The PS5 is celebrating its fifth anniversary, and Sony has launched an entire lot of statistics to celebrate–including the most-played multiplayer and single-player video games on the console. Maybe unsurprisingly, battle royale monolith Fortnite took out the highest spot for multiplayer, whereas launch recreation Murderer’s Creed Valhalla nonetheless holds the lead in single-player titles.
Sony revealed that PS5 gamers have logged a cumulative complete of 100 billion hours of gameplay, partaking with a library of over 7,500 revealed video games. Of all these video games, Sony revealed which got here out on high when it got here to playtime–after Fortnite, the most well-liked multiplayer titles on PS5 have been Grand Theft Auto V in second place, with 2022’s Name of Obligation Trendy Warfare II beating 5 different PS5 COD titles to say third place.
On the subject of single participant video games, the highest spot goes to Murderer’s Creed Valhalla–one of the PS5’s main third-party launch titles that launched with the console again in 2020. Coming in second for single-player is 2022’s God of Battle Ragnarok, a console-exclusive title for PlayStation, whereas the third most-played single-player recreation is 2023’s Hogwarts Legacy–the most up-to-date launch on the checklist.
The fifth anniversary weblog reveals a number of extra attention-grabbing statistics concerning the PS5, together with the truth that one in 4 PS5 customers have enabled a minimum of {one of the} console’s 20 accessibility options. The PS5 has featured extra emphasis on accessibility than its predecessors, together with the customizable Entry Controller launched in 2023.
Sony has additionally launched an up to date gross sales determine of 84.2 million complete PS5 models sold–up from the 80 million determine revealed in Sony’s newest quarterly outcomes. The newest gross sales determine strikes the PS5 as much as the ninth best-selling console of all time, nudging it just ahead of the Xbox 360–Xbox’s best-selling console. Regardless of sitting forward of each era of Xbox, the PS5 continues to be behind each different PlayStation console in complete gross sales.