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Console generation 9 · 2020–2020
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 4,279 Game of the Year awards in our database.
| Console | Maker | Released | Units | GOTY awards on it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PlayStation 5 | Sony | 2020 | 95.30M | 4,279 |
| Xbox Series X/S | Microsoft | 2020 | 35.00M | 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.
Yes. PlayStation 5 both outsold this generation and carried the most award-winning games on it (4,279 awards) — the two races agreed.
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.