PS5 Tells You How Long You've Played Games

[Ghost]

Including Previous PS4 Play Time -

 

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Among the many changes and improvements you'll find in the PlayStation 5's new user interface is an enhanced profile page. Perhaps most notably, this includes a list of your played games along with details on when you last played them and how many hours you've spent with each one.

 

The feature works not unlike the Nintendo Switch's equivalent, but this appears to be better in a few ways. For starters, you don't need to wait a period of time before this play time estimate becomes available. It's also a bit more precise with the numbers it shows, as it doesn't round those numbers in the same way that Switch does.

 

What's most exciting is that these play times don't just start counting once you've gotten your new PS5 plugged in. Your profile also showcases the time you've spent playing on PS4, which means all those hours you sunk into Overwatch, The Witcher III, Rez Infinite, Destiny 2, or your game of choice will be represented here.

 

This won't impact your play experience in the same way that the new Activities feature or the DualSense controller will, but these small touches are nonetheless a fun part of the transition to a new console generation. For much more on what to expect, check out our PS5 review.

GameSpot

Edited November 6, 2020 by Ghost

[flamedbeacon91]

yay finally something i've wanted on Playstation forever LOL prob won't work with playstation now(PS3) but this is awesome

[EIdain]

Here's a screenshot of it from Greg Miller's UI walkthrough. 

Edited November 6, 2020 by EIdain

[djb5f]

This is welcomed.

 

Would this count time spent in one of the menus for example without actually playing the game?  Or when the game is paused.

 

I imagine so but curious as sometimes I boot a game up but get distracted by something on TV only to come back to it an hour later.

 

 

Edited November 6, 2020 by djb5f

[MichMasteR]

14 minutes ago, EIdain said:

Here's a screenshot of it from Greg Miller's UI walkthrough. 

 

The accolade thing is exactly as Overwatch's endorsement system, doesn't mean shit but the idea is cool

[MandA60VISE]

It's weird how the article mentions Rez Infinite among the the multiplayer games and the long RPG as something that would have lots of hours.

[Lordidude]

Awesome.

 

Now not only will my parents tell me that I spent too much time playing video games.

My very console will do it herself.

[deeps_rj]

A third party site added this feature recently, it's surprisingly accurate. idk if I can mention other sites here tho

[HusKy]

50 minutes ago, djb5f said:

This is welcomed.

 

Would this count time spent in one of the menus for example without actually playing the game?  Or when the game is paused.

 

I imagine so but curious as sometimes I boot a game up but get distracted by something on TV only to come back to it an hour later.

 

 

 

I'm pretty sure it just counts running time of a game/app when visible on screen. That means, when you pause a game, the timer won't stop.

[Cerber108]

Holy shit, nice, I was looking for such feature. This fan-made counting thingy is good, but I think it counts time even if you are in console menu while game is running.

Edited November 6, 2020 by Cerber108

[Undead Wolf]

Glad to see we finally have access to this stat. No reason we couldn't have had this feature on PS4 as well since they were clearly tracking time played in PS4 games, but whatever. This will be nice to have going forward.

[TheNastyChocobos]

i wonder if it counts the hours you play while offline or does it need to be connected to the servers to track

[ShadowReplicant]

I wonder if you have to allow Sony to collect Service Data and Additional Data for this to work, because I turned that shit off a long time ago. I wasn't even included in their 2019 Wrap-Up.

[Cerber108]

6 hours ago, ShadowReplicant said:

I wonder if you have to allow Sony to collect Service Data and Additional Data for this to work, because I turned that shit off a long time ago. I wasn't even included in their 2019 Wrap-Up.

In fact, the reason You weren't included was because You turned that shit off.

[ShadowReplicant]

5 hours ago, Cerber108 said:

In fact, the reason You weren't included was because You turned that shit off.

 

Thanks, Captain Obvious. I get that, but I'm wondering if this new feature is tied to Service/Additional Data collection as well.

[Voland44]

question is, would psnprofiles track this too? they track trophies after all

[Sn1per666999]

On 11/6/2020 at 9:15 AM, deeps_rj said:

A third party site added this feature recently, it's surprisingly accurate. idk if I can mention other sites here tho

If it's the site I'm thinking of it was horribly inaccurate on a few of my games. It put me at 11 hours for Skyrim VR when my save file is sitting at 41 hours. It's also off by 100 hours for FF12.

Edited November 11, 2020 by Sn1per666999