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Console generation 4 · 1988–1990

Who won the fourth console generation?

Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System won it, outselling Mega Drive/Genesis by 18.4 million units — 60% more hardware. Across all 3 machines the generation sold 82.8 million units, and games released on them collected 0 Game of the Year awards in our database.

  • 49.1MSuper Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System
  • 82.8MGeneration total
  • 3Machines
  • 0GOTY awards on them

Every machine in generation 4

ConsoleMaker ReleasedUnits GOTY awards on it
Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment SystemNintendo199049.10M0
Mega Drive/GenesisSega198830.75M0
Mega Drive (Brazilian variants)Tectoy19903.00M0
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.