Playstation Network Downloadables can be used 5 times...

[MrHealthy]

I would never download games on PSN for that reason. Maybe the exclusives, but I would give it much more thought than to buying games on XBLA, since there the games are tied to your account.

PSN games are tied to your account. Your account can then be tied to 5 systems. You can remove a system activation whenever you want though (unless you no longer have the system, then you need to call customer service).

[env963]

I think you can download it more then 5 times, its just you can only tie it to 5 different machines. I think you could download a game 15 times to the same machine if you wanted to.

[jfrost]

What about the Live account, can you log in it on any machine, like Steam?

[Breetai]

Im against it as well, I was just curious if it was possible cause I know people who claim it works. Thats cool about unregistering a system, but my question is why do you have a US and Japanese ps3?

I lived in Japan when it was released, so I bought a Japanese PS3. Then I got another when I came here. I got rid of the Japanese PS3. Then the US PS3 broke (long story that I don't want to get into...), so I bought one of the new slim PS3s. I also bought a PSP recently. So, that is four systems I have some games on (PS1 and PC Engine). Since I am only using two of them, I wanted to know if I could free up the other two systems. Now I know that I can, by calling customer support.

I think you can download it more then 5 times, its just you can only tie it to 5 different machines. I think you could download a game 15 times to the same machine if you wanted to.

Yup, you can download the same game infinite times on the up to five systems it is tied to. It is the number of systems that is limited, not the amount of times you can download.

I would never download games on PSN for that reason. Maybe the exclusives, but I would give it much more thought than to buying games on XBLA, since there the games are tied to your account.

As has been said, the games are tied to your account. There is no reason not to download PSN games.

[D.D.D.]

When I sold my 1st PS3 I decided to format the machine as not to give my PSN games away to whomever bought it. When I got ready to format, it warned me to deactivate the PSN account (and listed how to do so on the same warning page). So there is a way to do it on the PS3 but I can't recall how; gotta be online too.

[Breetai]

When I sold my 1st PS3 I decided to format the machine as not to give my PSN games away to whomever bought it. When I got ready to format, it warned me to deactivate the PSN account (and listed how to do so on the same warning page). So there is a way to do it on the PS3 but I can't recall how; gotta be online too.

Yeah, I just formatted the hard drive and that was that. I do not recall any warning about deactivating the PSN account.

In fact, I might have just took the hard drive out without formatting and replaced it with the original hard drive that didn't have a thing installed on them (both systems had replaced hard drives on the same day I got them).

[D.D.D.]

When I sold my 1st PS3 I decided to format the machine as not to give my PSN games away to whomever bought it. When I got ready to format, it warned me to deactivate the PSN account (and listed how to do so on the same warning page). So there is a way to do it on the PS3 but I can't recall how; gotta be online too.

Yeah, I just formatted the hard drive and that was that. I do not recall any warning about deactivating the PSN account.

In fact, I might have just took the hard drive out without formatting and replaced it with the original hard drive that didn't have a thing installed on them (both systems had replaced hard drives on the same day I got them).

I'd have to check but I believe it was the system restore feature actually. One of the data clearing methods in the system menu for sure. Might have to do with the OS version your system has/had - I was on 3.41 I think.