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Console generation 5 · 1993–1996
PlayStation won it, outselling Nintendo 64 by 69.6 million units — 211% more hardware. Across all 4 machines the generation sold 146.7 million units, and games released on them collected 12 Game of the Year awards in our database.
| Console | Maker | Released | Units | GOTY awards on it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PlayStation | Sony | 1994 | 102.49M | 0 |
| Nintendo 64 | Nintendo | 1996 | 32.93M | 9 |
| Sega Saturn | Sega | 1994 | 9.26M | 1 |
| 3DO | The 3DO Company | 1993 | 2.00M | 2 |
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.
No. PlayStation sold the most hardware, but the most award-winning library belonged to Nintendo 64 with 9 awards. Winning the generation commercially and winning it editorially were different outcomes here.
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.