Who won the ninth console generation?

26 February 2026

PlayStation 5 won it, outselling Xbox Series X/S by 60.3 million units — 172% more hardware. Across all 2 machines the generation sold 130.3 million units, and games released on them collected 2,094 Game of the Year awards in our database.

95.3MPlayStation 5
130.3MGeneration total
2Machines
2,094GOTY awards on them

Every machine in generation 9

Console	Maker	Released	Units	GOTY awards on it
PlayStation 5	Sony	2020	95.30M	2,094
Xbox Series X/S	Microsoft	2020	35.00M	0

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

Game	Year	GOTY awards
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2015	281
God of War	2018	267
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	2011	229
Grand Theft Auto V	2013	165
Death Stranding	2019	118
Red Dead Redemption	2010	111
Resident Evil 2	2019	95
It Takes Two	2021	89
Ghost of Tsushima	2020	75
Hades	2020	74

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Who won the ninth console generation?

Every machine in generation 9

The most awarded games you could play on it