To coincide with the new year, Sony has made some key stats available to PlayStation 4 players for 2019 in the form of the “PlayStation 2019 Wrap-Up”, which you can access via their website (PlayStation US link) or an email.
As I am a sucker for brands giving me back my data, hence why I always jump on the Spotify Wrapped each year, I eagerly looked up my statistics. I soon wished I hadn’t as it filled me with a distinct sense of regret and a dashing of shame.
I felt like my PS4 usage dropped off a little last year, owing to my PS4 Pro radically overheating when playing downloaded games and that I am starting to get more into PC, wrist sprains be damned. I apparently went in hard for the first six months of 2019, racking up the numbers you see below.
Over 400 hours in Fortnite. 16 days of the year getting bodied by crazed teenagers. I don’t understand. I just don’t understand. How did this happen? Why did nobody stop me? Why don’t I remember any of it?
My spare time is like goldust, so to spend so much of it playing a game that I am 1) terrible at and 2) a little too old to be playing left me feeling like I had wasted a lot of it. Weirder still, I don’t remember even enjoying much of my time with Fortnite last year, just that I had to crawl my way to 100 solo wins so I could call it a day. I resolved to play less Fortnite at the start of 2019 and focus more on single-player games that I may have missed, yet 400 hours, countless dabs, and plenty of humiliation later, I apparently failed.
200 hours of Apex is no mean feat either, though I am pretty certain that was mostly concentrated over a period of three weeks after launch. Apex was apparently the video game equivalent of poppers to me in 2019: a very quick rush but then total ennui.
A nice suprise was to see Days Gone pop up in my top three. It’s not a perfect game, but it’s certainly a lot better than many give it credit for. I think about a third of that playtime is me trying and failing to clear the sawmill horde before I unlocked the best weapons, because I am nothing if not a stubborn arsehole — proven by me playing Fortnite in the hopes of getting good but definitely, definitely not managing to.
Here’s my total numbers for the year; I spent nearly half of my time on Fortnite, which hasn’t even been installed on my PS4 for about five months, making the figures even worse.
I would be interested to see how this same wrap-up looks at the start of 2021. Minus The Last of Us: Part II and Ghost of Tsushima, I see this being a year when I quietly phase the PS4 out ahead of the launch of the PlayStation 5.
To anyone who knows me, if you see me playing Fortnite at any point this year, please stage an intervention. I need it.
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