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PlayStation 4: 117.20 million units sold

The PlayStation 4 is the #5 best-selling gaming machine of all time in this dataset. It belongs to the 8th generation, where it placed #2 of 5 machines by units sold.

  • 117.2MUnits sold
  • #5All-time rank
  • 8Generation
  • 2013Released

Games released on the PlayStation 4 hold 5,307 Game of the Year awards in this database, led by Elden Ring with 436. A game counts for every machine it shipped on, so these totals overlap between consoles. The most-awarded games on it: Elden Ring (436, 2022); The Last of Us Part II (325, 2020); The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (281, 2015).

Generation 8 counts 5 machines here, 369.0 million units between them; the best seller was Nintendo Switch at 156.6 million. The sales figure comes from Wikipedia, List of best-selling game consoles.

Of the 7 Sony machines tracked here, it is number 2 by units sold, behind PlayStation 2 at 160.0 million.

Its generation rivals

ConsoleMaker Units vs PlayStation 4
Nintendo SwitchNintendo156.59M+39.39M
Xbox OneMicrosoft58.00M-59.20M
Nintendo Switch 2Nintendo23.68M-93.52M
Wii UNintendo13.56M-103.64M

Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.