Users Reporting PS4 Error CE-34878-0 Is Deleting Game Saves

A number of PS4 owners have taken to the official PlayStation forums expressing concern about error CE-34878-0, which could be linked to corrupting game saves causing people to lose progress. However in the same thread others are reporting that they haven’t received the error, but their saves are gone.

The error code itself seems to appear when a game crashes and boots you back to the main menu. Sony has given some advice first advising people to download any game patches before starting a game, but if the error still occurs then to back up all saves to the cloud and initialise the system which puts it back to factory settings.

We’ll keep an eye on any further advice, and would also like to hear if you have been affected by the crash or lost saves.

Source: PS Forums via CVG

35 Comments

  1. I had this happen to me with Battlefield and Lego Mavel

    • wow you managed to save battlefield ….
      five times now i have started the damn campaign and not once as it saved..(ps3)..and the new update was a doozy..
      spent most of a match underneath the map the other day..

    • I’ve just realised it’s nerfed my save 3 times on BF4. Bugger.

  2. Marvel*

  3. had a lot of problems last night with battlefield not loading and getting code with a lot of 888’s. not sure about deleting save files but if it removes my K/D ratio i wont be too bothered!

  4. This happened dozens of times on BF4. Given up on the campaign twice now…

    • Same here. This is my third time through battlefield and each time I get a little bit further. However if it happens again, I will not be starting again.

      • Same here, I have given up after the fourth replay of the campaign. I will not start for the fifth time.

    • 5 times now for me each time i play it the first dog tag returns yet its available for my online soldier.weird

  5. Battlefield 4 losing saves on the campaign isn’t specific to PS4, my mates lost his campaign 3 times and ive also read similar problems on pc and 360.

    • 3 times on xbox one I meant.

      • Happening across all platforms. Not just our almighty Playstations…

  6. My Son is having trouble with BF4 but nothing else. Apparently, logging out of PSN, booting the game, then logging back into PSN may be a work around. I don’t think he’s tried that yet though (he’s supposed to be revising).

  7. Happens in Beta-field 4, only game its happened though. Not surprising though, that game still hasn’t been finished.

    • I’ve noticed that all the bugs they said the latest patch was supposed to fix, haven’t been fixed, which leaves me wandering what the hell the patch did actually do. Luckily they’re all minor bugs.
      I also wish you could change just the melee button. e.g. Am I the only person who pushes the right stick to hard and accidentally tries to stab someone who’s about 20ft away instead of shooting them leaving them to empty a whole magazine in me??? It’s god damn annoying!

      • ha ha, I changed mine so its now the circle, which means I hardly ever get a melee kill unless its from behind.

        The patches they have done are pretty much useless and the last one has caused major rubberbanding and lag on a lot of Conquest Large maps, its so frustrating.

      • You can swap the crouch and melee buttons round (R3 and O on PS4/PS3), I think it is called Veteran or something, but that is the best you can do.

      • Might try swapping them tonight although now I’m used to the new way so every time I want to crouch I’ll probably end up swinging my knife around like a mad man.

  8. Oh dear, although this might be the best example yet of benefits of cloud saves.

  9. The Battlefield 4 Saga is amazing. How much more can one game take?!

    • not enough!!!…screw EA and Dice and screw Infinity Ward with your skanky CoD
      two of the years biggest shooters and they are both utter garbage..

  10. Thinking about it, I think I may have had this error code a couple of nights back. I haven’t checked my single player campaign save game but knowing my luck it’s probably doomed. Luckily I just play online most of the time. I’ve only played the main campaign mode once which surprisingly seems quite good.

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