PS5 passes 100 million units shipped, Sony confirms

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PlayStation 5 has shipped more than 100 million units worldwide, making it the fourth PlayStation console to pass the milestone.

 

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) updated its official business data page on November 11th to list cumulative PS5 sell-in, meaning consoles shipped to retailers rather than sold to players, at "more than 100 million" as of November 10th, 2026. The milestone comes one day before the console's sixth anniversary, as it launched on November 12th, 2020.

 

How PS5 got to 100 million

 

According to Sony's quarterly figures, PS5 had shipped 97.9 million units by September 30th, 2026, so at least 2.1 million more consoles shipped in the following six weeks. That is already close to the 2.6 million Sony shipped in the whole July to September quarter, and the busiest part of the year is still to come.

 

The console's best fiscal year so far was April 2023 to March 2024, when Sony shipped 20.8 million units. Its biggest single quarter was October to December 2024, with 9.5 million. Sony notes that its sell-in figures include returned and refurbished products.

 

Where PS5 sits among PlayStation consoles

 

PS5 now joins the original PlayStation (more than 102.4 million), PlayStation 2 (more than 160 million) and PlayStation 4 (more than 117 million) as the only PlayStation hardware to pass 100 million. On the same page, Sony lists combined PS4 and PS5 software sell-in at more than 1.795 billion units as of September 30th.

 

The milestone lands a week before Grand Theft Auto VI launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 19th, a release that has already set pre-order records on PlayStation and Xbox.

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