PS4 – How to Check Playtime on PS4 Without PS Plus

No. Content licenses are bound to the account that activated them. Once the PSN+ account laps, it defaults to a standard PSN account, the free games that were licensed would then be invalid on that system for all accounts. But, any games you had actually purchased, even at a discount price would still be available for all accounts (unless you also removed the account from the system).

The only way to be able to play those games again would be to either renew your subscription to the account that originally downloaded them, or just buy them under the alternate account.

Specifically in regards to your question though. Any "free" games that you downloaded on your UK profile would have to be re-purchased by the US profile to re-aquire them. The only way you would be able to have them free for the US profile is if you had also had a paid US account concurrent to your UK account and had activated the game when (or if) it had been available for that account.

I know you may think this is stupid but remember, the free games are a perk for paid subscribers for that region. If you no longer subscribe to that region then you are no longer eligible for the perks.

Your data is tied to your PlayStation account, not the physical hardware. Otherwise, a fried motherboard could cost years of time spent.

You need to follow the same directions for upgrading the hard drive in your PS4, except you will be replacing the whole console, not just the hard drive:

Upgrade PS4 HDD

• You can sync your save data on the cloud if you have a PlayStation Plus account (the one you pay money for each month).

• You can sync your save data locally using a USB stick.

• You will need to reinstall your games on the new console to include downloading those massive updates again unless you back up to a larger USB storage medium, such as a USB hard drive. Unless you have one laying around, that is a lot of money to spend when you can just have the new console update overnight while you sleep.

Any DLC (e.g. The Taken King) or digitally-purchased content such as buying a game or other app in the PlayStation store as opposed to the physical disc is tied to your account. Once you set up the new console with your existing account and you are connected to the Internet you can go to "library" and select it to download it.

I upgraded my PS4's hard drive very recently and have been through the backup/restore process. It took a while to reinstall and update everything, but the process was very easy, and none of my save games were missing or broken. I have all of my paid content available, including games I bought digitally. The process is not very intimidating and they make it easy even for nontechnical people.