Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Business Data & Sales page now puts cumulative worldwide PlayStation 5 hardware unit sales at “More than 100 million” as of 10 November 2026, close to six years after the console went on sale in November 2020.

The figure is sell-in, which counts consoles shipped to retailers rather than units bought by players. A footnote on Sony’s quarterly hardware table says the totals include returned and refurbished products.

Gematsu, which reported the update, measured the new total against Sony Group’s quarterly financial report of 97.9 million units shipped as of 30 September 2026, and put the difference at 2.1 million units in the 40 days since.

Because “more than 100 million” is a floor rather than an exact count, the volume added since the end of September is at least 2.1 million.

How the quarterly figures add up

Sony breaks the running total into fiscal years that start in April. The PS5 arrived in the October to December quarter of FY2020, which accounted for 4.5 million units, followed by 3.3 million in the January to March quarter, for a partial-year total of 7.8 million.

Shipments then climbed for three years: 11.5 million in FY2021, 19.1 million in FY2022 and 20.8 million in FY2023, the highest full-year figure on the chart. FY2024 came in at 18.5 million and FY2025 at 16.0 million.

In every full year, the October to December quarter has been the largest. The biggest single quarter listed is the 9.5 million of October to December 2024, ahead of 8.2 million in the same quarter of FY2023 and 7.9 million in FY2025.

For the current fiscal year, Sony has published 1.6 million units for April to June 2026 and 2.6 million for July to September 2026, below the 2.5 million and 4.0 million recorded in the matching quarters of FY2025. The quarter that contains 10 November has not been published, so the 100 million line appears in the summary table before it appears in the quarterly breakdown.

Where the PS5 sits against earlier PlayStation hardware

The same page carries lifetime sell-in totals for Sony’s older machines. The PlayStation 4 is listed at more than 117 million as of 30 June 2022, the latest date published for that console. The PlayStation 2 is listed at more than 160 million, the original PlayStation at more than 102.4 million and the PSP at more than 76.4 million, all as of 31 March 2012. The PlayStation 3 stands at more than 87.4 million as of 31 March 2017. Sony does not disclose sales data for the PlayStation Vita.

GamesRadar+ described the PS5 as the fourth Sony console to pass 100 million, after the PS1, PS2 and PS4, and said it did so just shy of its sixth anniversary on 12 November 2026. By that outlet’s count, the PS4 took five years, eight months and 15 days to reach the mark and the PS2 five years, eight months and 26 days, both quicker than the PS5, while the PS1 took nine years, five months and 15 days.

GamesRadar+ said the coming release of GTA 6 likely helped the recent pace, and that the total had been reached despite the hardware shortages of the console’s first years and later price rises. The outlet put the cheapest digital model at £519.99 / $599.99 against a launch price of £359.99 / $399.99.

Any comparison with the previous generation rests on an old number. The PS4 total of more than 117 million has not been revised since 30 June 2022, and Sony stopped reporting quarterly PS4 shipments after FY2021, when the console moved 1.0 million units across the year. On the same tables, the PS4’s best full year was FY2016 at 20.0 million units, slightly below the PS5’s 20.8 million in FY2023.

Software and users on the same page

Sony reports combined PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 software sell-in of more than 1.795 billion units as of 30 September 2026, a count that covers physical and download-only titles, PS VR titles and software bundled with consoles. Quarterly software shipments for the current fiscal year stand at 66.1 million for April to June and 88.2 million for July to September, after a full-year high of 317.9 million in FY2025.

Older platforms are listed separately: more than 999.4 million PS3 titles as of 31 March 2019, more than 1,537.0 million PS2 titles and more than 962.0 million PlayStation titles as of 31 March 2012, and more than 331.0 million PSP titles on the same date.

The page also puts PlayStation monthly active users at 127 million as of 30 September 2026, described as an estimate based on Sony Interactive Entertainment research. It carries no subscriber figures for PlayStation Plus, whose monthly game lineups, such as the PlayStation Plus games for November 2026, are published elsewhere.

Accessories are absent from the tables as well. Sony publishes no sell-in figure for the PlayStation Portal remote-play handheld, including a new model announced for Japan with a storage upgrade.

Before the 10 November entry, the most recent published PS5 shipment figure was the 97.9 million in Sony Group’s quarterly results for the period ended 30 September 2026.