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Console generation 8 · 2012–2025

Who won the eighth console generation?

Nintendo Switch won it, outselling PlayStation 4 by 39.4 million units — 34% more hardware. Across all 5 machines the generation sold 369.0 million units, and games released on them collected 10,773 Game of the Year awards in our database.

  • 156.6MNintendo Switch
  • 369.0MGeneration total
  • 5Machines
  • 10,773GOTY awards on them

Every machine in generation 8

ConsoleMaker ReleasedUnits GOTY awards on it
Nintendo SwitchNintendo2017156.59M2,020
PlayStation 4Sony2013117.20M4,547
Xbox OneMicrosoft201358.00M3,079
Nintendo Switch 2Nintendo202523.68M532
Wii UNintendo201213.56M595
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.

The most awarded games you could play on it

GameYear GOTY awards
The Last of Us Part II2020325
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt2015281
God of War2018267
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild2017265
The Last of Us2013257
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim2011229
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End2016191
Red Dead Redemption 22018179
Grand Theft Auto V2013165
Dragon Age: Inquisition2014139