Could PSN Name Changes Be Right Around the Corner?

well maybe people should have thought about their online ID's properly before they made up a stupid one

i would rather they give us External HDD support first, EVERY other system has it

yeah - I'm tired of using my name

@FullbringIchigo some people came up with theirs like 7 years ago.
Also - some people (like myself) didn't know the repercussions - cuz you have to see the effects of your name before you know what you should and shouldn't have for a name. Just saying - mistakes happen. I'd love to be able to change mine to like "Invader Zim" or "Toxic Avenger" or something

@vitalemrecords oh i understand that, don't get me wrong but there are other things Sony need to add to PS4 before the ability to change your PSN ID

at the end of the day if we are honest your PSN ID isn't really that important (not when you can link it to your facebook or twitter account and use those names instead) but things like External HDD Support are

it's just that i think there are other things that should take priority, especially with Switch coming out and XB1 adding more functions all the time (like backwards compatibility), the PS4 is starting to fall behind and that's not a good thing

Can't understand why it's taken so long. A simple query could add a Unique reference number to each PSN (this was clearly missing otherwise wouldn't have been such an issue) why it wasn't there in the first place is beyond me. Then it shouldn't be too difficult to redirect to this field. Wouldn't be for where I work anyway in a similar scenario. I suppose i'm not dealing with 70m plus account or whatever it is across multiple systems though.

@FullbringIchigo if new features are announced I'd be very surprised if it is just one. External might be there for all we know.

If it's not then I'd have to agree with you though

Agree with above poster when you choose a psn id choose a good one that you are happy with. Seen so many stupid names over the year. Its not sony's fault if users are not picking decent names. Funniest psn id name I saw was No Knickers Emma.

As for external hard drives not needed for me. I thought you could swap the ps4 hard drives internally so just have different games on different hard drives problem solved only takes a few minutes to change the hard drive.

Switch is not a threat to Sony but a lot of games are going to get ported from PS4 so will be interesting. I will buy the switch just for the portable gaming side. But not sure it will be even as powerful as the current PS4

As a rule I wont group with anyone with an ID containing the word 'swag' in any form.. So yeah I guess usernames matter to people.

I want to swap mine as honestly, I didn't realise I couldn't change it, did it ages ago and want to align it now with aliases elsewhere. So yes, this would be my most requested feature.I am clearly one of the stupid ones...

I think that unusual or weird screen names are a good conversation starter in voice chat. Also allowing change of names allows people to make even stupider names than they have now.

I know your game, Sammy. You just want xXBigBoyXx to give it up so you can nab it for yourself! There's no flies on me, I tell thee!

That would be nice if it was true. I actually want to add something to my current name.

@FullbringIchigo I could not agree more with your first statement, and not disagree more with your second.

As for the topic at hand: If we make the assumption that the reason they cannot allow name changes is because everything on all existing games are tied to your name, rather than some GUID, then having developers of new games use a different method will not solve the problem for all existing titles. This means that a name change mechanism might occur during the PS5 era, but not while there are active PS4 games that use the old system.

I'm perfectly happy with mine. I did have a yank account called BaseballFuries but I forgot the password to it and now it's lost in oblivion.

@kyleforrester87 lol! I'm also good with my name too I will never get rid of WittyPixel!

I don't plan on changing mine but I think it's a good feature to have for their subscribers considering PSN has been around for a decade. I'm sure a lot of people have matured to a point where they would like something different.

I'm happy with my PSN name as I took more than a minute to come up with it, so I'm not really bothered by it.

Also when it finally does become possible, don't expect it to be free. MS charged for years to let you change your gamer tag, so that would provide an additional revenue stream for Sony. Anything to nickle & dime the consumer.

@FullbringIchigo Really? Some people made theirs almost a decade ago. Myself? I made one for a couple of games on my girlfriend's PS3, not expecting to use it on my own PSP and PS4 years down the line...

I've been waiting this for a while, however the reason my PSN name is so stupid in the first place is because any good name I could think of (even odd combinations of my name/initials and birth year) were taken!

I wouldn't mind the option. Felt like changing mine for a while, but I'd probably take so much time trying to come up with a good name it'll probably stay the same.

@kyleforrester87 Thanks for the name sucker I'm adding you to my friends list

@wittypixel I'm adding you to my friends list

@kyleforrester87 alright sweet

@kyleforrester87 My psn is WolfSpike95 by the way

@dryrain Funniest psn id name I saw was No Knickers Emma.

Haha that's pretty tragic. My son has a friend called kinky bender - they were both 7 or 8 at the time and was watching futurama (obviously bender is the robot) and his older brother used the word kinky alot. So he chose that name. That's the worst name.

No. These are all false rumours. Sony confirmed that it is impossible to do this on their made in china database.