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This article has been viewed 25, times. This wikiHow teaches you how to purchase a PS4 game as a gift for someone. You can buy a physical copy and gift it to them, or you can purchase a gift card for them to redeem on a game or games of their choice. Currently, Sony does not offer a way to gift a digital copy of a game [1] X Research source. Go to your favorite game retailer's website.
Search for "PS4 gift card". Select the value of your choice. Checkout and complete your purchase. Send the gift card code to your friend. Did this summary help you? Yes No.
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Go to the website of your favorite game retailer. The result with this method is identical to what we would do if we could give away PlayStation games directly, but the process is not at all attractive and Sony is probably losing a very interesting market by preventing users from giving away video games from its platform. There is one last way to gift games on PS4 and PS5, although we anticipate that it is a variant of the previous two methods, so do not expect much.
Of course, this procedure has more class and you can give the video game in question instead of a card with the value to redeem it. How to do it? The steps you must do are these:. Definitely, this barrier when it comes to giving away video games does not make much sense when a console without a disc player has been launched on the market, and therefore, without the possibility that users who have said console receive a game as a gift.
Giving video games to someone else is the modern equivalent of giving away a book. Sony is preventing it , when they have many tools in their hand so that users can give away games without losing them absolutely any right over the distribution of the titles. Sony should retract and simply allow a title to be gifted to another user from the PlayStation Store itself. It seems incredible that it has not already occurred to them. A button to give and then a list of friends to make the gift.
It would be an elegant solution that, although it would bring its associated problems account thefts, for example, but which could be avoided with the 2FA system , it would bring this function back to users without depending on any third party. Previous What to give for Christmas if you are a fan of Dune. Next Not sure what to eat?
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