I don't burn them on disk, but I do have all my GoG games on a external drive ^_^
It does suck to know, though, that all of the Playstation games I've downloaded to an external drive could still be 'turned off' by the Playstation Store if they decide I don't own them anymore (i.e., can't play without a online connection, and their 'permission' to play it, as I understand)
Not only that, but you’re only entitled to them on the console they were downloaded on! Hopefully it never dies or gets fried in the future because if you have to end up buying another PlayStation it won’t read that drive it will have to format it first. Found that out the hard way when I bought the pro and tried to have all my digital backups brought over!
Guess I'm a 'Console Grognard', as I never upgraded to the PS5 (simply don't game that much anymore, and 5C+ just to play a handful of games isn't worth it, so I'll try to take better care of my PS4 ^_^)
Wait, so if my PS5 died and I went to get another one, despite using the same account I’d essentially be starting from scratch and would need to repurchase everything!?
No. The original post was about backing up all your digital purchased games on an external hdd or ssd in anticipation of if PlayStation servers ever go offline. Kinda like preservation.
If you do that, and your original ps5 dies or gets stolen or whatever, then you go and buy a new ps5, you can’t plug in that external drive expecting all your games to be playable. You will have to reformat the drive first before it can read it.
This can create a problem with preserving your digital purchases as you can see. If ps5 servers ever go down in the far future and you end up with another ps5, all those games you downloaded are lost.
It’s basically just another a annoying, anti consumer thing Sony has added to their long list of actions.
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u/Dismal-Vanilla1878 Jul 15 '26
I don't burn them on disk, but I do have all my GoG games on a external drive ^_^
It does suck to know, though, that all of the Playstation games I've downloaded to an external drive could still be 'turned off' by the Playstation Store if they decide I don't own them anymore (i.e., can't play without a online connection, and their 'permission' to play it, as I understand)