See, back in April of , Sony stopped letting retailers sell digital game download codes for full games. Purchases on the Store are immediately attached to your account. You can still buy DLC, virtual currency, add-ons, and season passes from retailers in digital form though, so gifting those is easy.
To get around this weird shift by Sony , the only way currently to gift a digital game to your friends is to buy a PlayStation Store Gift Card for the amount of the game, and send them the codes for the gift card. What do you think? Let us know down below in the comments or carry the discussion over to our Twitter or Facebook. Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. Click here for more. Connect with us. GameTechie Does the PlayStation 4 allow you to gift games to your friends?
You can also find games from the Sony website or on Amazon. Check the shipping options for your area. Shop for a game. Look for games that the person you are shopping for might like. Make sure to search for PS4 games or use this filter while shopping. Browse in different genres that you know they like.
Look up the genres of other games you know they play or have shown an interest in, and then browse in those genres. You can also look for popular or new releases. Add the PS4 game to your shopping cart and check out. Go to your cart and start the checkout process. Enter the shipping address. You can either enter the recipient's address to send it straight to them, or you can send it to your house so you can prepare the gift, or if need to give it in person.
On some websites, such as Amazon, you can indicate that the item you are buying is a gift. This usually means that they hide the price and include a message. Sometimes you have the option of including gift wrap [2] X Research source. Complete the purchase.
Enter the billing address, which may be different from the shipping address if you are sending the gift straight to the recipient. Enter your payment details and complete the purchase. Method 3. Go to a local game retailer. If you don't know of any, use Google Maps to find one by entering "video games" in the search bar and looking for results.
Look for a game to purchase. Browse in different genres that you know the recipient likes, or look at new and popular releases. If you are having a hard time knowing what to get, consider asking someone who works at the store for their opinion. They can often provide suggestions based on age or interest in other games.
Gift the game. Wrap it in gift wrap and gift it in person or through the mail. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Related wikiHows How to. From PlayStation 4, the games you acquire digitally can be shared with your friends. The titles will be associated with your account, but you can allow access to a friend without problems and they can enjoy it as if it were their own.
But be careful, do this only with people you trust , as they will have access to your PlayStation account. The steps you must follow to share the games are as follows:. As a negative point , we can only do this process with a single user. The most sensible thing if you are going to do this process is that you also activate the verification in two steps to add more security to your PlayStation account.
This is the method Sony wants you to use, the official way to do it. Although doing this you lose a bit of the magic that is supposed to give you a video game. For this we will have to get a prepaid PSN card. They can be purchased in many large supermarkets, hypermarkets and electronics stores.
Also on websites like Amazon or Fnac. You simply have to look at the price of the game on the PlayStation Store and buy a gift card that has a value equal to or greater than this. In Europe we have cards of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50 and euros.
If what you want to give is the typical triple A game, which has an approximate value of 70 euros, it is best to buy a 50 card and another for 20 or 25 euros.
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