The days of disc and cartridge sharing between friends are effectively gone. Nowadays, if you want to share a game, the process almost always has to happen digitally. With gameshare, you can allow anyone signed into your PlayStation 5 to play your games and media remotely. In return, you can also access the library of games on their console, even when either console is offline. Here’s how to gameshare on PS5.
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To gameshare on PS5, navigate to Settings > Users and Accounts > Other and select Console Sharing and Offline Play. Have your friend sign in to your console with their PSN account, and you'll have access to the game libraries on each other's consoles.
Console sharing and offline play allow you to share your games and some PlayStation Plus subscription benefits with other players, such as online multiplayer. When you enable the feature, anyone signed into your PS5 console can access the library of games or media you’ve purchased and downloaded on their PS5. However, you can only do so with one other person at a time, so use the feature wisely.
To enable gameshare, navigate to Settings > Users and Accounts.
Scroll down and select Other, thenchoose Console Sharing and Offline Play to enable the feature.
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After the person you’re gamesharing with logs into your console with their PSN account, they’ll have access to any of your compatible games from their PS5. To disable the feature, follow the same steps outlined above.
You may be wondering if gamesharing goes both ways, and thankfully, the answer is yes. Whoever you share with will have access to your library, and you’ll have access to any of the games on their console. The only catch is that only one of you can play the other’s games at a time, meaning you can’t be playing each other’s games simultaneously. But you can theoretically coordinate to get twice as many games for half the price with a trusted friend. Let’s keep that on the down-low.
FAQs
Yes, you can gameshare with one other PSN account at a time on PS5.
Yes, you can gameshare on PS4 and PS5 and even gameshare between them. However, you can’t download or play PS5 games on a PS4, for obvious reasons.
You can gameshare with one other PSN account at a time.
If you’ve purchased a disc for a PS5 game, you need to lend your friend that platter for them to play. They can, however, download the game via gameshare to have it ready in advance.
No, you can only share with one other person at a time.
To enable gameshare, navigate to Settings > Users and Accounts.Scroll down and select Other, then choose Console Sharing and Offline Play to enable the feature. After the person you're gamesharing with logs into your console with their PSN account, they'll have access to any of your compatible games from their PS5.
If you're a PlayStation Plus member, you can start Share Play from a party. Select Party from the function screen. Set up or join a party with the friend you want to Share Play with. From the party screen, select Share Play.
The player who initiates Share Play is the host, and the player who joins is the visitor. You can use Share Play with players using a PS5™ console or a PS4™ system. For details on parties, see “Joining a party”. A child who is restricted by parental controls might not be able to use this feature.
After the person you're gamesharing with logs back in via their PSN account, they will have access to any of your compatible games from their PS5. Use this feature wisely. As far as we know, you can only gameshare with one other person, so make the decision a good one.
Locked games on your PS5 console? If you see a padlock icon next to a game, it could mean there's a problem with the game's license. If the padlock covers the whole game image, your Family Manager can amend it. To verify that you have the license for the content, please follow the steps below.
(If you do have a friend with a PS5, you can also play their PS5 games on your PS4 with Share Play, too.) Here are two ways to use Share Play to share digital copies of a PS4 game with another PS4 player. Just note that to use the Share Play feature, both of you will need to have a PlayStation Plus subscription.
Step 1: Once you're ready, select the icon at the top left on the home screen, then navigate to the user account menu (again on the left). ...
Step 2: From there, you must make your gameshare partner's Xbox One your “home Xbox.” Go to Settings > Personalize > My home Xbox > Make this my home Xbox.
Luckily, it's still possible to share games with friends or to try out games that your friends own, even if you only have a digital copy. With PlayStation 4 and a little finagling, you're still able to gameshare with friends and family, potentially saving you a ton of cash.
The game sharing PS5 doesn't have apparent drawbacks, but it has a limit on PlayStation Now – Sony's games-on-demand service. It means that a person who is not signed up for the service even with console sharing activated for both accounts is unable to make use of the subscription.
No. You can only share your games and PlayStation Plus benefits with accounts on one PS5 console with Console Sharing and Offline Play activated and your primary PS4 console.
Yes. Each acct gets one “primary” console and can login to any other one as well. The benefit of the primary console is that any account on the console can play all the titles purchased by the primary acct. You also don't have to be online for license checking.
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