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PS5 game sharing and how to assign a primary PS5 console

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How to assign a primary PS5 console? If you've got multiple PlayStation 5s, play on other people's consoles, or take your PSN accounts with yous every bit you go, it's useful to know how to set your ain PS5 as the primary one - aka, your proper console for all your main experiences. It allows you to share games between accounts, to a sure extent - not a bad thought considering the limited availability of PS5s to begin with.

That said, it'due south non immediately obvious how you set up a primary PS5 to enable the process. To go started you lot'll need to head into the Console Sharing and Offline Play options in the menu, so here'south everything y'all need to know almost that and how yous can enable PS5 game sharing.

The expert news is that PS5 game sharing is still possible, though the option is a piddling subconscious and the wording has changed somewhat. Now, instead of setting a item console equally your principal PS5, yous enable Console Sharing and Offline Play instead. To get started, go though Settings > Users and Accounts > Other and select Console Sharing and Offline Play.

This next screen and then lets you lot activate PS5 game sharing for the console you are currently using, past enabling Console Sharing and Offline Play, though if this was the get-go PS5 you signed in on then information technology should already be turned on as standard. Whichever organization y'all enable Console Sharing and Offline Play on, that will be able to run your games without being connected to the internet, though on whatsoever other PS5 you lot'll need to exist signed in online to access your library.

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