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Console generation 3 · 1983–1989

Who won the third console generation?

Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System won it, outselling Sega Mark III/Master System by 48.9 million units — 376% more hardware. Across all 4 machines the generation sold 83.9 million units, and games released on them collected 0 Game of the Year awards in our database.

  • 61.9MFamily Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System
  • 83.9MGeneration total
  • 4Machines
  • 0GOTY awards on them

Every machine in generation 3

ConsoleMaker ReleasedUnits GOTY awards on it
Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment SystemNintendo198361.91M0
Sega Mark III/Master SystemSega198513.00M0
Master System (Brazilian variants)Tectoy19898.00M0
Atari 7800Atari19861.00M0
The award column double-counts on purpose.

A game that shipped on three machines of this generation is counted for all three, because the question is how much award-winning software each box could play — not which console had it exclusively.