Yes, you can share PS Plus and your games with another PS5. Here's how it works

The option is official, it's called console sharing and Sony keeps it buried in the settings

Two PS5s in the same flat, or one at yours and one at your partner's, and a single PS Plus subscription between them. The question asks itself: do you really have to pay twice? Short answer, no. The console ships with a feature built exactly for this, with its own menu and its own official name, even if Sony keeps it tucked away where nobody wanders in by accident.

It's called console sharing and offline play, and PlayStation's support page is refreshingly plain about what it does: anyone using that console can play your games, watch your media and enjoy several perks of your PlayStation Plus subscription. In practice, your partner or your brother plays on their own account, with their own saves and trophies, using the games you paid for.

This matters more since May's price rise, with Premium now at 18.99 euros a month in Spain. If you're still weighing up tiers, we've already covered what each PS Plus plan includes and costs in 2026; today is about something else, making one well-placed subscription serve two consoles.

How to switch on console sharing on the second PS5, step by step

Sign in with your account on the other PS5, the one belonging to the person you're sharing with. On that console, go to Settings, then Users and Accounts, then Other, and there it is: Console Sharing and Offline Play. Hit Enable and you're done. From that moment, every account on that PS5 sees your digital library and your PS Plus perks as if they were its own.

One detail that trips people up: the feature can only be active on one console per account, and your own machine doesn't need it. The shared console is the one that plays your licences even offline; yours checks over the internet that the games are really yours every time you launch one. So you keep playing everything as normal, each of you on your own console with your own account, as long as yours stays online.

Vandal walked through the process with the same warning worth repeating here: this means putting your account, password and all, into someone else's console. Do it only with someone you trust completely, keep two-step verification on, and don't even think about setting it up with half your WhatsApp group.

What the other person inherits from your PS Plus, and what stays with you

The official page on sharing PlayStation Plus is more generous than you'd expect. On the shared console, the other accounts can play online multiplayer, use the monthly games you've downloaded and dive into both the Extra game catalogue and Premium's classics catalogue. With a single Extra subscription in the right place, both PS5s get July's full catalogue, from Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora to Rise of the Ronin.

Some things don't travel. Store discounts only work when buying from your account, cloud storage is personal and keeps each player's saves separate, and early access to game trials stays with the subscribed account. The other person also can't redeem your monthly games onto their own account: they play them while you share the console and, if you ever stop sharing, they lose them.

The fine print: one console only, internet required on yours and an emergency button

The one-console rule is strict. To move sharing to another PS5 you first have to disable it on the current one, from the same menu. And if that console is out of reach — an ex, a house move, a PS5 sold in a hurry — Sony lets you deactivate all devices remotely from account management, but only once every six months. Save that bullet for a real emergency.

The whole system also hangs off PSN. Your console, the one verifying licences online, can be locked out of your own games if the servers go down, and that's not a hypothetical: during this July's PSN outage plenty of players stared at a paid-for library that wouldn't launch. It's the toll of going digital, and console sharing pulls you a little deeper in.

Two consoles, one subscription, zero shady workarounds: Sony allows it, so use it.