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If you have multiple people in a household, each with their own Live/PSN/whatever account, you can buy one physical disc and it unlocks the game for everyone in
by cowpewter 8y ago
If you have multiple people in a household, each with their own Live/PSN/whatever account, you can buy one physical disc and it unlocks the game for everyone in the household. If you buy the digital version, it's locked to only whichever account bought it.
That's why I still prefer physical versions of games. Both me and my wife have our own separate accounts on the services.
- mikewhy 8y agoPS4 requires the physical disk in the drive to play. While yes you can simply share that copy with multiple people, they cannot play together simultaneously. With PSN you can have two people playing the one purchase of a game simultaneously.
- stordoff 8y agoPSN/Xbox Live unlocks it for the _console_ (as well as the user). I have 4 accounts on my PS4, and they can all access content purchased by the other accounts.
- cowpewter 8y agoHmm, something is not right with our setup then, because I have absolutely been blocked from playing games my wife has bought on her account on our PS4.
- luminiferous 8y agoYou have to set your particular console as your PSN account's "primary" console. When a console is set as your primary console, any other accounts on that console can use software that you have bought using your PSN account. However, I think only one account can have a particular console set as their "primary" console at a time, so if your PS4 is your account's primary console, then it cannot be your wife's account's primary console, meaning if she buys software, your account cannot access it. https://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps4/settings/activation.html https://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps4/settings/act...