Each December, PlayStation turns your year of button-mashing into a glossy highlight reel, and 2025 is no exception. PlayStation 2025 Wrap-Up has officially launched, giving PS4 and PS5 players a personalized recap of their gaming year – from most-played titles to favorite controller – but not everyone can get it to load right now.
What Is PlayStation 2025 Wrap-Up?
Sony’s
PlayStation 2025 Wrap-Up is a web-based, shareable recap of your year on PS4 and PS5. It pulls in your activity from January 1 through December 31, 2025 and turns it into a slick, scrollable story of:
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Most-played games and
favorite genres-
Total hours played, split across single-player and multiplayer
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Trophies earned and milestone unlocks, including rare trophies
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Number of games played and an overview of your “gaming style”
Think of it as
Spotify Wrapped, but for your PlayStation life—complete with a digital summary card tailor-made for posting on social feeds.
When You Can Access It – And For How Long
The 2025 Wrap-Up went live
December 9 and will remain available through
January 8, 2026. Sony notes the recap will
keep updating until year’s end, so if you marathon a game over the holidays, those extra hours should still make it into your final stats if you check back before the cutoff.
You can view it by signing into your PlayStation account on the dedicated Wrap-Up website.
Requirements (And Why Some Players Don’t See Anything)
Not every account qualifies automatically. Sony has set a few
eligibility rules:
- You must have a
PlayStation account in your region and be
an adult.
- You need to have played
at least 10 hours on a
PS4 or PS5 between January 1 and December 31, 2025.
- Data settings matter:
- On
PS5, you need to have consented to collection of
“Full Data” in 2025.
- On
PS4 in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australasia, India, and Russia, you must have allowed
“Additional Data” collection.
If you opted out of those analytics settings, you
won’t be able to participate in the 2025 Wrap-Up.
What’s New in the 2025 Edition
Sony has clearly leaned into making this feel more personal and hardware-aware this year. Beyond the usual playtime charts and trophy flexes,
2025 Wrap-Up adds some extra flavor:
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Accessory insights:
- How much you used
PlayStation VR2- Time spent with the
PlayStation Portal remote player
- Your
most used DualSense wireless controller design (yes, right down to color/edition)
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PlayStation Plus breakdown:
- How active you were on PS Plus this year
- A
personalized playlist of recommended games available via PS Plus Extra/Premium, based on your habits
As usual, you also get a
shareable summary card that condenses your key stats into a single, social-ready image.
The Glass-Themed Avatar Everyone’s Chasing
Sony is dangling a little digital swag for participation: finish walking through your Wrap-Up and you’ll
unlock a unique glass-themed avatar for your PlayStation profile.
- You earn it by
completing the Wrap-Up experience end-to-end.
- Once done, you can
redeem the avatar and keep it permanently tied to your account.
For anyone who prides themselves on profile aesthetics, this is the 2025 badge of honor.
Big Games Dominating 2025 Wrap-Ups
Sony’s official blog frames the 2025 recap around a year packed with
high-profile releases on PS5:
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Ghost of Yōtei, a major follow-up set centuries after
Ghost of Tsushima-
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Hideo Kojima’s anticipated sequel
- Critically buzzed titles like
Blue Prince and
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Coverage from outlets like Game Rant and GameSpot notes that players are already comparing absurd hour counts in heavy hitters such as
Death Stranding 2,
NBA 2K26, and
Astro Bot.
If your feed is suddenly full of people flexing 300+ hours in
Clair Obscur or bragging about platinum trophies, Wrap-Up is why.
Server Woes: “Uh Oh… Looks Like Something Went Wrong”
Of course, no viral year-in-review feature is complete without
launch-day strain. Multiple reports say the
Wrap-Up 2025 site is struggling under demand.
TechRadar describes:
- Frequent
“Uh oh… Looks like something went wrong :(” error screens after login.
- In some cases, even the error page stopped loading, replaced by a
500 Internal Server Error.
The issues echo 2024’s Wrap-Up rollout, which suffered a more severe crash, though this year seems more like intermittent overload than a total shutdown.
In practice, that means:
- Some players are getting through after a few refreshes.
- Others can’t even sign in yet and may need to
try at off-peak hours.
Given how these campaigns usually play out, it’s reasonable to expect stability to improve over the coming days as initial traffic spikes ease.
How to Check Your 2025 Wrap-Up
If you want to see your stats (and you meet the requirements), here’s your playbook based on Sony and press guidance:
1.
Go to the PlayStation 2025 Wrap-Up site.2.
Sign in with your PlayStation Network account.
3. If it loads,
scroll through the recap to see:
- Hours played
- Top games and genres
- Trophies and rare unlocks
- Accessory usage and preferred DualSense
- PlayStation Plus activity and recommended playlist
4. At the end,
claim your glass-themed avatar and
download/share your summary card.
If you keep hitting errors, TechRadar suggests simply
waiting and trying again later, as some users are already successfully pulling their recaps after multiple attempts.
Why These Wrap-Ups Keep Getting Bigger
From Spotify Wrapped to Nintendo recap emails,
year-end summaries have become a cultural ritual—a mix of nostalgia, data nerdery, and social flexing. PlayStation has been running some form of Wrap-Up since 2017, and the 2025 version underlines how much:
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Personal analytics have become part of fandom
- Platform holders use
shareable cards as stealth marketing
- Players are eager for a
“story” of their year in games, not just a trophy list
There’s also a subtle platform war angle. Game Rant points out that Xbox has yet to launch its own 2025 year-in-review tool, even as more former Xbox exclusives, like
Forza Horizon 5 and
Microsoft Flight Simulator, arrive on PS5. A polished, viral recap helps Sony own the conversation at the very end of the year.
What This Means for Players Going Into 2026
For everyday players,
2025 Wrap-Up is partly entertainment and partly a mirror. It can:
- Expose how much time you really sank into one live service game
- Nudge you toward underplayed genres via PS Plus recommendations
- Highlight just how central accessories like PS VR2 or Portal were to your setup
Looking ahead, outlets are already speculating that
2026 Wrap-Up could be shaped by releases like
Resident Evil Requiem,
007: First Light,
Yakuza Kiwami 3, and especially
Grand Theft Auto 6, if it lands on schedule late next year.
If your 2025 card is all Death Stranding and Ghost of Yōtei, don’t be surprised if your 2026 stats are completely hijacked by GTA 6 chaos.
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