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Console generation 6 · 1998–2001
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 161 Game of the Year awards in our database.
| Console | Maker | Released | Units | GOTY awards on it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PlayStation 2 | Sony | 2000 | 160.00M | 111 |
| Xbox | Microsoft | 2001 | 24.00M | 0 |
| Nintendo GameCube | Nintendo | 2001 | 21.74M | 90 |
| Dreamcast | Sega | 1998 | 9.13M | 5 |
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.
Yes. PlayStation 2 both outsold this generation and carried the most award-winning games on it (111 awards) — the two races agreed.
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.