Overview
- Market tracker Circana reports average weekly playtime of 22 hours on PlayStation and 20 hours on Xbox, ranking first on Xbox by hours per user and second on PlayStation.
- The game also moved into the top 20 by total weekly active console users in the US, placing No. 14 on PlayStation and No. 18 on Xbox, according to Circana’s Mat Piscatella.
- Forbes notes sustained retention with about 276,000 peak concurrent players on the second weekend and roughly 201,000 on a subsequent Monday night.
- A Reddit user known as TioZer0 said they earned the Platinum trophy after 305 hours by repeating 56‑hour play sessions with 8 hours of sleep, drawing a safety warning from Pearl Abyss marketing lead Will Powers.
- Coverage estimates the open world can take 250–300 hours to fully complete and 300 or more to Platinum, while Pearl Abyss continues rapid patches after launch issues and reports of multi‑million early sales.