How to download save data on a ps4

What went wrong? I found the article confusing. The article is out of date. Thank you! Need help? Contact our support specialists. Contact PlayStation Support. Back to PlayStation. Age restricted. If you want to share your game save with a friend, you will not be able to do it, no matter how innocent your intentions are. The system is locked down to prevent game save sharing. There are a few documented cases where the system can be tricked into accepting a different game save, but for most people this is impossible.

Yes, you can. The section above will explain how to backup game save data to a USB stick. You will be unable to use this game saves for PC versions of the games, unfortunately. The information is unique to the PS4. You may find that for the majority of games, save game data can not be shared across user accounts.

Game saves are tied to user accounts to prevent this from happening. You can also use the network storage to transfer game save data between PS4 consoles if you have PS Plus. The instructions above will explain how to achieve this. The same rules around account locking apply as they do when copying from USB. This is not possible, unfortunately.

Xbox and PlayStation have different operating systems and different methods of storing data. The game saves that each console uses is unique. Even if it was the same, Sony does not allow game saves to be shared between user accounts, so you would be unable to use it regardless.

Nerdburglars Gaming. Stream Status : Loading Share on Facebook. Leave A Reply. Select a game or application. Place a tick next to each save file that you wish to download, or choose Select All , and select Download. Was this article helpful? What went wrong? I found the article confusing. The article is out of date. Thank you! Need help? Contact our support specialists. Contact PlayStation Support. Back to PlayStation.