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PlayStation 5: 95.30 million units sold

The PlayStation 5 is the #8 best-selling gaming machine of all time in this dataset. It belongs to the 9th generation, where it placed #1 of 2 machines by units sold.

• 95.3MUnits sold
• #8All-time rank
• 9Generation
• 2020Released

Games released on the PlayStation 5 hold 4,279 Game of the Year awards in this database, led by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 with 540. A game counts for every machine it shipped on, so these totals overlap between consoles. The most-awarded games on it: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (540, 2025); Elden Ring (436, 2022); Baldur's Gate 3 (290, 2023).

Generation 9 counts 2 machines here, 130.3 million units between them; it was the best seller of them all. The sales figure comes from Wikipedia, List of best-selling game consoles.

Of the 7 Sony machines tracked here, it is number 4 by units sold, behind PlayStation 2 at 160.0 million.