PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace

I'm not a gamer, but it makes me wonder if I should buy a PS5 for possibly some amazing non-gaming future use - maybe compiling software?

• opan · 20 minutes ago

  It is indeed a good time. Latest firmware patched the recent exploit, but most or all boxed PS5s in stores should still be on old enough firmware. This will not be true forever. Beware of used units since they could've been updated already.

• swiftcoder · 18 minutes ago

  This is not like the PS3 generation where the Cell processors had massive untapped potential, and were priced well below market for that kind of compute. The PS5 (and its Xbox counterpart) is more-or-less just a modern budget gaming PC with a little bit of special sauce. The only advantage here is that component pricing may have been locked in before the RAM crisis.

• ChrisRR · 13 minutes ago

  Nah you're better off just buying a PC. Gone are the days where you were getting amazing hardware for the price

• MYEUHD · 13 minutes ago

  Beware that you need a hypervisor exploit to run Linux. And these are incredibly rare. But, there was one patched very recently on firmware version 14.10 So, if you buy a PS5 now, you should be good

• chocochunks · 12 minutes ago

  Not worth it. It's basically a knee capped Ryzen 3700X with less cache. You can get a better CPU for less money. The GPU performance is still alright but it's not good at non-gaming tasks as it lacks cores for ML tasks.

There aren't really any games worth playing these days.

• xyzsparetimexyz · 8 minutes ago

  Ace Combat 8 just came out bro

Maybe telling people they don't own their games and your usage is subject to their whims wasn't the best idea. "Piracy is a service problem" - Gabe Newell