PS5 Ships 92.2 Million Units as of December 2025 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 February 2026 / 8,735 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment in its financial results announced it has shipped 92.2 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of December 31, 2025.
With 92.2 million PlayStation 5 consoles shipped that means 8.0 million units were shipped from October to December. This is down 1.5 million from the same quarter in 2024 when 9.5 million units were shipped.
For reference, the PlayStation 4 had shipped 8.1 million units in the same quarter for a lifetime total of 94.4 million units shipped as of December 31, 2018. This puts the PS5 behind shipped PS4 units by 2.2 million units.
There were a total of 97.2 million games sold on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 for the quarter. This is up 1.3 million from 95.9 million during the same period a year earlier. Digital sales accounted for 76 percent of software sales.
There were 13.2 million first-party games sold across the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. This is up 1.6 million from 11.6 million a year ago.
There were 132 million monthly active users on the PlayStation Network, an increase of 3 million from 129 million a year ago.
Sony's Game & Network Services Segment for the quarter ending December 31, 2025, reported revenue decreased 68.7 billion yen ($0.44 billion) year-over-year to 1,613.6 billion yen ($10.29 billion), while operating income increased 22.8 billion yen ($0.02 billion) to 140.8 billion yen ($0.90 billion).
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Wii and PS1 this year.
PS4 and Gameboy next year.
You wish.
Seems pretty reasonable
Why are you always so negative towards the biggest company in console gaming?
its a world of feelings these days
Yep, 2026 sales should beat PS4's 2019 sales, and in 2027 it will destroy it with PS6 unlikely to be coming that soon.
I don't think anyone ever expected PS6 to ship before Nov 2027 from the beginning, as Sony has been maintaining a 7-year lifecycle for consoles for a long time. So that still would have given PS5 the majority of 2027 to itself. But yeah, it is looking likely that it might be 2028 now - maybe Sony will change things up for the first time in a while, and go with a Summer 2028 launch (PS3/PS4/PS5 have all been in Nov lol).
So it will easily beat the Wii and PS1 on 2026.
2.2 million behind PS4.
Should be able to overtake it this year.
I don't know so much about GTA VI. Don't get me wrong, the game will do monstrous numbers for sure. But I think people are underestimating how much of the audience that wants that game already has a PS5 and/or are waiting to get it on PC.
And I think you are underestimating GTA in its totality.
Oh, I don't doubt GTA by any means. It's how much life and appeal the PS5 has left that I question.
From your perspective, what could be so unappealing or 'lifeless' about the PS5 that it could actually sell less this year than the PS4 did in its 6th year?
I'll give at least 200 to 350 reasons why.
If we look how GTA V was able to push hardware, a noteworthy boost should only remain about 3 to 4 weeks. And the peak boost should be below holiday weeks. GTA VI comes a bit too late in the life cycle of PS5 to push hardware significantly, just like it was the case with GTA V and PS3. Most people, who want GTA VI, already have a console.
I think it will for sure. Will probably blow past it by a few million. I would not expect any price hikes. In fact I expect the hardware to become a permanent loss leader of sorts. The safe bet is to assume that the biggest video game launch of all time will lead to amazing console sales. Any other conclusion feels forced.
That’s 4 100 million home consoles sold now not counting their handheld. Yea, they the king of the industry for real for real.
Better not start that,they dont want to hear that fact
Okay, but as time goes on, the population grows, the installed base evolves very little… costs are increasing. I fear that we will see a major decline in home consoles for the PS6–7 generations.
This brings me back to the latter days of the ps4 when people were saying it would easily pass 120 million. I'm pretty sure some were saying 125+ and 130+. We'll see how things go with the ps5. Some many seem to overestimate what an old console can do salewise.
Man, this PS4 bitch is really persistent, isn't she, haha.
Seriously though, it's exciting to see that, between PS5 vs PS4, it's not already set & done yet.
2.2M units is quite a meaningful gap considering the later stage now, but I am still convinced (70:30) that PS5 could still do it.
And if so (or even if not), we'll still be getting great data of how big of an impact the GTA franchise will have on hardware sales, since that's easier to track with a gap to close in hardware sales.
Generally speaking though, it's a bit heartbreaking (in the loosest meaning of the word ofc) glancing over PS5's hardware sales in 2021 and 2022, since they were nothing but abysmal compared to any other Playstation generation.
For both years combined in total, we're speaking a minimum (!) of 10M units that simply couldn't be sold. Which otherwise would had highly likely resulted in minimum of 102M units shipped as of December 2025.
Additionally, PS4 & PS5 gen are excellent proof of Shu Yoshida's statment last year that, in the console business, hardware sales are the most important factor.
Congrats to Playstation, that's a very healthy, a very good fifth Q3.
And congrats to the VGChartz team. Those recent quarter reports showed your estimates were pretty damn accurate!
Consoles sales down 1.5m and Revenue down 4% year on year - if it wasn't for a new Switch launching this past year how much would the gaming market contracted?
Yes it's a good thing that Switch 2 launched this past year to raise the lagging Switch hardware sales and that Sony was able keep the PS5 selling at a high rate as well. Both were needed to help offset the heavy decline/near death of the Xbox Series S/X hardware which is the main reason for the lack of industry growth this gen.
So, are Xbox players not present, or where are they?
In the end, there isn’t really a shift toward PlayStation, otherwise we would be ahead of the PS4, I suppose…
There is actually a real decline on the console side…
Some have moved to PC and some are still playing on Xbox one as well. With prices as they are it's too late in the gen to really notice a shift in platforms at the moment. But with next gen coming up is likely where the shift will happen especially now as MS games are coming day and date to PS like Fable for example. In terms of keeping pace with last gen, Sony matched the PS4 for the same quarter launch aligned from 2018. If you compare the Xbox series S/X with December 2018, it's down about 1M consoles from 1.4M to just over 400k pending any adjustments. It's not rocket science here, the falling % of the console industry is because the Big 3 is now just the Big 2.
