How to remove a game from PS4: instructions

Old consoles from the beginning of the 2000s could run games only from disks, and copy all the saves to an external memory card. Modern PS4 consoles are equipped with a built-in hard drive of 500 GB or 1 TB. New games are growing in size due to the high quality of textures, so even 1 TB may seem small. The only option is to remove the game from the PS4, which has not been launched for a long time or has already passed completely. In this article we will tell you how to do it.

Conditions

Since the console is able to function only when authorizing from a personal account, this allows you to delete games without consequences, download new ones, then old ones again and so on. This is because the preservation of progress, achievements, as well as purchased games and statistics are tied to your account, and not to hardware.

Even after replacing the console, the user will be able to log in using a personal account on another device, as a result, his entire library with purchased games will remain.

Step-by-step instruction

Let’s figure out how to remove a game from the library on the PS4:

1. We go to the main menu of the console.
2. Scroll all the positions to the right until the very end, until the item "Library" or Library appears if you are using the English version of the operating system.
3. In the table with all purchased and added games we find the one that needs to be deleted.
4. Using the "Options" button on the gamepad, we open an additional menu, which scrolls to the "Delete" or Delete.
5. We select this item and confirm the procedure by clicking on "OK".

After that, the selected game will disappear from your library. If we are talking about a paid application, then when you re-add to the same account you do not have to pay again.

Removing from a hard drive

Now let's talk about the procedure for deleting game files from the built-in hard drive. To do this, follow the instructions provided:

1. In the main menu of the console, open the "Settings" section.
2. Here we scroll through the list of sections to the item "Storage".
3. Select the hard drive on which the game is installed. There may be several of them in the list if an external drive is connected.
4. Select the file type "Applications".
5. Now a list with the names of all games and their volume on the hard drive will appear on the screen. Find the desired application and select the "Options" item.
6. A context menu will appear on the right, in which you need to select "Delete".

Now you know how to uninstall a PS4 game in two different ways. In the first case, it will disappear from the library, and in the second it will completely be deleted from the built-in hard drive.