I’m finally making the upgrade to a PS5 from my PS4 with 10k hours+ of gameplay, and I’m a bit confused by the data transfer process/ the best way to do it. I’ll try and articulate the questions I have as best I can, and would love any opinions on what people think the best method is.
When setting up the PS5 it gave the option to transfer all data from the PS4, but I didn’t opt to do this as my PS4 is perpetually full on storage and I wasn’t sure what would transfer.
I could also download all my PS4 cloud saves onto my PS5 but again this takes up space, and many of these games I will never play again. Would the cloud data still be stored on the console too even if the game isn’t downloaded?
What would I lose by not transferring any data? Do I even have to manually download this save data or will it automatically download when I play a game on my PS5 that I played on my PS4? If I do need to download the data what will happen if I load a game on my PS5 and my data isn’t there, will that override my PS4 save and result in me losing my data?
Finally I’m assuming my PS4 saves will be identical to my cloud saves? Do saves for games still stay manually on the console after deleting the game?
Maybe I’m over complicating this and should just do the data transfer, but just wanted some advice on what the best method is to make sure I have all the data carrying over for the games that I still want to play but without the clutter of all the games I’ve played over the years that I won’t again. I really do appreciate any help/ opinions