'Xbox Wrapped' Ditched For 2025 Due To Ambitious 2026 Plans, Suggests Report

True Achievements has their one up: https://www.trueachievements.com/news/announcing-my-year-on-xbox-2025

Thank you, @FraserG. I always appreciate the efforts you and your team do for these forums... 😊

I really want to see my Wrap with Xbox, @somnambulance. I took a look at the True Achievements one via the link above, and I can see that I earned 9821 gamerscore across 24 games, and as I only play larger games, I must have been playing for a while.

What made me chuckle was that my biggest time sink was New World Aternum, which I played entirely solo, and which I played for 628 hours (and that was just this year because I played it solidly since October last year). Plus I only earned 7 achievements in the game! 628 hours in one game, whereas I played only a total of 217 hours on my PS5 across two games.

I know I've played my Xbox for over a thousand hours, I just want to know exactly how much, and you can only get that kind of detail from the official Xbox Wrap...

I did it through True Achievements and the craziest thing my wrap said was that I played 216 different games this year.

I did the true achievements one just over 25000g and 82 different games played not bad for the limited time I can play daily me thinks 🤔
The Xbox site yearly review isn't working for me yet.

That is absolutely crazy, @JustinSane. According to True Achievements, I have played just 24 games though many of them will be for between 50 and 621 hours each. I can only guess at the moment, but as I play on average 6 to 8 hours a day so I'd image that my overall total is absolutely ridiculous...

Why would Microsoft bother doing something for their fans?

I love these end of year wrap ups usually, the data is fascinating. The Xbox always ends up being mostly useless for me though as I partake in the Microsoft Rewards quests, which mandates 15 minutes of a Game Pass game per day. So I boot up a game every day and let it idle until the task is complete. So my playtime stats are completely borked. In previous years I’ve had Age of Empires take top spot back when ‘Play with friends on PC’ was a thing. So I'm expecting a bunch of reward quest games clogging up the rankings and skewing the stats.

First year that I don’t expect to even cross 100 hours on Xbox since more than a decade ago, been much busier and I have the whole platform in hiatus, not abandoning it but not investing in it either.

@TheGameThrifter It's Christmas lad enough negativity be happy 👍

@Fiendish-Beaver how do you find the time to play video games for 7/8 hours a day? Are you retired?

Yes, @GamingGod, I seriously injured my back after whilst a serving Police Officer. It meant that I was not able to stand for more than 10/15 minutes without severe discomfort, and after 20 minutes I was in a huge amount of pain. I struggle to walk, and was told I'd be a in a wheelchair by 65 (I'm 62 in 11 days time!), and now walk with a cane, though obviously with the requirement to stand whilst walking, I don't go far anyway these days. My wife died 3 years ago, I don't watch that much television, and so I now pass the time undertaking my favourite hobby. It's not how I envisaged this stage of my life, but it's okay I guess...

I played two games on my PS5 this year, @somnambulance; 121 hours in Days Gone: Remastered and 96 hours in Ghost of Yotei. Just two games, and I think there was only one last year!

I have had my PS5 since day one, and only use it for a few of the exclusives that Sony produce. My Series X, which I have also had since day one, is abused every day, will have been played for well over a 1000 hours this year alone, and is still going strong. My hope is that the forthcoming PCBox is a compelling device, that my Series X lasts through to the time of the commencement of the next generation...

@Chip-Douglas What has Xbox done for their console owners that would make them happy?

@TheGameThrifter Ask not what can Xbox can do for you but what can you do for Xbox!
But seriously they gave some people free store credit up the 10 quid??
Not me though😭

@Fiendish-Beaver oh mate that’s terrible I apologise for even asking that question. 🙈. I guess gaming is an escape for you then mate. Hope you keep well and happy. Personally I’d love to game for those hours of the day but certainly in different circumstances. I’ve always admired what the police have to do and without them the place would go even more to the dogs than it already has. Keep enjoying you’re gaming pal 👌🏻

I honestly did not mind explaining, @GamingGod. People on here obviously don't know me, and so when they see me make a comment such as I game for 8 hours a day, they are going to wonder how that can be. Seriously, I did not mind the question, and I just answered it honestly. Please do not feel bad for asking, because I really had no problem with the question. It's all good...

@Fiendish-Beaver @Titntin hear hear mate . Appreciate that fella! You hear a lot these days about how many people are living off the state and trying to con the systems but sometimes forget there are actual real people who need and deserve that help, annoyed with myself for assuming that conclusion🙈. I just wish it was given to the correct people all the time like yourself. Peace brother ✌🏻

Back issues are no laughing matter, @Titntin. I gave myself a prolapsed disc in 1990 when I was building a wall. I bent down to pick up a breezeblock and that was the start of all my problems.

At the time it happened I was a fit young man who used to run marathons, and used to run into work each morning, before running home at the end of my shift. It was a run of 7 miles each way.

After I injured my back it was never as strong again, and I had a prolapsed disc on multiple occasions thereafter. I used to try running, but I was never as fit again. Eventually I just had to stop because I was just aggravating my back all the time.

I had surgery about 20 years ago, but it did not help and I was told there was nothing more that could be done. Just to add to my woes, I developed arthritis in my spine, which was nice! I was supposed to retire in 2012, but had to take early retirement from the Police in 2010.

The one saving grace is that my pension is decent enough to allow me to get by, and as I do not drink, nor go out and about all that much, I am able to save enough money to buy games each month. It's not what I expected in life, but I am fortunate in many ways, which is more than some can say.

Anyway, I hope you fair better than me, because I take 48 tablets a day, all for issues caused by my back. It's all fun and games (literally!). Make the most of your retirement when it comes and take it easy, mate... 👍

Still no news or rumours on this one, I take it, @FraserG...?

Looks like a no-show for 2025, which is a shame

Thank you, @FraserG. I did look it up yesterday, and there have apparently been times where many years have elapsed when Microsoft have not done one. Seems really odd to not do one, especially when everyone else is...

TA says my top game was Silksong at 101 hours. Enjoyed every minute… ok maybe not the Bilewater boss runbacks.

I'm still holding out for a January appearance like Nintendo.

Really disappointed by this, I want to know just how many hours I have played my Xbox for. Last year I spent 1950 hours on my Xbox, and Baldur's Gate 3 was my top played game at 332 hours. I know I've spent a long time on my Xbox this year because according to True Achievements, I have spent 628 hours playing New World: Aternum alone, and I stopped playing that in either March or April this year.

I was in the top 1% of time played on the Xbox last year, and I'd put money on that being the case this year too as I only spent 217 hours on my PS5 this year, having played just two games on it for the entire year. Every other second of my playtime has been on the Xbox, so my hours are going to be very high indeed.

Just have to hope that Microsoft think that January is a better time to give us our Wrapped for the previous year...

Microsoft clearly gives ZERO F's about their fans...

That’s a shame but tbf these things are a nice to have rather than essential. 2025 is likely the first time in a decade Xbox has more playtime than my PS albeit mostly on PC. Steam has dwarfed everything else by a country mile though.

Bit dissapointing this, but oh well, the trueachievements one is pretty cool.

17 games played, not bad, top by number of hours being FFXIV, no surprises there.

Hope you guys have a brilliant end of the year and get to play your favourite games over the festive period!

As a fan of facts, figures and statistics in general, it makes me sad to not get an Xbox year end wrap up. But I get it. Looking at things from their perspective, if there’s no money to be made from it and no way to use it to shove ai down people’s throats, why would they bother with a wrap up?

I liked my True Achievements one but I would have appreciated one from Xbox again

@Fiendish-Beaver man, im sorry to hear all what happened to you and for the loss of your wife. Always remember you have friends on places like this and im glad you found gaming, otherwise I wouldn't get to read your posts on it in these places. Raising a glass to you and yours my man.

I signed up for the true achievements one, and it's pretty good!

My most played game on Xbox was KCD 2 at 125 hours.

What a let down. And a hard to believe excuse.

Well I know PS5 is 96 hours same as last year.
So PS5 will be third again.
Switch will be low but switch 2 will bring that up.
Probably to second.
So I’m thinking Xbox first.
So the same order as 2024 wrap up.

Like I always say Sony was first for 2 years of this generation then stopped making first party exclusives until Astro bot and then GOY this year.
But that’s not enough for me to get higher hours on PS5.
Goes to show how my playtime has changed over the last five years especially Sony first to third.

I bet whenever the wrap up does arrive, no one will outdo Jez Corden in the ‘Goalposts Moved’ stat

Consoles sales are down 70% but don’t worry because even though profits are down, margins are up. MS makes more money from every vanishingly rare sale even though they are making less money overall.

I'm sure the few dollars Microsoft saved by not paying a couple developers to work on it is going to make next year so amazing. /s

Well that sucks! I was really looking forward to seeing my year with Xbox, and seeing whether I could top my 1950 hours that I played for last year. I only put 217 hours into my PS5, where I played just two games (Ghost of Yotei and Days Gone: Remastered), but I know I would have played for a lot longer on my Xbox, where I apparently put 628 hours into New World: Aternum in the first 3 or 4 months. So I think I may have managed to top last years hours, but not I'll never know for sure...

Thank you, @FraserG & @Weebleman. That means a lot. I do like this community, and being part of it. I love the fact that so many of us are passionate about all things Xbox, and I enjoy the back and forths I have with people, even when they're wrong! 😂