
enormous ly influential for the future
of the medium and PlayStation games were
still being introduced until March of
2006 less than one year before the
release of its grandson the ps3 at a
time when Nintendo and Sega were
dominating the home market in swept Sony
relegating Nintendo to an unforeseen
second place and all but eliminating
Sega from contention number three game
boy / gameboy color in producing Gameboy
it's audible it's a stereo and this
games are interchangeable
while most certainly viewed as a
dinosaur today the Gameboy was an
unprecedented success when it was
released in 1989 while handheld gaming
was around before the Gameboy this
console perfected the idea and found the
perfect demographic to guarantee immense
success
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for the first time female gamers were
getting in on the action as study showed
that 46% of Gameboy players were female
compared to 29% of the NES and 14% of
SNES players this along with the
consoles bundling of the always popular
Tetris and the phenomenon and that was
pokémon red and blue LED the Gameboy and
experience to sell a hundred and
eighteen point 69 million units
throughout their lifetimes only from
Nintendo
now go playing with number two Nintendo
DS the console that finally killed the
ever persistent Gameboy the Nintendo DS
is the highest selling handheld console
of all time as all of its models have
combined to sell an astounding 154
million units the DES was not only
popular but it's arguably the most
influential handheld device of all time
as it proudly introduced many firsts for
handheld gaming including dual LCD
screens working together wireless
connectivity and most importantly a
touchscreen wow these are all
commonplace now they were groundbreaking
in 2004 when you combine these things
with its great lineup of games it's easy
to see why that intend ODS is the second
highest selling console of all time
before we get to the best-selling
console of all time here are a few
honorable mentions throw limited by the
Super NES 2 percent complete Mario games
standard
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and you can play them only on the
Nintendo Entertainment System now you
are playing with power number one
PlayStation 2 working with Toshiba
PlayStation 2 is powered by all new
technology including the breakthrough in
motion engine CPU what is unsurprisingly
the highest selling console of all time
the ps2 was a one-of-a-kind device that
seemingly everyone owned the console had
sold roughly a hundred and fifty five
million units throughout its lifetime
before finally being discontinued in
2013 13 long and prosperous years after
its launch forget progress by proxy land
on your own name the ps2 became the
first console to sell a hundred million
units a fee which was accomplished with
the help of some of the most memorable
games ever including Metal Gear Solid 2
and Grand Theft Auto 3 along with it
spin-offs a mind boy 1.5 billion games
have been sold for the console in those
games and the console itself undoubtedly
have a place in gaming history with a
massive library of over 10,000 games and
exclusives such as eco God of War Gran
Turismo and more PlayStation 2 would
sell more than 150 million consoles
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