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Sony Officially Confirms Major PS5 Hardware Sales Milestone

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Sony Officially Confirms Major PS5 Hardware Sales Milestone

The impressive PS5 milestone has been reached before GTA 6 or the holiday season

Hardware sales may be down across the board in the video game industry, but that hasn't stopped Sony from reaching a major new PlayStation 5 sales milestone this year. The multimedia giant achieved its latest impressive sales feat prior to the holiday rush and before the highly-anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto 6 to boot.

Sony just revealed that the PS5 has reached 100 million units in sales as of Nov. 10, 2026. For contrast, Sony sold 84.2 million PS5 consoles around this time last year, in 2025. The PS5 still hasn't reached the PlayStation 4's lifetime sales of 117 million units, which places the older hardware among the best-selling gaming devices of all time. Still, the PS5 isn't that far off, given the six-year time frame — and the lack of GTA 6.

Though GTA 6 is a multiplatform game, Sony and Rockstar have repeatedly marketed the idea that the open-world game plays best on PS5. The PS5 Pro offers platform-specific features in GTA 6, like ray-traced shadows, which are sure to drive sales of the already scarce console further after the game's release on Nov. 19. Let's not forget the GTA 6-themed DualShock controllers, which undoubtedly precede an eventual GTA 6-themed PS5 console or bundle.

If that seems like a lot hinging on a single game, well, there's a reason for that. Sony is already treating GTA 6 like the biggest "exclusive" the platform has ever seen.


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