PlayStation 5: Sony defuses a ticking time bomb

An annoying problem with the battery of the PlayStation 5 has to make the potential to make your console useless in the future. A tech youtuber has now found that Sony could defuse the ticking time bomb in the meantime.

PlayStation 5: Are your games safe now?

Inside each PlayStation 5 is a CMOS battery that operates the system clock of the console. However, if this battery will be empty or broken at some point, players so far stood a problem that could potentially make the whole console useless. The console would request you to manually specify a time and a date and then connect to the PlayStation network. However, this attempt fails, the console simply no longer allowed you to play your games.

In the spring 2021, it became clear that both the PlayStation 4 and the Playstation 5 are delivered with this ticking time bomb. In September, however, a fan found that the problem was solved at least for the PS4. The Tech Youtuber Hikikomori Media has now taken his brand new PS5 and has good news: All games work without CMOS battery.

Digital Edition of the PS5 was particularly at risk

The so-called C-bomb would have become dangerous for the owners of the digital edition of the PlayStation 5. After all, this version of the console has no way to play games using a disc. So if the scenario occurs that your CMOS battery inevitably gives up the mind and you can not connect to the PlayStation network, would be all the games that you have acquired digitally with a blow.

Although Sony officially has never admitted that the C-bomb existed at all, the publisher seems quiet and secretly defused for the PS4 and PS5 now. Even if the servers should be switched off for both consoles in a few years, you can continue to enjoy your games.

Is the PS4 Sony's Ticking Timebomb? | More Potential Problems Sony Needs to Answer - HM Sony defuses a ticking time bomb, which would have endangered the future of the PlayStation 5. Digitally acquired games can now be played even when the CMOS battery has been removed and no connection to the PlayStation network is created.

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