PlayStation hits 127 million monthly users in Sep 2026

Sony reported PlayStation reached 127 million monthly active users in September 2026, an increase of 8 million compared with the same period a year earlier and 2 million more than the previous quarter.

The figure appears amid ongoing user-led campaigns—No Disc, No Buy and PS5 Blackout—that criticized Sony's handling of physical game media and encouraged changes to purchasing habits and even how some owners use their consoles. Sony's published financials do not disclose how many people joined those protests or whether participants continued to use PlayStation services during the quarter.

Media outlet Push Square has argued that the protest campaigns produced no observable impact on PlayStation's performance, citing Sony's quarterly financial report as evidence. That report, however, aggregates results across Sony's businesses and offers only high-level sales and usage totals, which leaves open the possibility that aggregate growth could mask localized changes in user behavior.

Digital-share figures and reporting limits

In the same quarter Sony said digital downloads represented 78 percent of full-game unit sales by units sold, a rise of 6 percentage points year on year. Sony also noted that revenue from physical game sales increased compared with the prior year. Because the quarterly data cover multiple company divisions and report unit and revenue aggregates, they cannot by themselves reveal how much the protest campaigns affected buying patterns or platform engagement.

Official, verifiable counts of boycott participants are not available, a gap that makes it difficult to measure the independent effect of No Disc, No Buy and PS5 Blackout on PlayStation's usage and sales during the quarter.