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PS5 Ships 97.9 Million Units as of September 2026
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 XX 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).
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