PS5 does not support save transfers via USB

It turned out that PlayStation 5 games aren’t the only ones that are effectively blocked on your internal storage. The next-gen console does not allow backups to be transferred to a USB drive so they can be easily transferred to another console. You’ll still be able to upload them to cloud storage with a PlayStation Plus subscription and then transfer them between systems from there, but there’s no longer a way to do that physically at launch. This is a feature that was present on PlayStation 4 but not available on PS5 at the time of writing.

To clarify, the option to transfer your PS4 saves to a PS5 system via USB still exists. As Polygon reveals, there is an option in the Settings menu that lists “USB Drive” as a way to access your save data for PS4 titles, but it doesn’t appear anywhere in the PS5 tab of a similar nature. Therefore, the only way to transfer saves between PS5 consoles at this time is to do so through cloud storage with an active PS Plus subscription.

Are you disappointed that this feature no longer exists on PS5? Do you hope the support will be fixed as soon as possible? Create some space in your cloud storage in the comments below.