As part of today's (Thursday 5th November, 2026) financial results, Sony has confirmed that monthly active users, referred to as MAU, across both PlayStation 4 and 5, reached 127 million in September. This represents a seven percent growth year-on-year for the company, and sets a new record high.
In Layman's terms, this simply means that more people are engaged with the PlayStation ecosystem now than ever before. And it's not just that there are more people using machines and occasionally booting up their consoles; active play time also increased over the past quarter, too, with total logged play time increasing by four percent, year-on-year. As a result, Sony and PlayStation noted that its Game & Network Services division saw revenue grow by nine percent year-on-year, resulting in operating profit rising by 83 percent year-on-year.
