PSN Restored, Sharing Dropped To Two

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[drop2]As we said a little while back, the PlayStation Network sharing system has been dropped from five accounts down to two as part of yesterday’s PSN downtime.

Also previous purchases and download vouchers will still work with whoever you shared them with, as from today anything you buy or redeem will be locked to just the two machines.

There’s a caveat: it’s two PSPs/Vitas and two PS3s per download, which makes sense.

You can now also deactivate consoles online for the first time, something that previously required access to the console in question which – as you’ll no doubt know if you were in this situation – isn’t always possible.

We assume this will all be welcomed by developers and publishers – “no game-sharing please” said PixelJunk’s Dylan Cuthbert to us once, and he certainly won’t be the only one to lose out to people ‘splitting the cost’ of games.

We’ve also heard rumblings that the – well – er, that’s all off the record.

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73 Comments

  1. I am confused[what is new] lol It should have the PS3 serial number next to ‘My PS3 system 1, 2’ etc etc of each console? I will leave it & if 1 day i need to do it i.e i get another PS3 i will try it. Excellent feature anyway[it should of been ready on day 1 really]

    • easy thing to do is deactivate all the ps3 you have connected to your account, then go on to the ps3 you have a home and active it in the account settings on xmb.Also you can activate a ps3 by signing into psn on the ps3 with your account and then download something from the store and it will activate the ps3 you just downloaded from.I did mine this morning got rid of the 4 ps3 on my account and just have the one now,you still cant deactivate videos or sing star tracks from the machine first used to buy them with.

      • edit… also you can rename the ps3 from my ps3 to whatever you want i.e downstairs ps3 or bedroom ps3 and such..mine is murphy and my daughters psp is ed209…lol

      • Hi, did you deactivate them all this morning, then reactivate your current PS3(s) then?

        I want to do this but wanted to see if someone else has done it successfully? Thanks

      • yeah done it this morning before school run…now have 1 ps3 and 1 psp on account…everything ok

      • Thanks mate – I was worried the re-activation wouldn’t work then I’d be left with none! :(

        Sometimes there are teething problems with this kind of thing!!

  2. Will there be plans to allow deactivation of video devices? My movies are still on my old YLOD 60gb, but as I understand it you can only have one PS3 active for movies. :(

    • By the looks of the site you can already deactivate film, comics and music but you have to them all separately

  3. For some reason I have six activated, I do wish though I knew whose was what. Is there anyway of finding that out

    • Now way of finding out. FWIW, you have 6 devices activated for GAME content. For example 3 x PS3 & 3 x PSP etc….also, these devices do not have their activations deactivated when formatting or in the case of PS3s replacing HDDs etc…I racked up multiple activations on my single PSP because I never deactivated when formatting.

      • Thanks, guess I will just deactivate the lot then and go from there.

  4. Sounds like this is really messy and can get worse. If I’m right:
    You deactivate all accounts online.
    Then when a system connects to the PSN you can reactivate it.
    So what’s stopping people who have game shared from someone else, just logging back into the PSN and re-activating the system, they’re allready going to have the password?

  5. Well, as usual Sony has made a complete mess at implementing something. The website constantly asks me to log back in after two clicks, there’s no FAQ and there’s no option to deactivate single consoles.

    It’ll probably eventually work but I don’t really care for now.

  6. Brilliant little feature! just deactivated mine!

  7. Whats the last sentance about. Seems to be getting skipped over a bit here. And I am intrigued.

  8. I want to deactivate my old 80GB YLOD but now I’m getting Server Maintenance.

  9. This just means I’m going to buy less. Previously I would buy games that I could share with my 2 brothers to play on multiplayer. Now I just wont buy them.

    33% of something is better than 100% of nothing. Yet another knife in the Golden Goose IMO.

  10. could someone gimme a link to deactivate the ps3 website

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