Demon's Souls, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Among Most Played PS5 Games

If i could get a PS5 and i believe a lot more games will be sold if there are more PS5 in the hands of gamers instead of scalpers.

Demon Souls has only ever dropped to 52.49 digitally, and it’s been out a year now.

SURELY IT WILL BE ON BLACK FRIDAY

It's crazy that it has been a year already. Time flies.

Most played is not the same as max hours imo. Astro’s Playroom deserves some spotlight today both on Sony’s blog and here. It was a phenomenal included title.

Also Bugsnax.

Happy Birthday PS5!

I have a PS5 and haven't played any of those!!!

I had my nephew staying a few weeks ago. I have over 300 games on my PS5 yet he wanted me to download Fornite, I just don't get the appeal of that game at all. Nice to see Demon's Souls and Miles Morales on the list though!

@koffing sackboy was also some of the best couch Co op I've had in recent

@MightyDemon82 Kids play what other kids play. When I ask them what they like about Fortnite or Minecraft, they basically say because everyone else is playing it.

@naruball A rubbish reason but the truth. Saves me money in the long run as I've given up buying him great games to play.

@MightyDemon82 I too get this sentiment, rather amazing how it's a worldwide thing as well. My brother just straight up walks away when I'm playing anything but the ol regular fifa/fortnite/minecraft lol.

My most played, at 83 hours, is Yakuza: Like a Dragon after that, not sure what the order would be but by hours I know Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Resident Evil: Village are all up there. Guardians of the Galaxy is climbing its way up the list as well. Been an awesome first year for the console.

I haven't played any of them on my PS5. Not played them on any system. Surprised there aren't more PS exclusives on that list. Shows the majority of people who have one at the minute aren't that bother by exclusives.

I beat godfall last night and it's not a bad game at all I enjoyed it from start to finish. The centre tower mode is like god of war's muspelheim trials and there is a lot of replay value. If there is one underrated ps5 game so far it's godfall

@get2sammyb Not really its the annual game and will sell no mather what.

@get2sammyb Too bad the game is awful

@Flaming_Kaiser yeah, but this is in-game hours, not sales

It's not like there's a lot of choice...

@Zag_Man Still somewhat surprised with Miles Morales. Platinum'd in like 12 hours, after that I saw no reason to continue playing.

@NEStalgia Are these the proper video games I'm supposed to be playing? 😝

Demon's Souls aside that's a pretty sad list.

Miles Morales was soooo fun. I think it, in part, has to do with how familiar I am with Peter Parker as a character, that it was soooo refreshing to be a non-Peter Spider-Man.

@Voltan Thank you for correcting me but then its even less strange.

This is pretty much what we all knew. What the big sellers are are basically the things people that hang out on sites like Push Square don't even see as actual games. Which explains so much of Jim Ryan's behavior. His market is people who buy toothpaste, not people who love video games. They outnumber us and collectively throw more cash around than us, and like the Wii, he has his blue ocean target now. Even if it's not geriatrics like the Wii.

But what I don't understand is how Demon's Souls made that list? Souls isn't a series for everyone, or even most, and certainly not for the mass market casual gamer. It's confounding even to many of us seasoned gamers. How the heck did that make this list of mass market games? And it's the only no-super-casual-friendly game on the list. Not even Valhalla could make the list, but Demon's Souls did?! That's just weeird. I can only imagine it's the Youtubers running the game 24/7 since launch driving up the number lol

@rjejr No, please don't..... Except Demon's Souls. For my personal amusement, please become a tuber and play that

@NEStalgia check again number 5

@naruball Oh good! I somehow missed that. So the world is almost all right again.

I still can't comprehend how DS is in that list, like, at all. I don't mean because I'm not a Souls fan, I understand why the fans like it, but just.....like the old Sesame Street song, "one of these things just doesn't belong here."

Top Ten Movies for Kids:
Sonic the Hedgehog
A Bug's Life
Toy Story
The Lego Movie
Despicable Me
Fifty Shades of Gray
Over the Hedge
Kung Fu Panda
Shrek
How to Train Your Dragon

@NEStalgia I'm not even playing games for my own amusement, I'm not going to start playing them for yours. 😉

@NEStalgia I don't see anything out of the ordinary with your list, maybe Shrek because his love is a little too great. Shrek is love, Shrek is life. Everything else on that list are great action-adventure kids movies and Fifty Shades of Grey is a great educational film on the many shades of colors.

@Flaming_Kaiser Not sure if says the PS5 games library to date is lacking or current PS5 owners are big basketball fans when a 2 month old game has hit the top 10 most played.

@Spanky Exactly, just like Demon's Souls, you noticed I slipped in Shrek, which is really out of place in that list of otherwise easily identified kids movies!

As expected: the list of most played games is almost entirely multi platform games.

@NEStalgia Souls games might not be played by many, but those that play it, do so non-stop. They make their own challenges like beating the games with every possible class, naked runs and NG+99, etc.

@Enigk Sony doesnt really care about Europe the US gets the preference and whats big there with sports.

For me personally i have 4 games i really want to play but its to much effort to get one PS5. Sony is not really putting in any effort to get the consoles into the hands of customers instead of scalpers.

I want to play Pathless, Demon Souls, Rachet and Clank, Returnal and Kenna.

@NEStalgia Quality game with massive replayability and a beloved IP.

@Flaming_Kaiser Sony has massive reference to the EU sports market for FIFA, though.

True about souls, but it's crazy niche, unlike everything else in the list. @tharsman has it right I think about how the small group that does play plays relentlessly. It's really the only explanation.

@NEStalgia another thing I think we are blind to is that the difference in hours played between the top 2 and the bottom 2 in that list is very likely exponentially smaller.

Sorting aside, I would not be shocked if the bottom one in the list has 1% to 5% the hours of the top performer (almost certainly Fortnite.)

Edit:
In fact, if we assume the year over year increase in player base or NBA2K is minimal, and base on how long 2k21 has been out compared to 2k22, the last spot is likely way under 1% of the top 3, and that also makes me feel the list is indeed sorted by hours played.

@Tharsman That's a really good point. The fact that Miles, which doesn't even have a ton of replay value and is a short campaign, sits above souls, that puts a lot more perspective on it

@NEStalgia it also implies that the first 6 or 7 items in that list likely represent ridiculously large percentage of all PS5 game time. Would not be shocked if they represent roughly half the total game hours on PS5 during that first year.

@NEStalgia There where a lot of people asking for the game the hype was quite big for the remake.

@Flaming_Kaiser Hype was big among Soulsborne fans, which is a very passionate fanbase and a very vocal minority on the internet, but an almost insignificant blip in the total gaming marketplace. The existence of that game is purely fanservice to the (very) faithful. Good on Sony for it, though I don't see Jim's PS doing that sort of thing often in the future. It barely cracked 1.5M sales. That's a bad Wednesday for the top 5! Which is why it's a head scratcher that it's in this list at all. Those top few games have "current concurrent players" as a double digit exponent of DS's lifetime sales! Miles, barely above it, sold a whole lot more copies, but it's still slightly surprising it made the list since most players move on quickly once they've seen all there is to see. Not nearly as surprising as DS though.

@Tharsman Yeah, that's not at all a surprising thought, but it sure is a depressing one, that despite record sales of the hardware, most people are just buying it to play a shinier version of the same few big multiplats over and over and over again. I suppose it doesn't matter, no matter how huge that market is, it still represents a different market. Maybe that makes clearer what Shaun Layden meant recently when he said the market isn't growing, it's pretty much static. We laughed at him, pointing to the massive industry growth numbers, but maybe what he meant is that most of that growth is a whole different market focused on a few big online titles and doesn't represent any growth at all in the "core gaming" market, which is where he's centered, working with indies now.

We laugh at Todd selling Skyrim for the 50th time, but when you figure most play time on consoles seems to be all playing the same one game all the time for whatever player base is playing it.....why not? At least GTAV didn't make this list. Progress?

@NEStalgia "Yeah, that's not at all a surprising thought, but it sure is a depressing one, that despite record sales of the hardware, most people are just buying it to play a shinier version of the same few big multiplats over and over and over again."

I dont think that's sad, but that's because I dont think I'm sad
I got my PS5 primarily to play Final Fantasy XIV. To this date I have only played two games in it, the other being Astro Bot's tech demo/microgame/whateveryoucallit.

@Tharsman lol! I didn't expect that! Though I just got it to play PS4 games with stable frame rates and r&c...