RCU005
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I'm new to this, since I'm usually the only one at home that play video games. However, the doctor told my father to play some games because that would help him with a damaged nerve in his finger. He bought his own PS4 Pro and I told him not to worry about games because I could share mine with him.
After reading and searching, I realized that it's HIS console that I'd need to activate as MY primary in order to be able to share games. However, I still don't know what happens if I don't do that. (If anyone could explain it to me, I'll appreciate it).
So it got me thinking. If Sony knows we do that to share games, or maybe they actually designed it that way. I think they should change it so that we could have a better management when sharing games. If they DO let us share games anyway, even if it's just to one other console, maybe we could get an app or an option in settings to manage that.
I don't like the way it is now because, in my case, I don't live with my father. Also, it's weird that in order to share games your primary console is NOT the one that you use! IMO, with this setup, I'd never share a game outside my family (is that intended?).
Another weird thing -which I don't know if I'm right- but aren't primary consoles able to access everything on the account and console? So doing it for kids (for example), let them change whatever they want?
So do you have any ideas on how Sony and others could improve on this, specially since Sony is making an all-digital console, and Microsoft is rumored to have the Series X all-digital, too?
After reading and searching, I realized that it's HIS console that I'd need to activate as MY primary in order to be able to share games. However, I still don't know what happens if I don't do that. (If anyone could explain it to me, I'll appreciate it).
So it got me thinking. If Sony knows we do that to share games, or maybe they actually designed it that way. I think they should change it so that we could have a better management when sharing games. If they DO let us share games anyway, even if it's just to one other console, maybe we could get an app or an option in settings to manage that.
I don't like the way it is now because, in my case, I don't live with my father. Also, it's weird that in order to share games your primary console is NOT the one that you use! IMO, with this setup, I'd never share a game outside my family (is that intended?).
Another weird thing -which I don't know if I'm right- but aren't primary consoles able to access everything on the account and console? So doing it for kids (for example), let them change whatever they want?
So do you have any ideas on how Sony and others could improve on this, specially since Sony is making an all-digital console, and Microsoft is rumored to have the Series X all-digital, too?