You may recall a furore earlier in the year, when it emerged that Sony consoles, like the PlayStation 5 and PS4, could potentially be rendered unplayable in the future due to an oversight in their design. The summary is this: the systems use an internal battery to verify Trophy unlocks, which need to be authorised by pinging a PSN server at least once in their life. The worry was that, one day, in the far-away future, the Japanese giant may disable its authentication servers, rendering games unplayable when the internal batteries inevitably die.
Earlier in the year, the manufacturer fixed this issue on the PS4, and now it’s quietly released a similar resolution for the PS5. A video uploaded by Hikikomori Media shows PS5 software booting without the aforementioned CMOS battery installed, which wasn’t the case previously. The only exception is PS Plus software, but it makes sense that Sony would need to verify your subscription for these titles, so it’s not exactly the end of the world.
Anyway, now you can rest in peace: another social media scandal has been resolved.
[source youtube.com, via wccftech.com, youtube.com]
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All Sony need to do now is to do this for PS3.
@Snake_V5 That be fantastic indeed.
@Snake_V5
Definitely.
It’s not an issue for disc games on PS3 but a lot of us have a bunch of PSN PS1 classics.
It’s the only reasonable way to play the Misadventures of Tron Bonne without going to ISO sites.
@Snake_V5 They need to update the PS3 so that it plays PS5 games.
It's pretty easy to replace the battery anyway so it never really worried me but I'm glad they found a resolution
Most discs had no issue with PS5 offline from day 1.
I’m expecting digital to always be an issue at some point.
“ so it’s not exactly the end of the world.”
Every article on this site should end this way. Not knocking the site. Love it here! Just the reactions to the articles on this site.
@JJ2 yes. And I bought a digital console with this in mind. I know the trouble I’ll run until be there no internet.
Glad it was fixed, right thing to do. Also refreshing that a giant corporation didn't feel the need to have somebody take to social media and basically say 'look at us and how much we care about you guys!' when we all know it's bs. Good job by Sony on this.
Love the way any issue that people raise and just down played to a “social media scandal” - yeah we should let companies do what they like and don’t worry about game preservation. We are a bunch of entitled children because we’d like to play our games long into the future.
We all must try better.
@Stocksy yea i’m sorry but this was fixed because of the social media “scandal”. I mean sure maybe Sony would have fixed it anyway but they didn’t for the entire PS4 generation; only now that it became public.
@K1LLEGAL exactly. People always call us entitled if we ask for or expect better from a company. Drives me potty. It proved that it was a none issue that shouldn’t have existed to begin with
Wasn’t aware this was an issue. I’ll sit in the corner with my 2 platinum.
That's a relief.
BECAUSE and THANKS to social media it was actually resolved.
@Bloodklot It's not that it's difficult to replace, it's that once you do replace it, it must connect to Sony's servers at least once (to verify the date/time) before most games will play. That becomes a huge problem when the servers for the console are shut down.
@Octane While we're at it, make sure the PS2 can play PS4 games lol
I understand the fuss to some people, but me personally when ps6 comes out I will buy one, sell my ps5 and never look back. Just like I've been doing with consoles since for the last 40 years.
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