Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced on Wednesday that it has shipped 100 million PlayStation 5 consoles worldwide. The hardware is now Sony’s third-best-selling gaming console, behind the PS2 and PS4, and the eighth-best-selling video game console ever.
According to new company sales data, SIE has sold “more than 100 million” PS5 systems as of Tuesday, Nov. 10. The last system sales report, published in late September, estimated Sony had sold just under 98 million units.
SIE also reported a whopping 127 million monthly active users as of September 30.
The console sales milestone suggests at least 2.1 million PS5 sales were completed in the last six weeks, a buyer boost likely attributed to Rockstar Games’ upcoming smash hit, Grand Theft Auto VI.
The long-awaited crime RPG sequel is releasing on XBOX and PlayStation consoles on November 19, but because the GTA VI studio has not confirmed a PC port date yet, players are turning to consoles. Early signs point to a potential PC port of Grand Theft Auto VI sometime in Q1 2027.
PS5 named Sony Interactive Entertainment’s third-best-selling game system
Sony’s PlayStation 5 console launched in North America, Japan, and a few other regions on November 12, 2020, with a full global launch on November 19. The brand shipped nearly 5 million PS5 systems in its first fiscal quarter.
The launch lined up with that of Microsoft’s competing home console, the XBOX Series X|S. The latter released worldwide on November 10, just one day before PS5 sales began in the U.S. Microsoft, however, does not officially report these figures.
Sony’s PlayStation 2, released in 2000, remains the best-selling video game console of all time with 160 million units sold. Its historic, 13-year run wound down in 2013, when the company ceased PS2 production.
The PlayStation 4 is Sony’s second-best-selling system, hitting North American store shelves on November 15, 2013, with over 117 million units as of June 30, 2022. History shows SIE favors November for its North American console launches, a strategy that gets the systems to stores just in time for holiday shopping.
Check out current Sony PlayStation standings, listed here by number of consoles sold:
- PlayStation 2: More than 160 million (As of March 31, 2012)
- PlayStation 4: More than 117 million (As of June 30, 2022)
- PlayStation 5: More than 100 million (As of November 10, 2026)
- PlayStation: More than 102.4 million (As of March 31, 2012)
- PlayStation 3: More than 87.4 million (As of March 31, 2017)
- PSP (PlayStation Portable): More than 76.4 million (As of March 31, 2012)
Sony has not disclosed PS Vita data.
PlayStation 5 becomes eighth-best-selling video game console ever
The PS5 is the eighth consumer video game console to surpass 100 million units sold, and also ranks as the eighth-best-selling home game system ever released.
Check out current video game system sales, listed here in order of units sold:
- PlayStation 2 (Sony; 2000) — 160 million
- Nintendo Switch (Nintendo; 2017) — 157.2 million
- Nintendo DS (Nintendo; 2004) — 154 million
- Game Boy / Game Boy Color (Nintendo; 1989/1998) — 118.7 million
- PlayStation 4 (Sony; 2013) — 117 million
- PlayStation (Sony; 1994) — 102.5 million
- Wii (Nintendo; 2006) — 101.6 million
- PlayStation 5 (Sony; 2020) — 100 million
- PlayStation 3 (Sony; 2006) — 87.4 million
- XBOX 360 (Microsoft; 2005) — 84 million
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