How to sell ps4
4 THINGS YOU SHOULD DO BEFORE SELLING YOUR PS4 in 2022, 2023 and BEYOND!
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hey what's up everybody this is Becca
gaming junkie thanks for checking out
the video today I'm going to be
discussing four things that you should
really do before selling your ps4 your
console to a stranger something probably
people have never thought about but
these are just four of the things that
you should be doing just don't sell your
console without doing them there I said
it
let's go alright so one of the first
things you should be doing of the four
things you should do before selling your
ps4 make backups of your save games
that's step one so to do this we will
need to go to settings and we're going
to be going down to application saved
data management and that's where we go
into there and then you'll see some
additional options of which you will
click on save data in system storage so
we click on that save data in system
storage we'll get a couple new options
and with that we can make either a
choice to save it to the upload to
online storage which is the cloud it's a
cloud service that PlayStation Network
offers or copy it to the USB storage
device both work very similar I believe
there's a 10 gigabyte storage limit on
the cloud I believe don't quote me on it
I don't remember
if you wanted to do that you can click
on that click on select all and then
click on upload and setup through an
online cloud there's also the option to
copy to the USB storage device instead
just click on copy to USB storage device
you'll see the same exact menu click on
the options button select all and click
on copy it might take a few moments to
copy the entire content to the drive but
that's it and you're done you've done
now you back up either to the online
cloud or to your thumb guys now the
second thing you want to do here is step
to deactivating the ps4 from your PSN
account and to do this we'll go back
into settings and then go back down to
account management and in account
management find where it says activate
as your primary ps4 in here once you
click it you have the option to click on
deactivate it will give you a whole wall
of text as to what will happen once you
deactivate the console you're doing it
just for your own security purposes it's
gonna delete wipe out access to that
console in regards to your own PSN
account because some other stranger will
have it so you don't want them accessing
anything if that were possible and here
we are with step 3 wiping out erase
format the ps4 harddrive and factory
reset so here is where we're going to be
going into settings again and all the
way down to the bottom of the menu and
there should be something called
initialize
and you click on that and it will go
into this initialization process of
which it will try to take that hard
drive and completely and utterly evasive
so that nothing is left click on that
and you get a quick option or the full
option now the click option is not as
thorough as the full option so since
we're getting rid of it and for selling
it to a stranger you want to do the
complete and full wiping out of all your
data on that drive it is takes probably
a good I don't know an hour hour and a
half maybe but that is something that
you really want to do since you're
giving it again to a stranger so you'll
never see this drive again and so it's
better to be safe than sorry
and that way also would be entire
console factory lease debt so once it
reboots there will be back up and
running and you will see nothing
they'll just be an option to sign in a
new account and finally step number four
is dusting off the ps4 the controller
unplug all cables and verify that all
the ps4 hardware content is present
before you start packing it up maybe
verify that whatever game that went with
the bundle is also present these are
just common things that need to happen
definitely disclosed to the buyer if
things are missing it's always a good
thing to be transparent and upfront
about what's missing if there is
something missing and just generally
pack it all up together make sure it's
all in one place and
off you go you sold your ps4 to a
stranger and you've done all the
necessary precautions to safeguard your
account and your data and that was it
for today's video the four things that
you want to do before selling off your
ps4 to a stranger hope it was
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