Fortnite and Black Ops Cold War are the Most Played PS5 Games - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 11 November 2021 / 3,833 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan in a PlayStation Blog post celebrated the one year anniversary of the launch of the PlayStation 5.
"So much has happened in just one year from the day we lit up landmarks and other iconic places all over the world to mark the arrival of PS5m," said Ryan.
"Incredible games such as Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Returnal, and Deathloop launched. SIE acquired the talented development studios Bluepoint Games, Firesprite, Housemarque, and Nixxes. We revealed our next-generation VR system for PS5.
"And most recently, we’ve unveiled new footage and exciting updates for upcoming titles such as God of War Ragnarok, Gran Turismo 7, and Horizon Forbidden West all from PlayStation Studios, and announced Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic – Remake during our September showcase."
Ryan revealed more than 360 games have released on the PS5 and over 25 games are currently in development for the console at PlayStation studios.
He also revealed the top 10 most played games on the PS5 in its first year. Fortnite was the most played game on the console, followed by Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
MLB The Show 21 is the most played first-party game and the overall seventh most played game on the PS5. This was followed by Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Demon's Souls in eighth and ninth places.
"PS5 gamers have collectively played more than 4.6 billion hours of gameplay on PS5 and broadcast more than 26 million hours of content," said Ryan.
Here are the top 10 most played PS5 games:
- 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
"You’ve made PS5 the biggest console launch in history, and I truly can’t thank you enough for your support and dedication this past year," he added.
"I also want to thank everyone in the community for your patience. We continue to see historic demand for PS5 and we understand the inventory constraints remain a source of frustration for many of our customers. Rest assured that we are laser-focused on doing everything in our power to ship as many units as possible, it’s something we work on every day across the company and remains my top priority. Again, we appreciate your patience as we navigate through these unprecedented global challenges."
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Call of Duty games have been best sellers on Playstation since PS3, and Fortnite is not only a cultural phenomenon for youngsters at this point, but a F2P game where anyone can download and play it for no cost. This information isn't all that surprising.
What IS surprising is Demon Souls at number 9 given the sales in comparison to the other titles on the list. This tells me that the people that are playing Demon Souls are REALLY playing Demon Souls and have amassed countless hours.
Gross
Not surprising, its the usual style of games dominating the list.
I'm a little surprised actually. I know fortnite is free, but I thought it kind of fell off a bit. Guess not.
Can't believe fortnite is still so popular. Never understood it.
And free.
spend £450 to play Fortnite no thanks.. its mostly school kids that play it i cant understand why people spend so much money on it
Only filthy casuals play fortnite,
Happy that demons made top 10 wow
You mean most played online? I doubt those are the most played games on ps5. Anyways that's good news, it means sony is focusing on single player experiences such as returnal, demon souls, spiderman etc and that's excellent in my books. A reason why I switched from xbox one X to ps5 this generation was mostly that, the single player games, microsoft was focusing too much on online gaming, and I don't do online, ever.
Most played in terms of hours. Considering some people play COD and Fortnite for hours every night it's not surprising. Multiplayer games will always dominate the list because people don't play single-player games for hundreds of hours, they finish them and move on.
Surprised Ratchet & Clank didn't make the cut considering Miles Morales isn't that long of a game. I haven't been able to find a PS5 to play the games yet, but I'm guessing MM has more replayability.
Not surprising most of the of the list are live service games. Although I am surprised Destiny 2 is up so high for how many I've heard say "dead game" lol, but D2 is a second job at this point and is indeed an insane time investment. I had to just cold turkey quit.
MM had the whole year for players to play it, Ratchet came out 5 months ago.
Oh yeah, duh lol
Well Miles Morales has also sold well over double Ratchet, so even if Miles Morales players play less hours it'll still be higher on the list. It'll be total playtime of all players combined, not average playtime.
In terms of main story Ratchet is longer, in terms of 100% completion both games are listed as 17.5 hours by howlongtobeat.com
This list is the Xbox One reveal becoming a reality. MS was ahead of its time
My most played game on ps5 is Resogun, most addicting game ever. And I still have a backlog of games on PS5 to finish such as Ratchet, Returnal, Demon souls, Yakuza like a dragon, Death Stranding, Ghost of tsushima, Resident evil 8, Assassins creed valhala and more. I just cant seem to leave resogun alone, I always want to better my scores and weekly challenges
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