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r/gaming•
RealisticDifficulty

Is there a way to double-check, on your console, which ps4 games you have loaned to someone else?

Not a biggie but I loaned my bro some games and was absent-mindedly told he needed to sell some games for cash. I just hope they aren't mine, but I'm not gonna make a big deal out of it... yet, lol.

I know if you look at a game on your console it has a faded disk in the thumbnail, but that only applies if it's been downloaded. I checked the library on the console, looked over the un-downloaded games, and there's no way to tell if it was downloaded via a disk.

If there's no way then why do I have to keep inserting a disk everytime I wanna play a physical copy, huh Sony? hahahah.

For real though, I lent out like 4 games and can only remember Dragon Age Inquisition (I kinda wanna get back into that one too).

Posted Dec 18, 2020, 3:08 AM UTC

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EricCarr94•

You could try clicking on each game and seeing which ones just boot up and which ones ask for a disk

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RealisticDifficultyOP•

Yeah, I was thinking I'm going to have to do that.
It's gonna take an age, since I add all ps plus games incase I change my mind about them later. But it's better than going home planning to pick a few games up, then not finding it and wondering if it's floating around the house somewhere or my bro has it.

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Wolfboy702•

The games are downloaded to the PS4 because it can’t physically pull the data off of them fast enough to run using the disk, there’s too much of it. After installation the disk is pretty much just used as a badge of ownership.

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[deleted]•

You expect the PS4 to keep track of what physical discs you give to other people?

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RealisticDifficultyOP•

I thought it would have a different id type or something.

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benagain300•

PS2 games floated around my neighborhood like candy it felt like you never knew who really owned what game everybody played em lol

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kevlist1•

It's not up to Sony or any system other than you to remember what games you loaned out lol Jesus people just want technology to do the most simplest tasks for them , il tell you what Sony will get right on your problem when they get round to implementing a system to tell me when to eat.

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RealisticDifficultyOP•

A disk, faded or not, is built-in to the thumbnail if the game is installed. The console already tracks it.
Don't be such a dick.

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