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  • PlayStation 4The PlayStation 4 launched on the 15th of November 2013, and within its first 24 hours on sale in North America, one million units had already left store…
  • 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.
  • Nintendo SwitchNintendo Switch arrived in stores on the 3rd of March 2017, with a proposition that seemed almost too simple: what if the console you played on your…
  • PlayStation 5PlayStation 5 launched on the 12th of November 2020 in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, North America, and South Korea, with the rest of the world following a…
  • WiiOn the 19th of November 2006, Nintendo launched a home console that came bundled with a controller shaped like a television remote.
  • Sega GenesisIn October 1988, Sega released a machine called the Mega Drive into a Japanese market already dominated by Nintendo's Famicom.
  • 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.
  • Xbox 360On the 22nd of November 2005, Microsoft launched the Xbox 360 in the United States and Canada, kicking off what would become one of the most consequential…
  • 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…
  • Xbox Series X and Series SIndustry rumors of new Xbox hardware had started as early as June 2018, with Microsoft's Phil Spencer confirming they were deep into architecting the next…
  • Xbox OneIn May 2013, Microsoft pulled back the curtain on what it called an all-in-one entertainment system, a device it named the Xbox One.
  • 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…
  • AmigaThe Amiga arrived in July 1985 with a party at Lincoln Center in New York, and Andy Warhol was on stage drawing a digital portrait of Debbie Harry.
  • 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-16In July 1985, Hudson Soft approached Nintendo with a proposal for a new add-on to the Famicom. This device would use patented Bee Cards to store full games…
  • Wii UIn 2008, Nintendo began a quiet internal debate about the future of its home console business. The company recognized that the Wii had become associated…
  • 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.
  • Xbox (console)The Xbox is a home video game console that Microsoft released on the 15th of November 2001, and it arrived bearing a peculiar origin story.
  • 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.
  • Nintendo Switch 2Nintendo began pre-production of its next console shortly after the Switch's release, with a team reviewing the performance limitations of the original unit.
  • PlayStation ClassicThe PlayStation Classic went on sale on the 3rd of December 2018, chosen precisely because it was the 24th anniversary of the original PlayStation's debut.
  • PlayStationPlayStation entered the world in Japan on the 3rd of December 1994, and within a decade it had done something no console before it ever managed: ship more…
  • XboxXbox began with a threat. When Sony Computer Entertainment announced the PlayStation 2 in 1999 and positioned it as a home entertainment centerpiece that…