Happy birthday, PS5!
It seems like a pretty quick year has passed since the first day gamers got their hands on the PS5, and I am deeply honored and humbled to celebrate this incredible first year with all of you.
So much has happened in just one year since the day we lit up landmarks and other iconic places around the world to mark the arrival of PS5. Amazing games like Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Returnal and Deathloop were released. SIE acquired the talented development studios Bluepoint Games, Firesprite, Housemarque, and Nixxes. We reveal our next-gen VR system for PS5. And most recently, we introduced new visuals and exciting updates for upcoming titles like 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. .
In fact, a busy year and we are just getting started with PS5. The imaginative game creators and publishing partners we work with have released more than 360 games on PS5. Additionally, there are currently more than 25 games in development for PS5 at PlayStation Studios.
Most importantly, the passionate support we’ve seen from you, our players, makes this past year really special for us. PS5 players have collectively played over 4.6 billion hours of gameplay on PS5 and streamed over 26 million hours of content. Here’s a look at the top ten PS5 games played during the first year of PS5, based on hours of play:
- 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 made PS5 the biggest console launch ever, and I really can’t thank you enough for your support and dedication last year.
I also want to thank everyone in the community for their patience. We continue to see historic demand for the PS5 and understand that inventory limitations continue to be a source of frustration for many of our customers. Rest assured that we are focused on doing everything in our power to ship as many units as possible, it is something we work on every day throughout the company and it remains my top priority. Once again, we appreciate your patience as we navigate through these unprecedented global challenges.
There will be a lot of great things to come for PS5 in the future, and I look forward to sharing more of these extraordinary moments with you. Thanks again for being a part of the PlayStation community and celebrating this milestone with us.
