Famitsu publishes all-time hardware sales

[A Black Falcon]

Those numbers mostly look like they're in the right ballpark, but aren't absolutely accurate. First, obviously, most of them are rounded off. Those are not the exact N64 (32.9 million) or Gamecube (21.74 million) sales numbers Nintendo has reported, for instance, for some proof of that. Also, I find that Saturn number interesting; previously estimates I'd seen of the system put it in the 9.5 million range, not 8.7. Though that 9.5 number may be wrong, 8.7 might be a bit low... also, for the DC the number I'd seen is 10.6 million, not 11. Again that source isn't 100% reliable, but at least it's a definitely rounded number.

Also, I've never actually heard a reliable worldwide number for Sega Genesis sales. One estimate put it at 29 million, but that number is too low, since it put US sales at 14 million while now it's thought US sales were probably a good bit higher than that (maybe in the 18-20 million range for North America, though all the proof isn't quite there yet, that number may be high, sources are conflicting...). 34 million could be right, but who knows, I've never heard anybody who does.

Oh yeah, and of course that "Game Boy" line includes the Game Boy Color as well as the various models of the original GB, but Nintendo never released separate sales numbers for the two systems. It doesn't include the GBA though.

Oh, and 10 million is the only Turbografx/PC Engine sales number I've seen, but considering that it pretty much totally bombed in the US and was barely even released in Europe, if that number is accurate that says a lot about how well the system did in Japan...

Also, Sony has shipped 145 million PS2s, and Microsoft 44.5 million X360s. Sure, not all of those have sold, but in the PS2's case particularly I would fully expect that the number is much closer to 145 million than 120.