Topic: Two PS5s in one family household

My family is the lucky owner of two PS5 systems. One in the living room and the other in my oldest sons bedroom. He got a PS5 for Christmas.

We used to have a ps4 and a ps5 in the house, and both my sons could play games purchased with my ps account at the same time on the two consoles.
I can not get it to work with two PS5s.

Can you help us?

@CookieBlaster Hi

What used to be called "the primary console" is now called "console sharing and offline play" on PS5. Otherwise the process is the same:

• One one console you need to be logged in with the account that owns the games and have this disabled
• One the other you need to enable this for that account but log in to play games with another user (of course you can still use that account but not at the same time as on the other console).
• You can also have Primary Console still enabled for the account on PS4 if you still have it, so you can actually play all the games on 3 consoles (each account can have Console Sharing enabled on one PS5 in addition to a Primary PS4)

@Voltan does the primary account need to sign into PSN too ? or can the primary account just log into the console offline ?

@nomither6 yeah, if the console is set as primary for an account (or has console sharing enabled on PS5), that account can play their own games offline
I actually still have my old PS4 set as primary - I sold it to a friend but left my account (PIN-protected so they can't log in as me) on it so they could play some of my games and use my PS+ for online.

Sorry if I'm a little slow here.

I'm looking at getting my wife her own ps5 tomorrow, can she access all the games I have digitally downloaded on my PS5 on the same network? She'll have her own PS sub so she can play online stuff.

I'm curious of the process of it all.

@Silhouette35
1. Set up a new PSN account for her if she doesn't have one (or simply log in if she does)
2. Add another user on her PS5 and log in with your account
3. Go to user settings and enable "Console sharing and offline play" on your account, on her console
4. Download the games using your account
5. Log out and let her log in with her user, she will now be able to play the games. I'm not 100% sure but I don't even think she needs her own PS+ sub if it's set up like this.