Sony Celebrates PlayStation 5 Anniversary, Reveals Top Played Games In Its First Year

Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan posted on the PlayStation Blog in honor of the 1st anniversary of PlayStation 5’s launch.

PS5 consoles felt hard to come by for the first year.The current gen devices were used by gamers for a long time. Ryan boasted that PS5 gamers collectively have played over 4.6 Billion hours of gaming on PS5 and broadcast nearly 26 MILLION hours of content. No doubt there’s been an impressive amount DualSense controller recharges as well. Ryan listed the top ten PS5 games that were played the most over the past 12 months. Some are less surprising, but a few launch titles managed to stick on the list despite some more popular games. 

• Fortnite
• Black Ops Cold War – Call of Duty
• 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

It’s great to see Miles Morales and Demons’ Souls hanging with the heaviest time-sinks like Fortnite and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, especially since they’re day one releases with (mostly) single-player campaigns. 

Jim Ryan also takes a moment to highlight other big Sony exclusive games like Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Returnal, and Deathloop, as well as recent studio acquisitions of Bluepoint Games, Firesprite, Housemarque, and Nixxes. The future is in sight, as megatons of new games are coming up next year, including Horizon: Forbidden West and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Playstation Studios currently has 25 games in development for PlayStation 5

Despite the availability woes facing PlayStation 5, it’s had quite the first year with plenty of current and upcoming reasons to make the upgrade. That is if you’re lucky enough to find one in the coming months. 

Which was your favorite game on PS5 in 2014? Please leave your comments in the section below.