7% of PS5 Owners Have Purchased a PS Portal in the US, PS5 Pro Accounts for 3% of All PS5s Sold - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 January 2026 / 6,414 Views
Executive Director & Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana (NPD) Mat Piscatella has revealed seven percent of PlayStation 5 owners have a PlayStation Portal as of the end of 2025.
With an estimated 28.66 million PS5s sold through the end of 2025 in the US, according to VGChartz estimates, that would mean two million PlayStation Portals have been sold in the US.
"PlayStation Portal now has a 7% attach rate to PS5 hardware LTD," said Piscatella.
He also revealed three percent of all PS5s sold in the US are the PlayStation 5 Pro. That would put lifetime PS5 Pro sales at around 860,000 units in the US.
The marketshare of the PS5 Pro is expected to increase as it accounted for 13 percent of all PS5s sold in 2025. That would be a little over 500,000 units sold for the year.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.
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the 5pro just didnt make much sense, unlike the 4pro.
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised it managed 13%. I'm sure though a big portion of that is just people buying a PS5 for the first time who feel like they have the money so might as well just get the more powerful model even if it doesn't make a difference in most games.
I think Pro will really get some momentum behind it once FSR4 comes to it this year and PS6 inevitably gets delayed beyond 2027
That's way more Portals than what I imagined.
Don't know if I'm impressed with Pro sales or not
It's more than I thought... but certainly less than Sony was hoping for lol
Either way... you can expect studios to continue to not put much effort into proper Pro support with numbers like this
FSR4 should help a lot with that.
PS5 Pro packaged with GTA6 will move tons of systems
I'm guilty for both cases :D
PS Portal was at 5% to the end of September, right? I'm pretty sure that means it sold more copies than the series X/S over the holiday period.
Thats about a million Pro units sold. But lets face it the Pro is essentially a machine built for GTA 6. its time is coming. I still expect it to capture at least 10% when all is said and done. Its ultimate fate will be tied to how much Sony can reduce its price over the next year and a half.
Hasn't everything we've seen from GTA been running on the regular PS5?
I don't think the Pro will have any special features or a 60fps mode, it'll just clean up the image quality/break up and maybe have higher quality RT.
GTAs majority market will be more casual gamers so I don't expect a disproportionate impact on the premium SKU
I want a ps portal and a ps5pro lol
A proud PS5 Pro owner since Christmas day 2025 and i’m super glad i upgraded from PS5 (loved my time with it) since i can see a difference that varies in many games thankfully and looking forward to the next few years where i don’t have to compromise anymore playing at 60FPS.
PS Portal only exists to cash in on Nintendo Switch.
Yes, after the Switch invented handheld gaming, the whole industry is chasing the trend.
Why is that not added to ps5 sales like switch lite( a handheld only) i,i mean it can only play ps5 games..it is a ps5 handheld
The Switch Lite can play virtually the entire Switch library with no added hardware, internet connection, subscription, etc. It does everything a Switch does except output to a TV. The Switch Lite does not interact with the Switch (unless you're doing some multiplayer games) and it is therefore not an accessory.
The PS Portal on the other hand can not run PS5 games natively. Running PS5 games natively is what I would argue is the most important feature of a PS5, so that's a pretty big problem. It can not run them on remote play unless you have a PS5. As you need a PS5 for the portal to be useful, it is best classified as an accessory. And it requires a decent wifi connection. And not all software compatible with PS5 works on remote play.
It can run games off of PSNow, or whatever they call it nowadays, but that requires a subscription and internet connection. And, the reason it can run either remote play or PSNow is because it is running on an Android OS. Unless any android phone is a PS5 (or at least any android phone which can only run the PSNow and Remote Play Apps) then arguing the PSPortal is a PS4 would be pretty dumb. Also, the PS5 itself actually can run non-PS5 games on PSNow (PS4 and PS3 games) while I don't think the Portal can. So, even in that functionality it doesn't match up to a PS5.
In conclusion the Switch Lite does basically anything the Switch does except connect to a TV and has basically identical hardware to the original Switch. It does not need a Switch to do any of this. Without already owning a PS5 and actively having it on, the PSPortal can run a subset of the PS5 library if you have a subscription to a service and a wifi connection. It does not have any of the hardware that a PS5 has, nor does it have much functionality beyond that of the average ios or android device.
The Switch Lite is not a Switch (they are two different things) but considering the overlap in functionality, categorizing them together is logical. The PSPortal is so far off from what the PS5 can do that only someone who is trolling would seriously argue that it makes sense to count a PSPortal as a PS5. I assume you are not a troll and hence you will accept this reasoning.
Tldr version: if I buy a copy of Mario Kart 8 and a Switch Lite I can play it. If I have a PS portal and a copy of God of War Ragnarok I have a PS Portal and a frisbee.
It's a streaming device. If Xbox released a $50 tv stick that only connected to XCloud we wouldn't count it as Xbox Series sales.
If you start counting any device PS5 can stream to as a PS5 sale, then you need to count every phone in the world with the Remote play App.
Weird i though you could download the games on it,my bad then.
