PS5 Ships 84.2 Million Units as of September 2025, Ghost of Yotei Sells 3.3 Million - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 November 2025 / 9,870 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment in its financial results announced it has shipped 84.2 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of September 30, 2025.
With 84.2 million PlayStation 5 consoles shipped that means 3.9 million units were shipped from July to September. This is up 0.1 million from the same quarter in 2024 when 3.8 million units were shipped.
For reference, the PlayStation 4 had shipped 3.9 million units in the same quarter for a lifetime total of 86.3 million units shipped as of September 30, 2018. This puts the PS5 behind shipped PS4 units by 2.1 million units.
It was also announced Ghost of Yotei has sold 3.3 million units as of November 2, 2025.
There were a total of 80.3 million games sold on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 for the quarter. This is up 2.6 million from 77.7 million during the same period a year earlier. Digital sales accounted for 72 percent of software sales.
There were 6.3 million first-party games sold across the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. This is up 1.0 million from 5.3 million a year ago.
There were 119 million monthly active users on the PlayStation Network, an increase of 3 million from 116 million a year ago.
Sony's Game & Network Services Segment for the quarter ending September 30, 2025, reported revenue increased 41.6 billion yen ($0.27 billion) year-over-year to 1,113.2 billion yen ($7.21 billion), while operating income decreased 18.5 billion yen ($0.12 billion) to 120.4 billion yen ($0.78 billion).
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That's 100k more than Q2 2024 and just 600k less than the Switch 2's 4.5 million.
Mighty impressive for a console in its 5th year and with multiple price hikes.
Gaming consoles in general (excluding XBSXS) are red hot at the moment. Across Switch 1+2 & PS5, that’s nearly 10mil hardware units shipped in the Q3CY25. This is insane!
Put the Xbox in, and you got your 10M shipments!
On a sidenote:
I would love to see official shipment data from Microsoft.
M$ doesn't make X-Box X/S for more than 2 years now, they are selling the one's they have in stock, and the biggest trouble is that nobody wants them anymore. RIP Ex-Box ☠️ !!!
How are you so fast?
Thank you very much for the news, all important data AND currency conversion in brackets. Not many sites do that.
That's a very decent Q2 for Playstation!
With only operating income being down year-on-year due to Bungie and Destiny 2 depreciations, according to their financial report, and increased R&D budget in the G&NS segment.
Otherwise; hardware sales up again (which is a very strong indicator I think), software sales up (which is why hardware sales are important), revenue up.
And:
3.3m for Yōtei as of November, 2nd. Congrats to SP, I think it's likely Yōtei could top 4-4.5m as of December, 31st.
Sell-through estimates as of September, 30th are pretty good, but could probably be slightly undertracked?
At least current data would put the gap between shipped and sold-through at 4.1m units as of September, 30th.
We are adjusting our estimates. The data we had did not show it doing this well. So adjustments will mainly be in countries and regions where we get limited data from.
Yes.
(Edit: Adjusted, that's now a rock solid 10:1 ratio for PS5 vs Series in September, which ofc could have been spread across July to August, too. But I think September was the bigger month of the three.)
That's quite possibly China/India here, huh?
Yeah mainly in Asia, plus the PS5 was discounted across Europe in September, which we are thinking is another place/month we undertracked. We increased sales in Europe for September, but looking at this we didn't increase it nearly enough
I can imagine it's pretty difficult to keep up with the discounts.
$7.2 billion in revenue, almost $2 billion more than Xbox + Bethesda + Activision/Blizzard, nice.
130 million life time by 2030. Calling it now.
LMAO...
never going to happen
Its ez for PS5!
I think there are two big bangs still to happen that could only accelerate that:
• Of course, GTA6.
It's a huge, actually the current industry's biggest appetizer to let old-gen go and switch to next-gen.
• Official price reduction.
Digital, Disc, Pro - if they could put them at 349, 399 (even 419) and 599, that would be a huge boost.
$7.2 billion in revenue, almost $2 billion more than Xbox + Bethesda + Activision/Blizzard, very good.
Great results for PS5 with being up YoY and matching the same quarter for Spiderman PS4 2018.
Incredible! It's likely that the PS5 will surpass PS3 sales by the end of the year.
Is it possible these numbers are a reflection of the plight of Xbox users finally jumping over to PlayStation? Being up YoY is very unexpected for two consecutive quarters, regardless of whether there was a generous discount in Europe.
I personally assume it's the other way around:
Xbox One users have already jumped to Playstation in large capacity. (I personally think total X|S shipments sit at 26-28m units as of today.)
And as of 2024, there were still 60 (!) million PS4s counted by Sony being actively in use.
Even if I assumed only 10 million of them are still PS4-only users - them continously jumping to PS5 now would mean PS5 grabbed Xbox users already.
And growing current-gen-only 3rd party support is showing its effectiveness in pulling people over and leaving last-gen behind.
Personally, I am still far away from outruling PS5 could not reach 130m plus.
I mean ... GTA6. Let alone CoD current-gen-only possibly next year, EA FC, etc. BF6 already did it.
When time aligned:
XSX is 10M behind the XBO
PS5 is 2M behind the PS4
It doesn't look like hardly anyone that left Xbox is going to PlayStation... beyond maybe a few percent
Looks more like 99% of them went over to PC
Now I'm totally sure it will be beat PS4 lifetime sales.
How are you so sure?
Its still behind the PS4 time aligned sales by 2 million... and NS2 seems to be a far more competent competitor than NS1 was
1) Wolverine
2) Intergalactic : The Heretic Prophet
3) GTA VI
4) GTA VI
5) GTA VI
6) GTA VI
7) GTA VI
8) Switch 2 is not a competitor just like Switch wasn't
9) Xbox brand is dead
10) Sony decide that this gen, PS5 gen will be here for 10 years
You will be ok, don't worry.
"You will be ok, don't worry" lmao
I couldn't care less if it hits 200M... I already own 2 personally
I just don't see any evidence of that actually happening
By the time GTA6 releases, 95% of people that want to play it will already have a PS5 or Xbox
Xbox Series is 10M units behind the XOne and the PS5 is 2M behind the PS4...
So Ex-Xbox owners obviously aren't moving to PS5 in droves, they're going over to PC
You are assuming they have moved on from PS4. But 60 million PS4's are still in use.
Indeed. Anyone that doesn't understand how giant GTA 6 will be is in for a shock when it finally drops.
Plus the November 2026 delay plays towards Sony. By this time next year, the chances of Xbox Series consoles even still being in the conversation will be very low.
So basically GTA 6 is a PS5 exclusive by that point. The biggest game ever is essentially exclusive to PS5, and how big that is can't be understated.
2 million - that's 10 consecutive months in which PS5 is selling 200K more units than aligned PS4.
How unlikely is that only looking at GTA6 alone?
And that's not taking continued support of 1st party games into account - just imagine if Intergalactic turns out another 94/95'ish critics hit from Naughty Dog.
It's weird, PS5 has been trailing PS4 sales numbers pretty much since the start, but i just cannot imagine a world where the PS5 doesn't end up with way more sales, 130-135M would be my guess
Impressive they are selling as much PS5 with how bland this gen has been compared to PS4 which they literally hit the ball everytime.
I've got a new video on YouTube discussing Sony's latest earnings report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpsg1XQmQ8A
Comparing a new game vs old game. Nice one
