European PlayStation players get more Platinums than US players, Sony reveals

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European PS4 and PS5 players are more likely to earn Platinum Trophies than their United States counterparts, a Sony presentation has revealed.

As part of the CEDEC 2022 game developer conference held online in Japan last week, transcribed by 4Gamer, Sony’s Kenjo Akiyama, who is head of the Tokyo Global Developer Technology Department, gave a presentation looking at PS4 and PS5 user behaviour in the US, Europe, Japan and the rest of Asia.

As part of his study, Akiyama concluded that Japanese players tend to have a higher overall Trophy completion rate per game, suggesting they play a single title for a long time and earn lots of Trophies in that game before moving on.

However, Akiyama found that in terms of the highest tier Platinum Trophies, which are awarded for collecting every Trophy in a game, players in Europe and Asia (excluding Japan) are most likely to earn them, while players in the US are least likely to do so.

Akiyama also pointed out that while Japanese players were ranked almost as low as the US for earning Platinums, when it comes to games that are considered the most difficult Japan and the rest of Asia tend to get Platinums far more frequently than their western counterparts.

Akiyama suggested that this means that Asian players have more of a “never give up” attitude and are determined to overcome the hardest games.

To reach his findings, Akiyama looked at all the titles released in the past year which were rated in the Top 100 by region, were released in all regions, and had a Platinum Trophy.

He then created a list showing the average Trophy completion rate for each game in the Europe, US, Japan and rest of Asia regions, ranking each region from 1st to 4th for each game.

According to Akiyama’s findings, Japan