We're upgrading our 3 aging PS2's at work to PS3's today, to get GT5 and other games, and seeing as I have a PS3 at home, a few questions come to mind:
- Can we create profiles for the people that will play and have them exist on all the 3 PS3's?
- Can I take my home profile and use it on those 3 PS3?
- Would I need to keep it on a USB stick (assuming that is even possible)?
- Can I "download" it onto the machines?
- What about ranks in games such as Call of Duty Black Ops, would that follow my profile or be locked to one of the machines?
Basically I would like to play with my own profile regardless of which of those 3 PS3's I'm sitting at, and I would guess that many at work would want their own profile to play with too, without that being locked to a single PS3 either. For instance, it wouldn't be much fun if the profile of two of the players that want to play together only exists on the same PS3.
Hope I was being clear what I wanted.
Best Answer
Your Playstation Network (PSN) account can be simultaneously associated with five PS3 machines. So to answer the questions:
Yes, each person could have a user profile associated with their PSN account on each of the 3 PS3s. You would be able to use your existing home profile.
Information kept on the PSN servers (trophies, list of your purchases) is automatically kept in sync between PS3s using the same PSN ID (note - you would need to ensure that trophies are synced to the server by visiting the Trophies menu item in the XMB). However information kept locally (save games, downloaded files) would not be synced. I think you can transfer most saved games using a USB stick as long as you only play them with the same account.
Rankings are stored on servers and associated with your PSN ID, so should work fine, although you may need to copy your save games across in order to use the same character profile.