PS5 Ships 97.9 Million Units as of September 2026 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted 1 day ago / 4,243 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment in its financial results announced it has shipped 97.9 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of September 30, 2026.
With 97.9 million PlayStation 5 consoles shipped that means 2.6 million units were shipped from July to September. This is down 1.4 million (-35%) from the same quarter last year when 4.0 million units were shipped.
For reference, the PlayStation 4 had shipped 2.8 million units in the same quarter for a lifetime total of 103.0 million units shipped as of September 30, 2019. This puts the PS5 behind shipped PS4 units by 5.1 million units.
There were a total of 88.2 million games sold on the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 for the quarter. This is up 7.9 million (10%) from 80.3 million during the same period a year earlier. Digital sales accounted for 78 percent of software sales.
There were 8.2 million first-party games sold across the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. This is up 1.9 million from 6.3 million a year ago.
There were 127 million monthly active users on the PlayStation Network, an increase of eight million from 119 million a year ago.
Sony's Game & Network Services Segment for the quarter ending September 30, 2026, reported revenue increased 95.3 billion yen ($0.60 million) year-over-year to 1,208.5 billion yen ($7.65 billion), while operating income increased 99.7 billion yen ($0.63 billion) to 220.1 billion yen ($1.39 billion).
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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On par with Switch 2 shipments in it's 6th year with multiple price hikes and (forced) online hate.
Must be nice for Sony.
PS5 will end up no higher than 4th all time and no lower than 6th all time.
98 million—if around 5 million units are shipped in the final quarter, that will bring the PS5 to 103 million by the end of the year. How many units do you think will be shipped in this last quarter?
I know Hardstuck Platinum will disagree, but a gap of 5.1 million units in favor of PS4 seems a bit too big that GTA VI will be able to close the gap completely.
