More and more people come thanks to the end of the console shortage enjoy one PlayStation 5. Reason enough to present one of the most exciting features of the PS5 in more detail: the so-called Game Sharing.
Because while it doesn’t require much effort, a physical version of one PS5 game Sharing with someone simply by handing them the appropriate disc is a bit more difficult with a digitally-purchased title. Fortunately, you can easily enable your console’s game sharing feature.
PlayStation 5: what does game sharing even mean?
At its most basic, game sharing is a feature of your PlayStation 5 that allows you to share your digital games with friends and family so they can play them on their own PS5 system as if they owned it. The reverse is of course the same, so are you interested in getting into the Your friends game library you should keep reading anyway.
The feature is slightly different from game sharing on PS4, as you no longer need to set the PS5 as your primary console. Instead, you link your PSN account to the other console and enable console sharing and offline play.
Mistaken the Game Sharing in this case not with the so-called Share Play: The former gives another person full access to your digital library to play the titles in their user account, while the latter only gives temporary access to the account to play your games. Do you also have one? PlayStation Plus-Subscriptionthis can also be used by your friend or family member.
This is how you can share PS5 games with others
If you want to try out the game sharing feature for yourself, you can only do so on one PS5 console at a time with your account. This means that if the feature is enabled, you must first disable it on your main PS5 console before enabling it on another device.
Then make sure your PS5 console is connected to the internet and you’re signed in with your PSN account. Then you navigate via the Ideas to the point Users and Accounts and decide under “Others” for the Console sharing and offline play. Consequently disables the feature.
Keep in mind that this also automatically denies other users of your PS5 access to your digital game library. Additionally, after following the steps, you will no longer be able to access your digital titles offline either, as your console requires an internet connection to verify title ownership through the PSN server.
Now you sit in front of the other PlayStation 5 on which you want to make your digitally purchased games available and log in with your PSN account. Now navigate back to the console share and the offline game and this time choose not to disable the optionto use game sharing. The second PS5 console can then download the desired game and play it through its owner’s own PSN account, as if the person bought it themselves.
Protect your PSN account
Even if game sharing opens up completely new possibilities for you and your friends to play your favorite PS5 games, you should be careful with your data as usual. We therefore recommend that you login information eures PSN-Accounts not to pass onbut to log in personally on the second console.
Otherwise, nothing can go wrong with PlayStation 5 game sharing. In addition to the particularly exciting feature, we will show you elsewhere five settings to customize your gaming experience on the PS5 can be massively improved again.
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