How to Use PS5 Remote Play on Your PS4 Console

Feb. 15, 2021

With the new PS5 out now, most people are probably selling off their old PS4 consoles. However, if you have a PlayStation 5 in, say the living room, and your PS4 is in your bedroom, you can play PS5 games on your PS4 as well. In fact, this even works if your PS5 is connected to a different WiFi network somewhere far away as well. So, if you’re interested in making use of your PS4 console as a PS5emulator, here is how to use PS5 Remote Play on the PS4.

How to Use Remote Play to Play PS5 Games on PS4

Remote Play on the PlayStation works really well in my experience. However, before you can dive into a game of Destruction All Stars on your PlayStation 4, you will have to jump through just a couple of hoops. In this article, we will discuss step-by-step what you need to do in order to enable remote play on your PS5 and then connect your PS4 to it.

The first thing we need to do, is enable remote play on the PS5 itself. Here’s how to do that.

I would also recommend that while you’re setting things up on your PS5, you should also enable this setting. With this, you can keep your PS5 on rest mode, and still be able to remotely game using the PS4. Here’s how to do that.

On your PlayStation 4, follow these steps. Do note that you need to sign in with the samePS5/PSN accounton both the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.

Once you’re done gaming on the PS5, you can disconnect from the remote session quite easily as well.

While playing games remotely is really cool, and I find it useful when I’m at home but I want to play Destruction All Stars on the PS5 at work, if you don’t want to use this feature any longer, here is how to disable remote access.

Even though I have tested this with my PS4 console sitting at home and the PS5 sitting 26kms away at work, it has still worked really well for me. I have played Destruction All Stars with Remote Play, and even random Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War matches before I downloaded it on my PS4.

So, are you interested in using PS5 remote play on your console? Let us know in the comments. Also, don’t forget to check out our coverage of other PS5 articles where we have shown how you canpreset game settingsand change thePS5 controller’s hapticsto better enjoy the games.