I'm on my 4th PS3 now. I started out with a backward compatible 80GB deals waaaay back when. But right when The Force Unleashed II came out, my system died. So, I packaged it up, sent it to Sony and swapped it for a PS3 Slim. I had that for several more years until it started to show it's age and was making alot of noise:
Since I had swapped the 120GB HDD awhile ago for a 1TB drive, I really didn't need anything fancy, so I decided to sell this one and then replace with a PS3 Super Slim 12GB version that Wal-Mart was unloading for $150. So I did, but then I ended up with with this (you can fast forward to the 1:10 min mark to hear it really kick in, and excuse my mess, I was pulling cords and moving stuff around to see if there was some other issue)
So I ended swapping this one out as well and now I have a good PS3. So last night I attempted to download some games that are tied to my account but unfortunately, PSN only lets you authorize two PS3s to run your digital content, I was unable to do so. The nice message lets me know that it's easy to resolve, I simply need to deauthorize my old PS3s. Easy right?
Not so much. The only way to deauthorize yourself is to do it from the actual PS3 itself, but I couldn't do that since I didn't have the PS3 anymore.
As it turns out, it wasn't too hard to resolve. 15 min on chat with PlayStation support and I was back in business. My downloads work now and my new PS3 so super quiet.
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Activation/de-activation of PlayStation systems has been a thing at least since around 2009/2010. This is also true for PSP and PS4s.
ReplyDeleteThis link is where you can deactivate any PlayStation system that your PSN account is associated with: https://account.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/liquid/cam/devices/device-list.action?category=psn&displayNavigation=false
In hindsight as I've been thinking about this it really does make sense. I was originally thinking that it was and extra step that was unnecessary given that I'm obviously logged in. However, since other family members on that same console can use those games on their profile (even if they only have an account on my PS3, not a PSN account) if they didn't do that, I could go log in to all my friends PS3s and download the game for their use.
DeleteIt would be nice if they would let you manage it yourself though.