There are a bunch of unofficial websites providing features that, frankly, Sony should as a standard. The likes of PSN Profiles, for example, offer in-depth Trophy tracking, while this new website will document your PlayStation 4 play time. Getting set up with PS Timetracker is a little convoluted, as you’ll need to send a dedicated account a friend request.
Once the bot has accepted you, though, your play time will be tracked. It’s worth mentioning that you’ll need to be appearing online in order for this to work, so any games you play while hiding your status won’t be tracked. The website divides your data up between number of sessions and overall play time, and you can view daily and monthly breakdowns.
The site is also keeping tabs on everyone’s cumulative sessions, and you can view the most popular titles in July so far through here. Unsurprisingly, the community has pushed The Last of Us: Part II straight to the summit, although evergreens like Grand Theft Auto V and Fortnite aren't far behind.
We’re a little concerned how scalable this solution is; the website’s currently only tracking around 2,000 players, after all. Nevertheless, right now this appears to be flawlessly providing a valuable service that we’ve been eager for Sony to add for quite some time now – give it a go and let us know what you think in the comments section below.
[source ps-timetracker.com]
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Cool but I'm always offline in my status cause I don't want anyone to bother me. Also, Sony wake up please, this should be standard with the console.
@AFCC Yeah it's a little bit embarrassing that hobbyist sites like this are doing a better job.
Cool! Now people can show off their pretend play time (because let's face it, people will just leave games running to pad their times to feel superior to others because people suck.)
@spoonard Not sure why anyone would do that. For me this is just for personal interest!
Ive had them as a friend or whatever for a few months now, it's pretty cool.
Great find! Hopefully something that will be integrated into the PS5, as I believe it is something that team X currently do.
Yeah this should of been baked into the PS4, and definitely in the PS5. The Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS both had activity logs that broke down this information really well (Switch is nowhere near as good).
@spoonard Unless someone was trophy hunting (whilst not hard, Tales of Vesperia comes to mind), why would anyone do that intentiomally? I will admit there have been one or two ocassions where I have fallen asleep playing games but normally the console will shut itself down after a period of time so I don't see that massively skewing the play time.
Nice, probably check this out later 😊
There was a site that tracked your time on PS3. They grabbed the info from PSN. Sony blocked them from the information. It was like PSNProfiles.com they track just your trophies.
@get2sammyb its pretty obvious really but im guessing it only tracks from the time added and not previously. Would be interested to know total play time since owning a ps4.
@Kidfunkadelic83 Yeah only from the moment you sign up.
Keep getting the message site can't be reached
I think its interesting to learn about the little known features each console has. I didnt know the other Consoles tracked your playtime like this. Then again I didnt know Xbox deletes saved gameplay videos automatically either.
Given that Sony has been giving us the yearly Personal PS4 stars I hope that means PS5 will have this integrated in the Menus.
Thanks for the tip! Being a bit bonkers about stats I'll give this a go.
I wish Sony implemented this back when the PS4 started. I always get a chuckle out of seeing all of the hours I put into stuff over on Steam.
Great for parents to monitor PS4 time of their children.
TrueTrophies for PSN and True Achievements for Xbox. All features that could and should be standard on the consoles. Trophies could be so much more, friend on Xbox said he would love the equivalent of a Platinum Trophy. Fingers crossed the PS5 gets a new polish to its interface
Haha, come the end of this year, I'm probably going to have logged upwards of 1000hrs (probably way more) playing ESO. Can't believe I only discovered how great it was at the end of last year...thanks to one of Push Square's lists iirc My trophy list for 2020 is probably going to look pretty pathetic compared to last year though! ...always pleased when Sony adds new features btw; still waiting for a streamlined wishlist function on digital store though.
I'm a little scared to do this. Seeing my playtime will probably depress me. I could have done so much more with my free time 😂
So dumb this is not a standard feature of PS4... I guess it will never come to PS4 at this point of the console lifetime.
I have no interest in this features. I know that I play on my ps4 for 4 hours and 55 minutes every week. I don't need to know any more than that.
@spoonard kind of like how people buy the latest games at midnight on launch and rush through them as fast as possible to have some weird bragging rights
Offline gamer here ,when im not working I'm gaming. a solid 8 or more hours im happy been playing since i was a kid. Im sure my games are being tracked anyway i hope so! Playing through the mass effect trilogy 2 times this year do far , i want a re-release lol
@Deadlyblack my favorite is seeing someone on Steam have 2500hrs in some game and giving it a negative review. Haha
Blows my mind how many hours some people are able to dedicate to one game.
If I get 70hrs out of a game it’s usually at the least a 7.5/8.
@CaptainRimjaw like if you sum up your hourly game time and multiply it by minimum wage...
Depressing how rich I would’ve been haha
@Crowley22g
It's Gonna Be.
Minimalistic Ui /
Different system sound ( no more bling bling)
@BLOB I loved the change from PS3 to PS4. A good UI design can still be feature rich. I'd like to see a consistent search interface, like when you want to filter for free tracks on Rockband 4. One way you can the other you get a full list with no options.
really helpful thanks
@get2sammyb and the thing is Sony has so many updates to firmware, even the PSN ID is changable now...and this doesn't exist xD it's weird
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