We tell you everything you need to do before selling your PS4 so as not to take risks and that the buyer does not find saved games or more sensitive data, such as personal information or any type of file that we do not want them to see. This is how the PS4 is left as new to sell it second-hand.
The second-hand market for games and consoles is almost a constant since the industry began. Buy a second-hand console is the most usual, but before we had to keep the memory card to have our data and, now, is something more complicated. That's why we're going to show you what to do before selling your second-hand PS4 without taking risks.
And is that it is not as simple as taking the PS4, unplug it from the current and sell it, there are a series of steps, and precautions, that we must give before selling it both to a store and to a private individual. Maybe you wonder why you want to get rid of your PS4, and the reason may not be that you have tired of it, but you want to make the leap to a PS4 Pro.
Therefore, here's what you should do before selling your second-hand PS4 without taking risks. And let's start with the saved games.
Save PS4 games on a pen drive
If you have a pen drive by hand, it is the safest way to copy the saved games of PS4. To move our games saved from games to a pen drive, all you have to do is:
- Go to '' Settings ''.
- There, search '' Management of the saved data of the application.
- We go to '' Data stored in the system storage '' and select '' Copy to the USB storage device ''.
- We select the games that we want to save.
- Check the box of the files you want to copy and select '' Copy ''.
With this, we will have saved our PS4 games on a USB pen drive.
Save PS4 games online in PS Plus
There is another more automatic method to save our saved games of PS4 before selling the console. It's about the cloud storage of PS Plus.
The only thing we have to do to save the games of the PS4 in the cloud is to follow the following steps:
- Go to '' Settings ''.
- There, search '' Management of the saved data of the application.
- We go to '' Data stored in the system storage '' and select '' Upload to online storage ''
- We select the game or app that we want to save.
- We mark the box that appears next to each of the saved files that we want to upload and select '' Load ''.
It's that easy to have our data of the saved games of PS4 in the cloud.
Make a backup copy of the PS4 data
Before going on to see how to leave the PS4 as new before selling it, if you are going to switch to a PS4 Pro, you are interested in making a backup copy of all the data. So, basically, when you start the new console you will have all the files and games of the previous one.
- Make sure you have synchronized the trophies. Go to '' Trophies '', press the Options button and choose the option '' Synchronize with PlayStation Network ''.
- Enter the USB storage device in which you want to make the backup on one of the USB ports of PS4.
- Select '' Settings '', '' System '' and then '' Backup and restore ''.
- Confirm the data you want to copy. If you choose not to copy the applications, you will have to download or install them again when you restore the backup copies you are creating.
- On the next screen you can customize the name of the backup. When you have done this, point to '' Create a backup copy '' and press '' X ''.
- A progress bar with the current state of the backup will appear. You can cancel it in any moment.
It is very easy to make a backup copy of all the PS4 data. The only thing you have to take into account is that, obviously, the external HDD must have sufficient capacity and the format must be FAT32 or exFAT.
Date update on 2019-03-19. Date published on 2019-03-19. Category: hackers Author: Oscar olg Fuente: hobbyconsolas