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.
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my autistic son loves his play station wish I could get a ps5 for him
A whole year later, I am still trying to get one for my son. Wish me luck in finding one this Christmas.
I wish i get my hands on ps5
I’m a playstation fan couldn’t by a ps1 but I did play whit a friend, but i bought the first ps2, then the thing ps2 and put it in my car lol was a lots of fun .
First ps3 like $700 i was crazy lol but bought it.. ps4 of course, has been a long adventure.
just got my ps5 by the sony web page. whaooo nice graphics and speed.
they contacted me , and they set up the day and time for a group of people to be able to buy it .
I just wish they would have done that from the beginning to all the loyal playstation customers.
So if you don’t have a ps5 and you what one make sure to look at your playstation email .
I wish you good luck.
So, year one, still scalper city, and the ps vita store is not updated with the games i have bought. should be in the download list, but no…
Seems to me that all my digital content is in jeapordy now.
Is the PS5 digital edition such a smart move now? With the way the Vita has been treated, I think not. better get the discs, because you never know when the plug goes – sure might be 10 years down the line, but it WILL go :-(
Angry vita owner
I think you are correct. The PS5 digital edition is absolutely the wrong way to go. Sony has not proven itself a reliable digital partner by ending the PS3s digital capacity and the Vita.
Microsoft still supports the Xbox 360 Online, and sees no reason to stop anytime soon. If I had to go digital only I would go with a Microsoft console, as their backward compatibility and digital support is legendary.
I can play Geometry Wars, a game I bought on Xbox 360 at launch on a Series X.