PS5 100 million shipments, Digi Mart USA News: Sony’s Business Data & Sales page now lists the PS5 at more than 100 million units as of November 10, 2026. These are sell-in figures, meaning consoles shipped to retailers rather than bought by players, and they include returned and refurbished units.
The PS5 becomes the fourth PlayStation console to pass 100 million, joining the original PlayStation (more than 102.4 million), the PS2 (more than 160 million) and the PS4 (more than 117 million). The PS5 launched in November 2020, so the milestone took almost six years, making it the third-fastest PlayStation to reach the mark.
Quarterly figures suggest the final stretch came quickly. Adding Sony’s numbers puts the PS5 at about 97.9 million units at the end of September, meaning roughly 2.1 million more consoles shipped in the six weeks before November 10. That window overlaps with the run-up to GTA VI, which launches on November 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Sensor Tower estimates the PS5 accounts for around 74% of the game’s digital pre-orders.
The headline figure masks a weaker sales year. The PS5 shipped 2.6 million units in the July to September quarter, up from 1.6 million in April to June but down from 4 million in the same period a year earlier.
The April to June figure was also down from 2.5 million a year before.
Price appears to be a major factor. Sony announced its latest price increase on March 27, effective April 2, citing “continued pressures in the global economic landscape.” In the US, the standard PS5 with a disc drive now costs $649.99, the Digital Edition $599.99 and the PS5 Pro $899.99. The standard PS5 launched at $499.99 in 2020 and the PS5 Pro at $699.99 in 2024. The source links the increases to an industry-wide memory and storage shortage that Sony has tied to demand from AI data centers.
Circana data showed US PlayStation console sales falling 30% year over year in April, the first month at the new prices.
Sony Group CEO Hiroki Totoki told The Wall Street Journal in August that, with the PS5 in the second half of its life cycle, the company did not need to “aggressively sell the console today” and would focus on recurring revenue from existing users. Sony has also faced criticism for its July 1 announcement that it will stop producing physical discs for new PlayStation games from January 2028; games released on disc before then are unaffected.
To mark the milestone, Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s Computing and Graphics Group, posted a photo on X with Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Hideaki Nishino. According to the post’s image description, Huynh holds a PS5 Pro signed by Nishino, AMD CEO Lisa Su and himself, while Nishino holds a special PS5 Pro made for the milestone.
AMD supplies the custom processors in the PS5 and PS5 Pro, and in October 2025 Huynh and PlayStation lead architect Mark Cerny presented technologies from their Project Amethyst collaboration, which Cerny said were headed to “a future console.” Sony has not formally announced the PS6.
