Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan penned a blog post today celebrating the one year anniversary of the PlayStation 5. While celebrating the year of hard work Sony employees have done and the key exclusive releases the PlayStation has seen (all three of them), Ryan also reported the top ten most-played games on PS5:
- Fortnite
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
- FIFA 21
- NBA 2K21
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
- Destiny 2
- MLB The Show 21
- Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- Demon’s Souls
- NBA 2K22
These games are ranked by number of hours played, not number of players who downloaded them. Ryan reports that PS5 players logged a cumulative 4.6 billion hours of gameplay, and broadcast more than 26 million hours of streamed gaming content.
Fortnite topping the list of most-played PS5 titles is both surprising and easy to believe. It is a surprise in that it’s not an exclusive, and can be played just about everywhere else along with the PS5. However, Fortnite’s ubiquitous nature and being free-to-play make its dominance on PlayStation 5 easy to believe.
Of the top ten games listed, only Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, MLB The Show 21, and Demon’s Souls are first party titles, and only Demon’s Souls is a PS5 exclusive. Other exclusive releases like Death Loop, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and Returnal are likely missing from the list due to being relatively more recent releases and being largely single-player games that won’t gobble up gameplay hours like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla or Destiny 2.
Fortnite standing tall above all other games on PlayStation 5 in terms of pure hours played does show just how dominant the battle royale mainstay still is, even as other battle royale titles try to dethrone it.
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