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If you’re getting a PS5 today and want to transfer PS4 games to it, I can’t convince you how fast it will be to use a LAN cable. Seriously, do it.
Moving games, saving data and user profiles from the old to the new Sony console is a fairly simple process, as our guide on the PS4-PS5 data transfer process shows, but it can also be slow if you choose to go the wireless route.
I was lucky enough to get a PS5 yesterday and immediately set about putting my PS4 games in progress on the new hardware. I turned on my PS4 and PS5, made sure I was successfully logged into both, connected them to the same network, started the data transfer app, and because I was too lazy to find an ethernet cable and then connect it twice – chose the wi-fi transfer process.
I had chosen Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Fall Guys, Overwatch, Fuser, FIFA 21, and Marvel’s Avengers (I know, I know) to transfer – that is, several hundred gigabytes of data, in total. Setting up the wi-fi transfer gave me bad news: It would be a full 27 hours before all my games broke through.
Fortunately, my laziness ranks second after my impatience. I unraveled the rat king of cables that I boxed for just such an occasion, found a suitable one, hooked it up to the back of both consoles, and set up the process again in exactly the same way. My old games were on my new console in less than 3 hours.
This is not revealing news, we all know that wired connections are more efficient than wireless, I just didn’t expect it to be that much more efficient. If you’re getting your PS5 today, consider this a dated PSA logline: ‘If you can, use a cable’.
One problem that’s harder to solve is the amount of space those games take up – my PS5 is almost full already. Fortunately, that storage space is one of the few problems we encountered with Sony’s new machine, as you can discover in our brilliant PS5 review.
Joe Skrebels is IGN’s executive news editor. Follow him on Twitter. Do you have any advice for us? Do you want to discuss a possible story? Send an email to [email protected].
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