PS5 Player Counts for Popular Games May Soon Be Public as Rumors Swirl That Sony Is Testing a New Feature
The beta widget includes trending and top-10 views and lists weekly player counts for games such as Fortnite, Minecraft and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.
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PS5 is testing a new feature that will easily backfire in a big way
PlayStation is taking cues from Steam and testing a new feature that will let players see player counts for PS5 games every week. As that statistic drives toxic gaming discourse, and discoverability on the PlayStation Store is already rough, this feature could do more harm than good.
PS5 Player Counts for Popular Games May Soon Be Public as Rumors Swirl That Sony Is Testing a New Feature
Sony has seemingly started testing a new PlayStation 5 feature that allows users to see player counts for games like Call of Duty, Battlefield 6, Minecraft, and more.Rumors that the company could soon roll out a new approach to player data began today after YouTuber Mystic shared footage of a new widget with two tracking options: one for trending titles and one for top 10 games. The former seems to track surges in gameplay hours for specific tit…
Why is Sony testing public PS5 player counts?
Sony begins testing public PS5 player counts Sony is reportedly rolling out a new beta feature on PlayStation 5 that surfaces how many people are playing specific games. The feature is being described as similar to the Steam “charts” experience, but for PS5 titles. In the coverage, the feature is…
With the arrival of Asha Sharma at the head of the Xbox brand, we feel that a new dynamic is being created on the Microsoft side. An excellent thing, which could also benefit PlayStation players as Sony often needed to be stimulated by the competition to move things forward on its side. This is probably not much, but the YouTuber Mystic realized that a new card had appeared by browsing the interface of their PlayStation 5. Indeed, it is now poss…
Sony Rolls Out Public PlayStation 5 Player Count Beta Widget
One of the things that makes Steam unique as a platform is the APIs that Valve makes available to players and developers that allow us to see public player count data via sites like Steam Charts and SteamDB. According to recent reports by Mystic on YouTube, Sony is testing a new Community Activity widget in the PlayStation Welcome Hub that will show the top 10 most popular games for the week in question and a "Trending Now" category to show tren…
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