PS5 has play time counter (including how long you played old PS4 games)

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PS5 Tells You How Long You've Played Games--Including Previous PS4 Play Time

You can finally show off how many hours you've spent playing your favorite games.

www.gamespot.com

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.

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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.

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[dallow_bg]

Retroactive timers? Awesome!

 

[ghostcrew]

omg, historical play time counter is amazing. Haha!

 

[Bunzy]

Let's goooooooooo

 

[Wil348]

Megaton!

 

[Lobster Roll]

I'm taking my playtime on Persona 5 Royal to the grave, thank you very much.

 

[Deleted member 679]

GOD IS REAL

 

[Desmond]

Can't wait to see how long I put in to Fallout 76, probably will be my highest lol

 

[trajon]

Look forward to finding out my most shameful playtimes lol

 

[GrimGrinningGuy]

Oh yes

 

[matrix-cat]

Console of the Generation. It's all over.

 

[Namaste]

I love this!

 

[Tyaren]

Godsend!

 

[Kalor]

Good they finally exposed that data. And that it's retroactive since they stored it anyway

 

[DeathyG]

Just saw this on Greg Miller's walkthrough. Sweet!

 

[Madao]

oohh shit. one of the reasons i bought Switch versions over PS4 versions is gone.

 

[Vashetti]

Retroactive timers? Awesome!

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It's not retroactive, they've always been tracking this, hence the occasional emails you get saying "you've spent X time in _____!", they just never let the end user see the times on the device itself.

 

[crimilde]

Finally. Cool stuff.

 

[Faiyaz]

YES! Really missed it on the 3DS-->Switch transition (I know Switch has it, just nowhere near as in-depth as the 3DS activity log.)

 

[Chaystic]

It works for old PS4 games too? OMG YESSSS this was my most wanted feature lol.

 

[Camells]

OMG Generational Hall of Shame

 

[Aeroucn]

YESSSS they finally did it

 

[Deleted member 923]

I don't want to know how many hours I clocked into Rocket League, nooooooooooooooooooo

 

[Xadra]

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.

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Good.

 

[Vashetti]

It works for old PS4 games too? OMG YESSSS this was my most wanted feature lol.

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They've always been tracking this data, they've just never let you see it until now.

 

[NLCPRESIDENT]

Woooooow! Great feature!

 

[Adookah]

O M G


YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS

 

[FHIZ]

This is honestly a megaton. I love stats like this, lol.

 

[Ferdie]

Finally, great news.

 

[Deleted member 12555]

Why yes, I do like the feeling of being embarrassed, thank you very much!

 

[Chasing]

Looooong overdue for the console.

 

[Megapighead]

YES this is my most requested feature

 

[Kenzo]

YEEEESSSS!!!

 

[R dott B]

Noice

 

[MikePT]

Yes please!

 

[Digital Savior]

It's so simple. Why hasn't it been here all along?

 

[JCal]

Oh. I need there to be a way to turn that off. For some games, I really don't want to know.

 

[Madrugador]

Yes!!!!!!!!

My most requested feature. Finally!!!

 

[Yasai]

I wonder if they are able to give you your PS4 play times even when you had opted out of sharing your user data while playing on the PS4.

 

[Toumari]

Is there any screenshots of how it looks?

 

[BasilZero]

Finally. About damn time.

 

[BigTime_2018]

This is awesome. It's a small feature, but it goes a long way.

 

[Man Called Aerodynamics]

Very cool.

 

[shaneo632]

So does it count actual minutes or just increments of 5-10?

 

[Bishop89]

Retroactive timers? Awesome!

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Holy shit.
I don't want to know how long I've played rocket league for..

 

[Megamind.]

Megaton. I love this feature

 

[sibarraz]

This is a legit feature that would make me want a PS5

 

[Birdito]

That's great. Would also be something handy to put in the fancy new app, too.

 

[Jawbreaker]

Hell yes! This is fucking awesome.

 

[gadwin]

Surprising and amazing.