The 10 Fastest Selling Home Consoles Of All Time

A need for sales speed.

4) Wii – 600,000 units sold in 8 days

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Touting motion controls at the center of its “new way to play” video games, nobody really saw the monumental success of the Wii coming. The console would make its way into the corner of millions of living rooms across America. Young and old, male and female — the Wii was a universal entertainment system that drew interest from traditional and all-new sectors of the market.

The console’s first week at retail would only be the start of the story, as the Wii would end up as the best-selling hardware in the Big N’s history. For reference, on our scale, dividing by seven over its confirmed 600,000 sales in eight days, the Wii averaged 75,000 sales per day, peaking at 575,000 by the week’s end.

3) PlayStation 2 – 500,000 units sold in 24 hours

PlayStation 2

Sony’s PS2 sold just over an extraordinary 500,000 units in just 24 hours, which was the entire allotment for the country back in 2001. On our scale, that means that Sony’s second iteration of the PlayStation equates to 3.5 million units sold in its first seven days, assuming it continued at that incredible rate.

In actual fact, the PS2 had already sold 908,000 units in Japan alone during its first week, and 3.52 million by the time it reached western shores five months later. The console would continue to post strong sales numbers, setting new records that now places it as the best-selling gaming system of all time. The PS2 was only officially discontinued at the same time the PS4 was being prepared for launch, 12 years later.


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