How To Transfer Data To Ps4 Pro

Here's how you transfer your PS4 content to your PS4 Pro

Sometimes moving on can be hard, and waving a tearful goodbye to your erstwhile PS4 is a difficult decision to brand, but if you're upgrading to a PS4 Pro so there'southward no need to worry as Sony's carefree transfer system makes it simple to transfer your PS4 content to your PS4 Pro. The main thing you need to consider is exactly when you're going to start the process, equally the transfer takes quite a chip of fourth dimension to move all your data over – nosotros suggest setting things running overnight, when you're soundly asleep and not missing out on whatever gaming fourth dimension, only that's just our opinion. Read through the instructions beneath, and you can transfer your PS4 content to your PS4 Pro and go your shiny new console upwards and running.

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Make sure both your new PS4 Pro and your PS4 are connected to the internet

Showtime off, make certain you've continued your PS4 Pro to your Tv, switched it on, and signed into PSN. Your old PS4 should exist powered on, merely doesn't need to exist connected to a screen.

They can exist connected either via WiFi, or to your router using an ethernet cable. You'll need to keep a spare ethernet cable handle for one of the next steps.

In the PS4 Pro settings bill of fare yous'll find the "Transfer Data from Another PS4" selection. Click that to go started. You'll run into a splash screen telling you what you can and can't transfer, specifically users and settings, games and saved data, screenshots and video clips.

Connect both your new PS4 Pro and your old PS4 to your router with ethernet cables, or connect them to each other with just ane ethernet cable

There'southward 1 of two means you can do this next bit. Either you can use that spare ethernet cablevision we mentioned in a higher place to connect the PS4 Pro and your old PS4. Or yous can connect them both to the router using ane ethernet cable each. The transfer process is identical, so information technology's really upwards to you which method y'all use. Just make sure they're both turned on, ok?

Striking adjacent and your PS4 Pro will start looking.

In one case your Pro finds your old PS4 you'll need to printing the power button on the old panel for one 2d to identify information technology.

Once the Pro finds your original PS4 it'll analyze the accounts being copied over, and tell yous you'll need to sync your bays data afterwards.

Decide what you want to re-create over

In one case yous've identified the PS4 and accounts y'all want to copy, you'll have the choice of selecting what y'all really want to transfer. Chances are you'll take everything, but in example you desire a choice you lot tin can selection and choose betwixt games, saved data, capture, themes and settings.

Then it'll ask y'all if you want to activate your PS4 Pro as your main PS4. Select yep. If there are multiple users, select the ones you want this to be the primary PS4 for.

Finally: expect

You'll take to look a while depending on how much stuff y'all have to transfer. In my instance I had 350GB to copy over so, with an estimated time of ix hours, I left it running over night. Don't forget that your PS4 controller (opens in new tab) will switch off in that fourth dimension.

In the morning I switched the PS4 Pro on and everything was there, right down to settings changes I'd fabricated to the Share button and the incorrect time from when I was trying to trigger hidden endings in the Resident Evil vii Beginning Hour demo. All perfectly copied over, ready for you to first enjoying your new PS4 Pro console.

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Louise Blain is a journalist and broadcaster specialising in gaming, applied science, and entertainment. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 3's monthly Sound of Gaming show and has a weekly consumer tech slot on BBC Radio Scotland. She can also be found on BBC Radio iv, BBC Five Live, Netflix United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland's YouTube Channel, and on The Evolution of Horror podcast. Too as her work on GamesRadar, Louise writes for NME, T3, and TechRadar. When she's non working, you lot can probably notice her watching horror movies or playing an Assassin's Creed game and getting distracted past Photo Mode.