PS5 Tips & Tricks: 9 Things You Didn't Know It Could Do

1. View Time Spent Playing Games

Straight out of the Nintendo Switch's profile menu is Sony's take on itemising your entire game-playing history across PS4 and PS5, complete with to-the-hour play time.

To access, you just need to go on your profile and then into the "Games" tile. This can be done either by hitting the PS button and going on your avatar icon on the far right, then into Profile, or tapping into that same avatar image from the top-right of the dashboard.

Once inside you'll see a full breakdown of titles played in descending order of recency. Also included are trophy percentages letting you know how close you are to netting a 100% Platinum.

Combined with SSD loading, the various ways you can button into unfinished parts of titles and in-game hints, we're gonna be playing a lot more games a lot faster than ever before.