Thank you for supporting PS5’s amazing journey during this first year.
Happy birthday, PS5!
A year seems to have flown by rather quickly since the first day that gamers were able to get their hands on PS5 — and I am deeply honored and humbled to celebrate this amazing first year with all of you.
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 PS5. 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.
A busy year indeed, and we are just getting started with PS5. The imaginative game creators and publishing partners we work with have launched 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 truly special for us. PS5 gamers have collectively played more than 4.6 billion hours of gameplay on PS5 and broadcast more than 26 million hours of content. Here is a look at the top ten PS5 games played during PS5’s first year, based on gameplay hours:
- 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.
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.
There’s plenty of great things to come for PS5 in the future, and I look forward to sharing more of these extraordinary moments with you. Thank you again for being part of the PlayStation community and celebrating this milestone with us.
All data between November 12, 2020 – September 30, 2021
🎉 Congratulations PlayStation 🎉 And happy gaming 🥳
Happy Birthday PS5!! Great 1st Year
Happpy Year One Ps5
I got my PS5 ( physical edition of course ) just 5 days before it’s official birthday. It was a long wait, but I’m a man of patience, so I wasn’t worried about the duration. The scalpers were all over this bad boy, and for a good reason,too. Can’t say I admire their ways though. A lot of people have been scammed out of a PS5 via postal delivery, or in worst cases, stolen. Fortunately, I was one of the lucky ones, but mine was nearly $1K in price. ( due to the scalpers ) Been hyped for this console ever since it was revealed at the 2020 PlayStation Convention, but to see it in person…..magnificent. Honestly, my only gripes with the PS5 are as follows: no visible internet browser on the home screen ( similar to PS3 & PS4 ) & no option for custom wallpapers. ( again similar to PS3 & PS4 ) All in all, I’m looking to create some fond memories with this behemoth of a console. ( seriously, this thing got some weight on it XD ) Really looking forward to future titles, such as Black Myth Wukong, Forspoken, Project EvE, Final Fantasy XVI, God of War: Ragnarok, and many others. I am honored to share this moment, even if it was only 5 days.
Since the long waiting lines and scalpers (I refuse to pay $1K to a scalper for a “used” game machine that is out-of-warrenty). I’ve given up trying for a PS5. Period. My PS4 Pro is faster than my reaction time anyway. 4K UHDTV up-scales in any case with super “refresh time” game modes.
Perhaps it would help if Sony Direct sold single-units only then multi-buyer goes to the end of the line…but sales are sales, I guess, and customers do not really matter anymore.
From some of the posts here, it sounds like the new Sony Playstation chiefs are killing off the machine with false or misleading forecasts.
I didn’t pay it from a Scalper. Walmart just upped the prices. My PS5 was new.