Sony could soon make one of the most interesting moves for the PlayStation community in recent years. According to new information that has emerged during the beta testing of the new Welcome Hub, users could finally get publicly visible gameplay numbers for games, similar to what Steam has been offering for years.
The new functionality is reportedly set to display the most played PlayStation 5 titles, as well as the currently most popular games within the PlayStation ecosystem. Although Sony has not yet officially detailed the entire system, early previews from the beta version suggest that players will be able to track which games are currently the most popular among PlayStation 5 users.
This move could significantly change the way the PlayStation community tracks the success of games. The number of concurrent players on Steam has long served as one of the main indicators of the popularity of PC titles, and the gaming industry regularly uses it for analyzing the success of new releases. For this reason, many believe that Sony aims to offer greater transparency and further engage its community.
Of course, the number of active players doesn't always tell the whole story. Numerous developers have warned in recent months that gameplay statistics often do not reflect the actual popularity of games on consoles, where the PlayStation audience can be significantly larger than on the PC platform.
For now, it is unknown when this option will become available to all PlayStation 5 users, but the fact that it has already appeared in the beta version of the system suggests that Sony is seriously working on its upcoming launch.
If the functionality proves successful, PlayStation could become much more open regarding data that it has mostly kept behind closed doors, and for gaming media and players, this could be a very interesting tool for tracking real trends on the PlayStation 5 console.
