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Discontinued video game consoles

  • PlayStation 3The PlayStation 3 launched in Japan on the 11th of November 2006, and within 24 hours Sony had sold more than 81,000 units.
  • PlayStation (console)PlayStation was born from humiliation. On the first day of the 1991 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony stood on stage and announced a partnership…
  • GameCubeThe GameCube launched in Japan on the 14th of September, 2001, with roughly half a million units shipped to retailers across the country.
  • WiiOn the 19th of November 2006, Nintendo launched a home console that came bundled with a controller shaped like a television remote.
  • PlayStation 2The PlayStation 2 sold 160 million units worldwide, a number so large it nearly triples the combined sales of every rival console it competed against.
  • Sega SaturnOn the 11th of May, 1995, Tom Kalinske took the stage at the very first Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles and changed the course of video game…
  • Super Nintendo Entertainment SystemOn the 21st of November 1990, Nintendo loaded 100 trucks with Super Famicom consoles and sent them out under cover of darkness, timing deliveries for the…
  • Nintendo 64The Nintendo 64 launched in Japan on the 23rd of June, 1996, and by the end of that first day, every single one of the initial 300,000 units had sold out.
  • DreamcastThe Dreamcast launched in Japan on the 27th of November 1998, and within a single day every unit on store shelves was gone.
  • Master SystemThe Sega Master System was born twice. First as the Mark III in Japan on the 20th of October 1985, and then reborn under a new name chosen by employees…
  • TurboGrafx-16The TurboGrafx-16 sold half a million units in its first week on Japanese shelves in October 1987. That number tells you something important: this was not an…
  • Wii UThe Wii U arrived in late 2012 carrying a promise that Nintendo desperately needed to keep. After the runaway success of the Wii, the company had come to be…
  • Nintendo Entertainment SystemThe Nintendo Entertainment System launched in New York City on the 18th of October 1985, into a market that trade press had declared dead.
  • Atari 2600The Atari 2600 arrived in stores in the autumn of 1977, and within five years, the word "Atari" had become a synonym for video games themselves in mainstream…
  • Amiga CD32The Amiga CD32 was announced to the world on the 16th of July 1993, not at a trade show or gaming convention, but at the Science Museum in London.
  • OuyaThe Ouya raised one million dollars in the first eight hours of its Kickstarter campaign. That is not a typo. Eight hours.