PS5 passes 100 million units shipped, the fourth PlayStation to do so

PlayStation 5 has passed 100 million units shipped worldwide. The figure appears on Sony Interactive Entertainment's "Business Data & Sales" page, which lists "more than 100 million" as of 10 November 2026. This is sell-in, meaning consoles shipped to distributors and retailers, not necessarily already sold to players; Sony specifies that the sales figures include returned and refurbished products.

PS5 is the fourth PlayStation home console to pass the 100 million mark, after the original PlayStation (more than 102.4 million), PlayStation 2 (more than 160 million) and PlayStation 4 (more than 117 million), according to the same SIE data. The milestone comes close to the console's sixth anniversary: it launched on 12 November 2020 in its first markets.

The quarterly figures

Adding up the quarterly shipments published by Sony, PS5 shipments stood at 97.9 million as of 30 September 2026: just over 2 million more were therefore added in the following six weeks, in the run-up to the release of Grand Theft Auto VI, set for 19 November. The pace in 2026, however, is slower than the year before: in the April–June quarter Sony shipped 1.6 million PS5s (2.5 million a year earlier) and in July–September 2.6 million (against 4.0). In the first half of fiscal year 2026 the total is 4.2 million units, against 6.5 million in the same period of 2025, a drop of about 35%.

The other indicators published by SIE remain solid: PS4 and PS5 games shipped in the first half total 154.3 million (66.1 in the first quarter and 88.2 in the second), and as of 30 September 2026 PlayStation's estimated monthly active users stood at 127 million. The October–December quarter, historically the strongest (between 7.1 and 9.5 million PS5s a year in the last four fiscal years), will show how much the GTA VI effect weighs.