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Console generation 7 · 2005–2006
Wii won it, outselling PlayStation 3 by 14.2 million units — 16% more hardware. Across all 3 machines the generation sold 273.0 million units, and games released on them collected 2,694 Game of the Year awards in our database.
| Console | Maker | Released | Units | GOTY awards on it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wii | Nintendo | 2006 | 101.63M | 229 |
| PlayStation 3 | Sony | 2006 | 87.40M | 2,552 |
| Xbox 360 | Microsoft | 2005 | 84.00M | 0 |
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.
No. Wii sold the most hardware, but the most award-winning library belonged to PlayStation 3 with 2,552 awards. Winning the generation commercially and winning it editorially were different outcomes here.
A console's figure counts every awarded game that shipped on it, so multi-platform releases raise several boxes at once and an exclusive raises only one. That makes this a measure of what you could play, not of what you could play only there — and it is why the numbers here are larger than any single console's exclusive line-up. All consoles, sales against awards.
Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.