Sony Has Shipped More than 100 Million PlayStation 5 Consoles After 6 Years

Sony has now shipped more than 100 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of November 10, 2026, the company revealed on its updated business sales data portal (via Eurogamer). Even though the company admitted in its latest post earnings conference call that PS5 sales are “gradually declining as expected in this stage of the console life cycle,” the console should benefit from the upcoming release of GTA VI, which is being marketed as “playing best on PS5.”

This console generation is unlike any other, as hardware prices are actually increasing instead of decreasing due to AI-fueled memory price hikes. Still, as pointed out by video game industry analyst Daniel Ahmad, the PlayStation had sold 103 million units at the same point in its lifecycle, so the PS5 isn’t lagging too far behind. It remains to be seen, however, if the PS5 can cross the 117 million unit sales of the PS4.

While Sony hasn’t said yet when it plans to release the successor to the PlayStation 5,  Sony CFO Lin Tao recently said that the company was making “solid progress” on it. With the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition now starting at $599, it’s not immediately clear how Sony and its competitor Microsoft will manage to make their next-gen hardware affordable for consumers.

After releasing some of its biggest games on PC, the PlayStation team is apparently moving away from multiplatform development. Recent first-party games such as Ghost of Yotei and Marvel’s Wolverine will likely remain exclusive to PlayStation consoles, and the latter has already sold over 2.4 million units since its release on September 15.

Sony’s disinterest in the PC audience became clearer yesterday when the company announced its plan to discontinue its PlayStation Plus cloud streaming app on PC on December 10. “With a very small number of eligible PlayStation Plus Premium members (less than 0.4%) using the PlayStation Plus app on PC, making this change allows us to focus on enhancing high-quality experiences that more of our members want to use,” the PlayStation team said yesterday.