PlayStation 5 shipments have passed 100 million worldwide. Sony Interactive Entertainment’s hardware figures date the milestone to November 10, 2026, almost six years after the console launched. Sony labels this series of figures sell-in, meaning consoles sold into the distribution channel.
What Sony counts
A unit can reach a retailer before someone buys it from the shelf. The shipment figure therefore cannot tell us the precise number of PS5s in homes, the number of individual owners or how many accounts played this month. Sony also notes that its quarterly PS5 hardware table includes returned and refurbished products.
Sony recorded 1.6 million PS5 units in its April–June quarter and 2.6 million in July–September. The November milestone is a later cumulative update.
Where PS5 stands among PlayStation consoles
Sony lists more than 102.4 million units for the original PlayStation and more than 117 million for PS4. Its rounded PS5 figure supports a comparison at the 100-million mark, but an exact gap would require a more precise total.
The timing also places the milestone ahead of GTA VI’s scheduled November 19 launch. The PlayStation Store preorder record for GTA VI measures demand for a game through a digital store. It provides no breakdown of how many customers bought a console for it.
Featured image credit: ActivePlayer graphic using Sony Interactive Entertainment’s hardware sales data.
