Approximately 25% of all PS5 consoles in circulation have never been used.

"To figure out how many consoles were collecting dust in a corner waiting to be sold rather than being used by players, a “My PS4 Life” scenario would need to occur.

While there has not been a widespread event like this for PS5 games, there currently exists a way to calculate the total number of users for one of the launch titles, Astro’s Playroom. Astro’s Playroom is specifically intriguing because not only is it arguably one of the top five exclusives currently available, but because it is included for free with every console. Sony wanted to prove the capabilities of the PS5 controller with this title, and, in my opinion, Astro’s Playroom did an exemplary job putting those features on display. However, PlayStation seemed to unveil something else during Astro’s Playroom — the total number of worldwide players interacting with the game. We can calculate this amount in a similar way to the “My PS4 Life” formula by looking at the percentage completion for a particular trophy for the game:

Run Astro Run! Trophy — “Got a total Speed Run time of 7 minutes or under”

At the time of this writing, the percentage of people who had accomplished this achievement was 6.0%.

More here:

https://deceitfuldata.medium.com/at-least-25-of-all-ps5-consoles-in-circulation-have-never-been-used-5852e1afd28b

This thread is hate speech. 😋

@Pedro: Do you think like it's reasonable to assume that most PS5 owners will try Astro's Playroom for at least 7 minutes?

Having never played Astro's - is that trophy meaningful? The name implies it's a speed-run challenge

Some people are just not interested in the game. So, yes.

I know multiple people who immediately deleted Astro to make room for other games. Sure, there’s likely a good amount of consoles sitting in a resellers storage unit, waiting to be sold. But what you’re getting at is over 2 million of them? Nah, I’m not buying that. Maybe in the 5 figures, 20K-50K. But not millions.

I would say it's probably lower than that but not by much. Scalpers are a cancer to consumers getting their hands on these systems.

This isn't a good metric to go by, honestly; but, that being said, it's likely true that many bought from stores PS5 and Xbox systems aren't in end consumer hands yet.

O wow, that’s pretty sad. But with no good games, I can understand why.

Uhhhhhh.... you have to beat every level and the final boss to even unlock all of the speed run levels to get "Run Astro Run! Trophy'. It's one of the last trophies you can get in the game. lol

The Sony envy is strong in this one

Does speed run mean something else now?

I'm not understanding the logic here. But let's assume everyone that got a PS5 played this game. Well 96% got the "One Down, Lots More to Go" trophy.

Oh no, a Xbox fan opened a thread about PS5 game. Who knew.... So much insecurity in Xbox fans. It will be a rough gen for them

When I get the ps5 pro I will never play astros play room.... This is not a great measure of anything.

How is this shit thread still open?

nah. ps5 user are far more salty then any other game atm. by a large margin online.

most user i had to block for death threats,curse filled etc.

for debating 4k,8k storage topics.

No idea how a random trophy that has been completed by 6% of the player leads to 25% of ps5’s not being used??

And this surprised nobody. Poo cows. :P

Most of the questions raised are addressed in the article. I'm not sure about the numbers, not even the author is, but it does implies that a very big number of consoles might be in the hands of scalpers.

Naaah. Xbox fans are salty since 2012. This gen will be also a rough for Xbox fans. PS5 is already far away.

So let me get this straight…

They’re basing this statistic off of a completion trophy from a game that comes with the console day 1?

Well we can officially render this statistic as “moot” seeing that I not only have a ps5, but also regularly uses it, and never got that trophy for Astro’s Playroom.

@mowgly1: Nope! You and your goons saltiness are now legendary. Must be due to no games to play for the rest of the year.😎

Like every gangsta that owns a PS5, i deleted Astro Playroom without even trying it, so this statistic is😅

I did exactly this as well. I have no intentions of playing Astro's Play room.

I don't know what's worse, being a scalper, hording consoles to sell at bloated prices or being a consumer who talks themselves into paying those prices....

.... For a console that isn't even close to compelling enough at this moment.

Crazy behaviors...

There's a lot of assumptions in that calculation.

I am of the mindset, and this goes for everyone, that a vast majority of gamers probably only get a couple games for their systems and rarely touch them again. The 10 game attach rates consoles typically see in their life, probably a small upper percentage of hardcore gamers who buy dozens, hundreds of titles over the cycle, they probably pick up most of the slack.

But yeah, I would say a guesstimate that 25% of any gamers aren't playing their consoles or barely touching them, safe guess, and is universal. As for the next tier of people who don't really play, they play, but they are only interested in one or two things, like people who will buy Call of Duty, and that's it, they just do MP might not even touch the SP and they maybe put hundreds of hours into it, but that's all they are going to play... so I wouldn't expect people like that to play the freebies.

I also wouldn't think scalpers are going to cause such a percentage of unused consoles, as they would not be able to sustain such a mark-up. Plus, we saw with PS3's scalpers couldn't sell them at first so they just returned them to the retailers when they were sitting on unsold inventory. That isn't happening.

Deleted it? What? I thought it couldn't be deleted off the hard drive.

Yeah... that trophy doesn't mean you played the game for 7 minutes. Far from it as a matter of fact. The correlation is bad.. like really bad.