To sell my son's PS4?

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I have had enough of the bloody thing.

All he wants to do is play on it. I bought it him for his bedroom so he wouldn't be on the one downstairs (I use it for TV, internet etc. Its very rarely used for gaming) but it's turned into a nightmare.

All he wants to do is play on it. He and his brothers argue over it.

I get up for the toilet at 2am and he's on it playing with the volume down.
All he talks about is Fortnite.

I've had enough. He's became a ZOMBIE

So AIBU to sell the PS4 and buy him a bike with the money. Encourage him to get out of the bloody house and allow him a set time each week on the PS4 downstairs?

I should add, my eldest teen is an adult, that's why we do by device and not a blanket WiFi blackout.

You can log into your home router and schedule WiFi for specific devices, which would mean that he could only play at particular times. But then, if I was a remotely tech savvy teenage gaming addict I’d use 4G and a mobile WiFi hotspot. If you’re in the sticks with no data connection to phones the solution works though.

Turning off the wifi might not work if he has a phone. You can just use the Hotspot on the phone instead of the wifi and have internet on the console that way.

If it's gotten out of hand I would lock up the console somewhere and "detox" him. Then he can earn it back and have set hours to play.
E.g. 1 hour on week days and 2 on weekends.

Good luck xx

Oh sorry. I didn't realise how old this thread is

You can't sell someone's gift. You need to suck it up and deal with him moaning when it is removed.

Why don’t you take the power lead with you to bed...it’s easy it’s just at the back of the PS4 then he won’t be able to play on it

Jeez me neither, newish to mn but it wasn’t in my new feed 🤔

Hopefully all resolved now 😂

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It depends if you want him to be better in the long or short terms. If you can train him to have more self control it'll help in the long run. Taking it away cold turkey will help in the short term but he'll binge on similar things later in life without the required self control being developed at this key stage.

Can you set limits on specific devices internet through your wifi? I'm able to do it through my BT hub.