Popular Post jord39912 Posted November 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 2, 2021 For most people I would imagine that not many care, but something I personally love are stats in games, and this is probably because of my OCD. So when I discovered that the total play time was displayed for games under your profile, I was genuinely so pleased. I find it interesting checking friends and other online players stats. However, this feature seems to work 30% of the time, and that's being generous. I don't know what triggers it to work or not, and it's been like this since the launch of the PS5. More often than not, I'll play a session on a game, come off, check another time and nothing was updated. I've even had it where I've played a game for the first time for a decent period, earned trophies, checked and it's not even included it as a game I've played until re-launching it. Just wondering if anyone who checks this information experiences similar issues? Again, I'm sure most people don't care at all about this feature so I'd rather not hear "who cares?". It just triggers me a bit. I'd rather it not be there at all than show false information. Steam has never once had this problem in my own experiences, so I just struggle to see how Sony chose to implement this and not have it working properly since its launch. 30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowxSakura Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 It's not accurate either, you'll have games with way more playtime or way less playtime than you've actually played. You'll also have games with 0 hours on them that you have the platinum in. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowSigmaX Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 I noticed this as well. Both Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal total playtime is completely wrong. 91 and 67 respectively. Persona 5 took 150+ and Royal-granted I skipped most of the dialogue only watching the new stuff added with Dr. Maruki and the added semester-was still 100+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jord39912 Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 5 minutes ago, SnowxSakura said: It's not accurate either, you'll have games with way more playtime or way less playtime than you've actually played. You'll also have games with 0 hours on them that you have the platinum in. Exactly. Surely it wouldn't be so difficult to fix or even address it. I know it's been commented on often on over sites. 2 minutes ago, ShadowSigmaX said: I noticed this as well. Both Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal total playtime is completely wrong. 91 and 67 respectively. Persona 5 took 150+ and Royal-granted I skipped most of the dialogue only watching the new stuff added with Dr. Maruki and the added semester-was still 100+ Yeah. Even more insulting when a game has a time tracker in it that's accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dangisuckatgamin Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Yeah it’s definitely delayed. And it counts for every minute on the application.. therefore a quick restroom/food break really could add several hours over time that you didn’t even play to your total hours (similar to steam) so it renders the stat almost useless sadly. Which as a fellow stats lover myself, it stinks they never put more stats up for us. Would love more details on how many people out of the total amount of Sony users have a trophy. I’d be in heaven haha. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozalia1 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 The common reason for discrepancies would be that when you first play a game the system has an issue logging those hours. This is how you might play several hours of something and then when you check it'll say you've played 0. Loading a game up to the main menu, closing it, and loading it back up should make sure that whatever time you play gets logged. If you don't want more time than you actually played logged then make sure to close the game if you feel you might be away for a significant period. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Yeah it's pretty inaccurate. For instance it says I played Spider-Man Remastered for 81 Hours, vs. the PS4 version for 69 Hours. Now, while it did take me longer in terms of number of days played to Plat the remaster as opposed to the PS4 version, I can safely say I played for far less time overall. Or it says I put 506 hours into the PS4 version of AC Valhalla...my save file is at 302 hours, how are there 204 hours unaccounted for? Whereas for Hitman 2 is says I've played for 119 hours...that seems accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jord39912 Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 28 minutes ago, Rozalia1 said: The common reason for discrepancies would be that when you first play a game the system has an issue logging those hours. This is how you might play several hours of something and then when you check it'll say you've played 0. Loading a game up to the main menu, closing it, and loading it back up should make sure that whatever time you play gets logged. If you don't want more time than you actually played logged then make sure to close the game if you feel you might be away for a significant period. Yeah, tends to be the only fix ☹️ I always close a game when I'm AFK. It would annoy me having more hours on something than I've actually invested ? 16 minutes ago, Viper said: Yeah it's pretty inaccurate. For instance it says I played Spider-Man Remastered for 81 Hours, vs. the PS4 version for 69 Hours. Now, while it did take me longer in terms of number of days played to Plat the remaster as opposed to the PS4 version, I can safely say I played for far less time overall. Or it says I put 506 hours into the PS4 version of AC Valhalla...my save file is at 302 hours, how are there 204 hours unaccounted for? Whereas for Hitman 2 is says I've played for 119 hours...that seems accurate. Blimey, I've never heard of it adding on time, it's even buggier than I thought ? I have a few games I know it's not added on time, but that's crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozalia1 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 26 minutes ago, Viper said: Yeah it's pretty inaccurate. For instance it says I played Spider-Man Remastered for 81 Hours, vs. the PS4 version for 69 Hours. Now, while it did take me longer in terms of number of days played to Plat the remaster as opposed to the PS4 version, I can safely say I played for far less time overall. Or it says I put 506 hours into the PS4 version of AC Valhalla...my save file is at 302 hours, how are there 204 hours unaccounted for? Whereas for Hitman 2 is says I've played for 119 hours...that seems accurate. It may be there were times you didn't close the game and it kept running in the background. Only thing I could see that would add significant hours with you unaware. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcioAP1 Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 4 hours ago, jord39912 said: Just wondering if anyone who checks this information experiences similar issues? Yes, I have this same problem from day one with Playstation 5. It's pretty annoying. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnichoj Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 On 11/2/2021 at 3:32 PM, Rozalia1 said: It may be there were times you didn't close the game and it kept running in the background. Only thing I could see that would add significant hours with you unaware. On top of that, it counts time in between when he loads his save, so like when sitting on the main press start screen or maybe when he presses pause while in-game it will freeze the in-game save file timer but not PS5 OS timer. For those noticing games that don't record time at all, that's on the devs. It's a feature that has to be programmed into the game much like trophy tracking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheInfinityCube Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 I checked my recently played games and noticed that it said I’ve played Elden Ring for 2 hours when I’ve played it for about 14 hours. I thought maybe it would just take time to update but now I’ve put about 30 hours into the game and it only changed to 3 hours on PlayStation. I also thought it might just be a problem with Elden Ring but I looked at all of my friends times it seems to be just fine. There’s been some difference between in game times and my time on PlayStation before but only by an hour or two. Any reason why this is and any way to fix it? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyCass Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 I find it doesnt track time when it doesnt update to the current game im playing on my profile. Example if i played nioh yesturday but elden ring today, sometimes on the list of games on my profile still says nioh was the last game i played even if im currently playing elden ring, it then starts tracking time again when i restart the game and get that showing as latest game played. Im talking about the games section, not trophy section of your profile page. Might be worth a check 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ephemera_5 Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 That is not a problem with Elden Ring as I I have the same issue with The Last of Us Part 2. According to "Time played" I spent 6 hours on the game, although I put more than 20 hours in the game. It is just a bug and there is no fix to this as far as I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quink666 Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Its is known to be extremely buggy. I have platted certain games in less than 5 minutes even though platinum took me 20 hours. Like my PS4 stack of Metro Exodus. It says i platted it in less than an hour. It seems that the tracking was only for my last session played. It never counted the time I spent getting 95% of the trophies. It’s totally unreliable unfortunately. 90% of the time shown seems to be accurate though. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post EDGES Posted March 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2022 (edited) yeah, unfortunately, due to the non online only nature of the PlayStation 4/5 OS, and the option to allow the consoles to collected limited vs full data, tracking time played is not an accurate feature on PlayStation consoles, the best way to know your time in a game is when the game itself is tracking the time, sometimes if you look at the information when pressing the option button on a savefile, it will show the time played in select games, that is 100% accurate Edit: there's also an issue of separate game skus, spliting the time played, you can play the digital version of a game and the disc version of a game at separate times, sometimes they are considered two different games.... also happens on different region skus Edited March 9, 2022 by THE ONE WHO KNOCKS 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saiyanbloodstyle Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 The hours played section on PS5 is quite the mess, i check my games 510, next day it's 415 games, some games not even on the list and it's all over the place. But i do have the beta system software, maybe contributing to it being messy and not accurate? I'm not too sure still. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeSound222 Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 (edited) Back in May, my first Resident Evil Village playthrough clocked in 7 hours 34 minutes but the hours played section was telling me I had played it for 12 hours. I didn't die or reload a save nearly enough times to rack up an extra 4 1/2 hours. Pretty sure my GOTG and Plague Tale hours are inaccurate too. I also don't have hours listed for Evolve, Godzilla, and Resident Evil Code: Veronica X. Is that because the first two are delisted games and the last one is a PS2 on PS4 title? Edited March 12, 2022 by SnakeSound222 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solid Snake Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Play time is quite inaccurate, in my experience games don't sync hours played well when it comes to playing two games at once on the same account. On team accounts, for example when one is played online and the other offline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mipsy Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 My original suspicions: - PS5 SKUs track much more accurately than PS4 SKUs - Games with online connectivity track more accurately than offline-only titles But my native-PS5 always-online Elden Ring shows *at least* 16 fewer hours played than my savefile tallies - and I've only the one savefile, thus far. I'm chalking it up to, as suggested above, limited data exchange w/ PSN. :\ Bummer. Was absolutely looking forward to this feature, ever since I first encountered it on...I believe, 3DS. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KR33P3R_KR4FT Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 This is super annoying, I'm currently playing through Horizon Forbidden West and it says on my profile I've played for 10 hours while pstimetracker says I've played for 20, how is a third party tracker calculating hours better than the official tracker?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZitMeatloaf Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 I noticed this for the first time with Immortals Fenyx Rising. The in-game timer says I've played for more than 65 hours, but my PS5 only shows 59 hours. And I haven't taken myself offline or made myself appear offline for any of that time. Not the biggest discrepancy in the world, but now I'm doubting the accuracy of my other games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunny Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 Has it always been like this? Such a bummer, this and the trophy tracking feature are the ones that actually made me want to upgrade, well there's no rush gonna wait till Christmas to see if Sony fixes it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visighost Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 Well, the year-end messages that Sony sends with your most played games etc. have always been completely off, so it's no real surprise the trend continues here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiceOnSundays Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 I find if you press down and click on the start game bit under the game it tracks the time. Whereas if you just click on the game tile to get into the game the time played will be off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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