Sony Interactive Entertainment now lists more than 100 million PlayStation 5 consoles shipped worldwide, with the count dated 10 November. The console launched in November 2020, so it took about six years.
The number is a sell-in figure, meaning units shipped to retailers rather than bought by players. A console sitting in a warehouse or on a shop shelf counts, and a sale to a player is not what Sony is measuring. Sony does not say how the total splits between the standard console, the Slim and the Pro, or between regions.
Sony’s business data page puts the PS5 behind two of its predecessors: the PS2, with more than 160 million, and the PS4, with more than 117 million. The original PlayStation is listed at more than 102.4 million, a mark the PS5 has now passed, and the PS3 at more than 87.4 million.
The same page keeps separate tables for PS4 and PS5 hardware and for combined PS4 and PS5 software, all on a sell-in basis. That makes the hardware line comparable across generations, though it says nothing about how many of those consoles are in active use.
For context, the PS5 has overtaken the original PlayStation and the PS3 but is still some way short of the PS4’s total, so it would need roughly 17 million more consoles to pass it. Sony’s own page gives no forecast for when that might happen.
The page is updated by Sony as it reports, and the next milestone it lists will come with the company’s quarterly results.
