11Nintendo Switch consoles
Nintendo sold more Nintendo Switch consoles in its first year than Wii U consoles in its entire lifetime.
12PlayStation 2 and 4
The PlayStation 2 had almost 13 years of production, enjoying new games until a month before the announcement of the PlayStation 4.
13NES Zapper
The NES light gun (NES Zapper) worked by detecting flashes of light on your tv screen. When the trigger was pulled, the tv flashed all black for a single frame, then all black with the target white for one frame. Also, it only works with CRTs.
14Game Boy
The Game Boy ran at 60 frames per second.
15Red Ring of Death
The Xbox 360's "Red Ring of Death" problem was so widespread that, in 2007, more than 30% of the consoles failed. Repairs cost Microsoft $1.15 billion.
16Famicom
The reason the Famicom (and later the Super Famicom and SNES) had an eject lever was not because pulling out the game was bad for the cartridge but because the designer, Masayuki Uemura, felt that it could entertain children even when ejecting games.
17Sega Master System
The Sega Master System sold roughly 150,000 units in 2015 in Brazil and by 2016 sold 8 million units. New and exclusive games are still made specific to Brazil. It has remained popular in Brazil since its 1989 debut, making it the longest running console of all time.
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18NES
The anti-piracy chip was the main cause of cartridge boot failures on the NES.
19Game Boy
Game Boy was the first video game console to be played in space by Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov. The game he played was Tetris.
20Atari 2600
The Atari 2600 was so popular, it was not discontinued until 1992 - years after its own successors, the 5200 and the 7800, died off. Its 15-year official lifespan is one of the longest for any console.
