One year after the PlayStation 5 was launched, Sony Interactive takes stock – and promises further efforts with a view to PS5 availability.
Sony Interactive boss Jim Ryan has dealt with one Post on the official PlayStation blog for the one-year PS5 anniversary. The console was delivered in the USA and Japan on November 12, 2020 – one week later, on November 19 – Europe including Germany, Austria and Switzerland followed.
As of September 30, 2021, 13.4 million PS5 consoles had been shipped worldwide.
A lot happened in the first twelve months: Ryan points to successful exclusive titles such as Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart plus the acquisitions of studios such as Bluepoint Games (Demon’s Souls) or Housemarque (Returnal). More blockbusters will follow from spring 2022, including God of War Ragnarok, Gran Turimo 7 and Horizon 2: Forbidden West. According to Ryan, more than 25 PS5 games are in development at PlayStation Studios alone.
The Sony manager mentions other impressive figures: The PlayStation 5 players would have spent more than 4.6 billion game hours on the console up to and including September – arithmetically, this results in an average usage time of around 350 game hours per device.
Among the over 360 PlayStation 5 games available, some are particularly popular – the top 10 based on hours of play:
- Fortnite (Epic Games)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (Activision Blizzard)
- FIFA 21 (Electronic Arts)
- NBA 2K21 (Take-Two Interactive)
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Ubisoft)
- Destiny 2 (Activision Blizzard)
- MLB The Show 21 (Sony Interactive)
- Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Sony Interactive)
- Demon’s Souls (Sony Interactive)
- NBA 2K22 (Take-Two Interactive)
With the ecxeption of NBA 2K22 all titles have been on the market since autumn 2020 – more recent games are “ missing ” as a result. That also applies to FIFA 22, which was published on October 1, 2021 and was not included in the survey (period: November 2020 to September 2021). It is also noticeable that multiplayer titles predominate.
Jim Ryan thanks PlayStation customers explicitly for their patience: “We continue to see historical demand for the PlayStation 5 and we understand that the availability restrictions continue to be a source of frustration for many of our customers. Rest assured that we are really doing everything in our power to ship as many consoles as possible. The whole company works on it every single day and it remains my top priority. We thank you very much for your patience as we navigate through unprecedented global challenges. “
The purchase of a PlayStation 5 remains time-consuming and nerve-consuming, even for the one-year anniversary: Even large providers such as Amazon, MediaMarkt / Saturn, Otto or GameStop can only offer the console once or twice a month. The quotas are usually sold out within a few minutes. You can find an overview of PS5 supply sources in this post and in our PS5 ticker, which is fresh every working day.
