Topic: Same PSN for another PS4

Hi guys I just want to ask you a few questions.

I'm getting a Pro for Christmas and I just wonder can I have the same psn account on the ps4 as my original ps4?

I'm not gonna bother transfering data from my old ps4 to my new one but I just want to know if my disc games will work fine on my new ps4 bar obviously loosing all my data and having to start from scratch.

Thanks in advance.

I am not 100% sure about it but I think you can only have one account per system. Like one on one PS4, Vita or PS3. You can use it as a guest account I think like if you were going to use your account to get trophies and such on a friend's PS4 at his place. But honestly I have no idea how it works.

I have a Pro and a base ps4 active in my house, and use my same psn profile on both of them. My family members all have their own accounts as well, and use their own accounts on both systems. I can use the ps+ cloud to upload saves from one machine and download them to the other.

For digital games, one of them is your primary machine, and on that machine anyone can use any of your digital content. On the non-primary machine only you can use your digital content.

For disc based games, should be no issue to swap between them.

@PlaytendoGuy: you can log into any PS4 with your PSN account, even ones you don't own - i've logged onto friends' machines in order to play local co-op etc. it's no different to PS3 in that regard - i have three PS3s, and all use the same PSN id. the difference is that, as mega-gazz says, only one PS4 can be activated as your primary console - this effectively prevents the same kind of digital game-sharing that went on on PS3 when you could have had 5 activated (later reduced to 2).

if you have PS+, you can upload your game save data to the cloud, and then download it on another PS4. you might be able to transfer it to a USB stick and then copy it as well, i've not tried it though. this will allow you to keep the game progress from one PS4 to another. for disc based games, it should be just be a case of swapping the disc between one console and the other - however, only the primary activated console will allow all accounts to access multiplayer/network features (so long as one of the accounts has PS+). on the non-primary console, only individual accounts with PS+ can use multiplayer/networks features.