Sony Interactive Entertainment says PlayStation 5 has passed 100 million units shipped worldwide. The company updated its official business data to list “more than 100 million” cumulative PS5 hardware units as of November 10, 2026.
The milestone is a sell-in figure, meaning consoles shipped into the retail channel rather than a direct count of units purchased by consumers. Sony has used different terminology for some earlier PlayStation disclosures, so the 100 million total should not be described as a precisely measured consumer sell-through number.
PS5 reached the mark almost six years after its November 2020 launch. Sony said cumulative shipments had exceeded 93 million by the end of March 2026. It then reported 1.6 million units in the April–June quarter and 2.6 million in the July–September quarter, taking reported fiscal-year shipments through September to 4.2 million before the latest milestone update.
How PS5 compares with earlier PlayStation hardware
Sony’s historical table puts PS5 above PlayStation 3, which finished at more than 87.4 million units, and PSP, which reached more than 76.4 million. The original PlayStation remains just ahead at more than 102.4 million, while PlayStation 4 stands at more than 117 million and PlayStation 2 at more than 160 million.
Those comparisons are useful for scale, but they are not perfectly like-for-like snapshots. The listed totals were recorded at different points in each product’s life, and Sony labels the hardware table as cumulative worldwide sell-in.
The company’s latest quarterly data also shows that PS5’s annual shipment pace has eased from its peak. Sony shipped 20.8 million PS5 consoles in fiscal 2023, followed by 18.5 million in fiscal 2024 and 16 million in fiscal 2025. Through the first half of fiscal 2026, shipments totaled 4.2 million compared with 6.5 million in the same two quarters a year earlier.
PlayStation’s active audience extends beyond PS5
Hardware shipments are only one part of Sony’s current PlayStation picture. The same business data page lists 127 million monthly active users across PS4 and PS5 as of September 30, 2026. Sony describes that user figure as an estimate based on its own research.
It also reports more than 1.795 billion cumulative PS4 and PS5 software units as of September 30. That software total includes physical releases, download-only games, PlayStation VR titles and software bundled with hardware, so it should not be read as PS5-only sales.
PS5 has now crossed a milestone reached by only a small group of PlayStation systems, but Sony has not given a more precise number beyond “more than 100 million.”
Which part of the PS5 generation has mattered most to you: the games, the hardware revisions or the wider PlayStation ecosystem?
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