How easy is it to migrate from one PS3 to another?

[noiseredux]

Just wondering... if you had a PS3 and then got another one how easy is it to get your PSN account, downloaded games, saves, etc onto the new PS3?

[irixith]

Easy!

Be sure to sign into account management via the web, and de-activate your existing PS3 before you sell it. Remove your PSN account details as well of course. You can copy your saves to a USB device. Then just sign in to your account on the new PS3, and download your purchases from the store, and copy over your saves from your USB stick.

[dsheinem]

You can copy MOST OF your saves to a USB device.

Fixed that. I just tried copying saves from one PS3 to another, and some games seem to prohibit you from doing that via a USB stick.

There is an application on the XMB for transfering everything from one PS3 to the other. Use that, and (I think) you'll get everything.

[Stark]

Easy!

Be sure to sign into account management via the web, and de-activate your existing PS3 before you sell it. Remove your PSN account details as well of course. You can copy your saves to a USB device. Then just sign in to your account on the new PS3, and download your purchases from the store, and copy over your saves from your USB stick.

How do you do this? Is it possible if your old PS3 died? I tried to download a trailer on my new PS3 the other day and it said "nope", something about another PS3 was activated on this account or something.

[irixith]

How do you do this? Is it possible if your old PS3 died? I tried to download a trailer on my new PS3 the other day and it said "nope", something about another PS3 was activated on this account or something.

You would do it here:

https://store.playstation.com/login.gvm

I didn't realize they'd pulled it offline again. I'm not sure it's accessible through account management on the PS3 itself, I've never tried.

[Stark]

Just wondering... if you had a PS3 and then got another one how easy is it to get your PSN account, downloaded games, saves, etc onto the new PS3?

Are you doing this to move to a PS3 with hardware backwards compatibility? If you are, I would be very careful. I suspect that mine died due to the PS2 chip.

[noiseredux]

Are you doing this to move to a PS3 with hardware backwards compatibility? If you are, I would be very careful. I suspect that mine died due to the PS2 chip.

POSSIBLY. I'm investigating the possibility of a BC model. Why do you think it died BECAUSE of the PS2 chip?

[Stark]

Are you doing this to move to a PS3 with hardware backwards compatibility? If you are, I would be very careful. I suspect that mine died due to the PS2 chip.

POSSIBLY. I'm investigating the possibility of a BC model. Why do you think it died BECAUSE of the PS2 chip?

Because when I opened it up there were black scorch marks around what I think is the PS2 chip. I could be wrong, I never verified that the chip that was scorched was in fact the PS2 chip. One min, I'll go look at a picture of the motherboard.

EDIT: Here's a pic with the chip in question circled in red.

[noiseredux]

you probably had a launch model, right? The 20GB or 60GB? I'm under the impression that the "software BC" revision models were more dependable. I think those came in what? 40GB and 80GB flavors or something?

[the7k]

I've heard that save files that you couldn't transfer over normally (specifically, Demon's Souls) CAN be transferred if you have PSN Plus, as you can apparently upload save files to the Cloud and then redownload them after the switch.