This New Community Activity Widget Tells You What's Hot Right Now on PS5

Must admit, I struggle to see the point of having this on your screen, unless you just want to be bombarded with yet more mentions of Fortnite.

@Anke I really like this approach!

No disc no buy is very hottt

@Quintumply However, I wasn't expecting Teardown to feature twice in Trending Now.

It has Mods now and in my opinion the Modded maps are better than the base game. The community members who made them went above and beyond. It's a whole other game now. It's harder to get on physical too and I'm pretty sure was or is on sale digitally.

Edit: I checked and they are trying to ship it to me from America and Japan, there was an Amazon UK/Germany listing and it seems to be gone. They might not be printing European copies anymore.

If this didnt show the top 10 it would be a waste of time. Because your top 5 or 6 games are always the same.

@Anke Unfortunately this Sony would never do anything like that. Even though its a great idea. Ive begged for years for them to overhaul the hideous main trophy UI and nothing is ever done. They just keep adding dumba#$ features like this.

Nah, I don't need another Fortnite commercial.

It's implicit marketing, nothing more

I’m a sucker for these things. I like knowing what the masses are playing even if I’m not playing them.

Can't wait to be reminded about the absolutely dreadful state of video games every time I turn my console on!

oooooooo everyone is playing Fortnite better hop on in case I miss out!

All it is, is a reminder of how powerful, terrible and bland the taste is of a lot of the heterosexual male casual gamers. Fortnight, COD, Generic annual sports game . Grim.

Astro’s Playroom! Japan Studio eternalised itself on every PS5.

And hundreds over hundreds of millions spent for live service games which will probably never get into the top 10.

I'd rather see Friends activities and screenshots like in the PS4 days...

@PaperAlien Rofl, lol wtf are you talking about? That's so funny man, you literally had me loling out loud. Thank you. Haha.

Yeah it's a pretty pointless widget, not very imaginative at all. Like someone got paid to think of a widget and that's the best they could come up with.

@Espectro2410
Except it isn’t.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/09/ps5-blackout-protest-made-no-significant-change-at-all-to-player-counts-says-us-data

@PaperAlien
I wouldn’t limit that to “heterosexual male casual gamers.” Pretty sure it’s universal.

I mean, it's not a bad thing, but there's so many other things people would want over this that'd take just as much effort. And like others have said, you don't really need an extra Widget to tell you Sports Games, CoD, Fortnite, Minecraft, & GTA are popular every day.

@PerpetualBoredom 100% agree

@Anke funny you usw the wird Zeitgeist... In Germany we use english words everywhere These days

This feature is decent but still I wouldn’t necessarily trust the info. Very easy to put the games you want to sell on the trending page. Eg if this existed when concord came out it 100% would have made the trending page even though no one was playing it.

@GirlVersusGame no offence meant, but removed anyway

@GirlVersusGame they probably shouldn't tie straight male gamers to COD and Fortnite either , I find that derogatory.

People know that these are optional additions to their widget right?

Like you can position it wherever you want or turn it off entirely - something this article unsurprisingly fails to note for the uninitiated.

My god people will just cry about anything for zero reason.

The "trending widget" is a bit useless once you see what games be on them lol. Good for games for highlighting games you never heard of maybe but the percentages don't have real context. I've been in the beta early on this and we used to see the actual player count which was when you combined things was much more useful in terms of information.

@Dimey Fair enough, I only said it because you once said you were going to leave over that Starfied thing and how you felt about that is how people who did leave here felt about labels/etc.

Edit: I'll delete mine too, have a good one Dimey.

@dwayne91 I played most of the games on that list, I'm talking about a community of people who don't need to feel like another species on here. It happened yesterday too, it doesn't need to.

@GirlVersusGame you too!

I dig it. Would be cool to have two separate tabs for free games and paid games. Kids with a ton of free time and no money will always skew the thing in certain ways (hence Fortnite), but if we could have a category for paid games that released in the last year, THAT would be cool to see.

@Icey664 that was so good. the community aspect of the ps4 was pretty great, the community/groups were cool too.

@dwayne91 lmao 😂

What's the point of this popularity contest feature showing games like Fortnite, COD, yearly 2K sport games, GTA 5 etc in the chart???

I don't think community activist meant what I thought it meant before reading this article.

looks like an ad to me

That Hansel is so hot right now.

@Espectro2410 no disc no buy went the way of Concord lol

Don't really care for this feature. I don't play GAAS and I already know what games I want to play through sites like this and trailers on the PS YouTube or Nintendo YouTube.

I think it’s kinda surprising that the only CoD game in the top 10 is a port of a, what, 14 year old game, and the latest release in the series doesn’t get a look in even above Astro!

Sony could work on a new PS Home, or an avatar / mii equivalent, or a gamerscore equivalent, or fixing broken wishlist items, or improving the UI, or implement displayed trophies.

Alas, Sony are Sony; ergo, they'll always make the 'Sony' decision.