As we all know, 2020 was a shit year for just about everyone… But you know which group didn’t mind so much? Gamers!
As the anti-social outcasts of society, we are used to spending a lot of time indoors not communicating with the outside world (with exception of the Uber Eats delivery guy/girl). So how much time did you spend gaming in 2020? Well, PlayStation has given us a way to find out. Using their game tracking technology that records how much you play, PlayStation has released their PlayStation Wrap Up website, which gives you your statistics for the year 2020. This site features a lot of sections, so I’m going to use my wrap-up to show you what is available to you.
Starting things off is the number of games that you have played in 2020. As you can see, my number comes in at a pitiful 8 games played throughout the whole of 2020… Which for some reason I think is completely weird and messed up as I’m sure I’ve played way more than that in 2020.
Next is the Top 3 games you would have played in 2020. This again I would contest since I know I played Resident Evil 2 & Resident Evil 3 a lot more than this in 2020. By this stage, I’m thinking it took only my PS5 playtime into account as I’m sure I spent more time on the PS4 before getting the PS5 when it was released. Also, what the fuck is Cyberpunk 2077 doing on there? Did I really waste 2 hours on this thing? I swear it felt longer than that.
Of course, we do need to promote Sony games in this thing. So here’s the first more general statistic that you will be presented with during your look back at 2020. It seems that Ghost of Tsushima did really well in making enemies fall to the ground in fear of your character with over 834 million NPCs brought to their knees in 2020.
207 hours of gameplay during 2020. It might sound like a lot, but I’ve seen people putting in more than 2000 hours in 2020. I guess when you split your time between PC, PlayStation, and Xbox games, not to mention the time I spend writing reviews and articles, 207 is an ok number.
Yep, this confirms it. I’m a single-player for life. It’s not that I don’t try to give online modes a try, but I mostly keep those experiences to PC games where they belong. I’ve never been a fan of playing console games online as things are either too slow to respond, or they just aren’t all that fun, to begin with. Also, it’s hard to play VR games when you don’t have a VR headset to play those types of games with. However, if PlayStation wants to send me one so we can do more PlayStation VR game reviews… hint hint.
200 million hours of The Last of Us Part 2 played!? Well, I guess 99% would have been other media outlets playing the game to create articles about how diverse and controversial the game was. Since I still see a huge number of game boxes on shelves at retailers all over the place, I highly doubt actual people were playing this game.
Days played in 2020 = 0!? Ummm… HOW!? To even be able to use this wrap-up site you need to have actually played games on your PlayStation consoles and I know I played games on my PlayStation consoles since I’m doing this wrap-up. I think there was an error in the PlayStation database or something.
See! This proves me right. If my days played equals zero, then how are there statistics around which days I played video games? I’m actually surprised that Thursday and Saturdays are my highest days for play since I usually have other things going on, especially in the evenings when I’m spending time watching TV shows or Movies with the Misses.
I know people love these achievement/trophy systems that have become common in video games these days, but I never really saw much interest in these types of things because the only achievement I wanted in a video game was to finish it and have a good time doing it. I’m not one of those people who grew up with little awards being handed to me for doing the most normal and basic things all the time, so I don’t go trophy hunting like a lot of gamers do.
And here is your proof. Most of my trophies that I’ve been awarded in 2020 are bronze level, meaning the most basic shit you do in the game, I’ve done it. With those other trophies, I think the only ones that I actively chased were the under 2-hour S-Rank playthroughs of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3. Outside of those, anything else I’ve gained has come from finishing a game by doing the most basic of playthroughs.
The final general statistic from PlayStation comes in the form of home runs hit in MLB: The Show 20. 161 million dingers… notbad.jpg
Yes, I was one of those lucky people who had received a PlayStation 5 at launch and currently have it sitting in my lounge room where the Misses has taken it over to use to watch Disney+, Netflix, and YouTube. I have about 30 games downloaded on both the internal and external storage drives for the console, but I never get a chance to play them. Yet PlayStation makes a push to inform me that I was lucky to buy an AUD$750 streaming media machine.
Unsurprisingly, since this was my Game of The Year for 2020, seeing Marvels Spider-Man: Miles Morales as my most played PlayStation 5 game is pretty cool. Also seeing that I’ve played 17 hours of games on the console isn’t too bad either. What does surprise me though is the 54 trophies gained on the PlayStation 5. I’m not too sure if that’s counting PlayStation 4 games in that total or just PlayStation 5 games. There is no breakdown for this, nor is there any explanation.
The final statistic comes from the very small, but heavily promoted at this point, PlayStation Plus section. I downloaded 24 games in 2020, meaning I got every game that was offered through the service that year. This section also noticed the only time I’ve played online via the PlayStation Network in 2020 was that afternoon playing Fall Guys with Matt and Will (and I think my old podcasting mate Drew). but again, I think the time is off since the sessions I played that game online lasted a lot longer than an hour.
So what do you get for allowing PlayStation to track and show you all your gameplay data from 2020? A PlayStation 4 theme for the UI.
If you want to view your own statistics from PlayStation for 2020, you can head over to the PlayStation Wrap-Up website, log in with your PlayStation username and password, and see how you did in 2020. If you want to share with the world, then you can use the #PlayStationWrapUp tag on Twitter, then cry when you realize that your stats aren’t as good as someone with no life, or someone in Asia who spends more time on COD than they did on Starcraft.
