Meta Awards Every Game of the Year award, counted
Menu

Explore

Rankings

Database

Seasons

Home › Consoles › Generation 6

Console generation 6 · 1998–2001

Who won the sixth console generation?

PlayStation 2 won it, outselling Xbox by 136.0 million units — 567% more hardware. Across all 4 machines the generation sold 214.9 million units, and games released on them collected 166 Game of the Year awards in our database.

  • 160.0MPlayStation 2
  • 214.9MGeneration total
  • 4Machines
  • 166GOTY awards on them

Every machine in generation 6

ConsoleMaker ReleasedUnits GOTY awards on it
PlayStation 2Sony2000160.00M92
XboxMicrosoft200124.00M0
Nintendo GameCubeNintendo200121.74M74
DreamcastSega19989.13M0
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.

The most awarded games you could play on it

GameYear GOTY awards
Resident Evil 4200536
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess200626
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas20049
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker20038
Shadow of the Colossus20056
Rock Band20076
Katamari Damacy20043
Guitar Hero20063
Psychonauts20053
Okami20063