The PS5 is celebrating its fifth anniversary, and Sony has released a whole lot of statistics to celebrate–including the most-played multiplayer and single-player games on the console. Perhaps unsurprisingly, battle royale monolith Fortnite took out the top spot for multiplayer, while launch game Assassin’s Creed Valhalla still holds the lead in single-player titles.
Sony revealed that PS5 players have logged a cumulative total of 100 billion hours of gameplay, engaging with a library of over 7,500 published games. Of all those games, Sony revealed which came out on top when it came to playtime–after Fortnite, the most popular multiplayer titles on PS5 were Grand Theft Auto V in second place, with 2022’s Call of Duty Modern Warfare II beating five other PS5 COD titles to claim third place.
When it comes to single player games, the top spot goes to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla–one of the PS5’s major third-party launch titles that released with the console back in 2020. Coming in second for single-player is 2022’s God of War Ragnarok, a console-exclusive title for PlayStation, while the third most-played single-player game is 2023’s Hogwarts Legacy–the most recent release on the list.
The fifth anniversary blog reveals a few more interesting statistics about the PS5, including the fact that one in four PS5 users have enabled at least one of the console’s 20 accessibility features. The PS5 has featured more emphasis on accessibility than its predecessors, including the customizable Access Controller released in 2023.
Sony has also released an updated sales figure of 84.2 million total PS5 units sold–up from the 80 million figure revealed in Sony’s latest quarterly results. The latest sales figure moves the PS5 up to the ninth best-selling console of all time, nudging it just ahead of the Xbox 360–Xbox’s best-selling console. Despite sitting ahead of every generation of Xbox, the PS5 is still behind every other PlayStation console in total sales.
