PS4 digital purchases work on 'any PS4' so long as you're signed in
Currently, buying a digital PS3 game on PlayStation Network lets you access it on up to two activated systems. However, digital PS4 games can be accessed on any PS4, so long as you're signed in.
Currently, buying a digital PS3 game on PlayStation Network lets you access it on up to two activated systems. However, digital PS4 games can be played on any PS4, so long as you're signed in.
A new video from PlayStation explains that any content associated with your PlayStation Network ID will be accessible from any PS4 you log into. "You can access your games and other purchases from these machines so long as you're signed in," the video explains. "Access ends if you sign out."
Of course, if you don't want to be online all the time to access content, you'll be "nominate one PS4 as your home machine." By doing so, "your content is always available on that device, even to other users." Even games downloaded via PlayStation Plus will be accessible to other users on that device.
To sum up, PS4's digital policy is both more and less restrictive than Sony's established system. You can have more "home" machines on PS3 and Vita, but with PS4, you're not restricted to playing your games only on activated systems.
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replyAndrew Yoon posted a new article, PS4 digital purchases work on 'any PS4' so long as you're signed in.
Currently, buying a digital PS3 game on PlayStation Network lets you access it on up to two activated systems. However, digital PS4 games can be accessed on any PS4, so long as you're signed in.-
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Except that, on 360, once you access digital games or DLC on another 360 than the one it was purchased on, you MUST be signed in to access it from that point on...even if you go back to your original console, that content can only be accessed if you are online...in otherwords, MS treats you like a thief if you move content onto a console that it isn't originally licensed to.
If you go into your account and reassign the licenses to a single console, then everything goes back to normal and you can access your content online and off again on the newly assigned console. But you can only do this every 4 months or so.
The difference I see with Sony's method is that you actually get to assign a console as your default home console from the beginning, and you'll always be able to access and share your content on that console, online or off, regardless of how many other consoles you've accessed the content on. If it allowed you to assign TWO home consoles, like you can with the PS3, it would be perfect for me....right now it's fair, but sort of meh...only a tad better than Microsoft's DRM policy.-
"Except that, on 360, once you access digital games or DLC on another 360 than the one it was purchased on, you MUST be signed in to access it from that point on...even if you go back to your original console, that content can only be accessed if you are online"
Nope.
Once you download something on Xbox, that content is available to anyone who uses that console, offline, online, anyone's account, it doesn't matter. This doesn't change even if you access that content on another 360. I've been doing this for years with our two 360s at home and even my mate's 360.
I regularly download something on my 360 and then play it on my wife's 360 and then later on I can play it on my 360 while offline. In fact, I can play something I've bought on another 360 while other accounts on my 360 play the same content.
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Well, it's different than on PS3/PSP/Vita. On those devices, you had a limit to how many systems you could download licenses on. On PS4, you can only have one "home" device, but then use your content on as many devices as you'd like. So it's both more and less restrictive.
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To be fair, the way they did it before was pretty ridiculously open to exploitation, so it's not surprising they didn't keep it around.
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Agreed. Hopefully in a couple of years when the PS4 has a large install base Sony will expand the limit on Home consoles to "two", to more closely resemble the system they have now.
I'm a little puzzled as to what the big deal is about being able to log in and play one of my games at a friend's house if he or she can't join in and play with me. Would they be able to play under their own account, or would they essentially have to play with me as my "guest" in a multiplayer game?
That also brings up a question that neither this article or that fairly detailed video revealed...can two profiles be signed in on the PS4 at the same time, like on the Xbox 360, so that friends playing local multiplayer games can earn experience and trophies on their own individual profiles? Right now it's looking like the answer is no, just like on PS3.
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Wake me when Nintendo does the same thing.
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