Thanks to our tutorial you will learn to delete games or applications from your PS4 for free up storage space, something necessary if we have many games installed (both in physical and digital format) and if our console is only 500 GB or even 1TB, somewhat scarce space that will fill up quickly over time thanks to game installations (increasingly heavy), their updates and patches or expansions. Therefore, below we show you how to remove and uninstall games from your Playstation 4.
How to delete games from PlayStation 4
Before starting the tutorial, we must be clear about several aspects; The first of them is that the saved games of games are stored separately, so if you delete or uninstall a PS4 game, its saved games will be kept and you can continue with them when you reinstall the games. On the other hand, if you delete digital games from your PlayStation 4 you can download them again without having to buy them again, since at the same time buy a game from PS Store It is registered in your profile, with the possibility of downloading it again as many times as you want while it is still available in the PlayStation 4 store. Let's see, now, yes, how to delete a game PS4.
How to delete games and apps from PS4
turn on your PS4 and access your profile. Select the game or application that you want to delete through the main menu of the console or in the digital library of your profile, located to the far right of the main games and apps menu.
Once you have selected the game you want to delete, press the button Options of the control knob DualShock 4 from PS4; It is the button located in the central right part of the controller under its own silkscreen, between the touch panel and the four main PlayStation action buttons.
When you press the button Options A pop-up menu will open with several options related to that game or application. In this menu select the option Eliminate and press the X button to confirm. This will begin the action of deleting that game or application from your PS4.
You will enter the menu Eliminate where you will be asked to confirm the action through the phrase This application will be removed. Press Accept with the X button to delete that game from your PS4 storage; in the same menu we will be reminded that If you have a license for this app, you can download it again from [Library]. If you do not want to delete that game, click on Cancel.
The message will appear Hang on a minute… and after a few moments it will have completed the uninstallation of that game from the storage of your PlayStation 4. In this way, you will recover the storage space that that video game occupied on your console.
Alternative way to delete PS4 games
There is an alternative method to delete games from PS4 through a different, somewhat more complicated route. To do this, access the Settings of PS4 through the main menu of the console and select the section Storage – System Storage – Applications. Once inside, a list of the games and applications installed on the console will appear. Select the game or app you want to delete and press Options. A menu will open to the right of the screen in which you will only have to select Eliminate. Press Accept to confirm and after a few moments that game or app will have been deleted, freeing up the storage space it occupied on your console.
