Fitness for purpose, retroactively disabling your hardware by removing a deliberately engineered in "vitamin" your hardware needs to remain operational.
This is an imagined or projected problem, it is only an issue if Sony takes down the private time server the units sync with after the battery is replaced.
As noted elsewhere, Sony does have the option of providing a software fix to change the server it sync's with, or simply disable the check.
Until that server is off line, there is no issue - it will likely stay on as long as the PlayStation 4 is a viable gaming platform.
I know it bothers quite a lot of people but this is exactly why the whole "physical media is massively superior" argument really hasn't been overly persuasive for some time. The PS3 launched 15 years ago, and was replaced 8 years ago; I'd be bummed if I wanted to keep one as a working device almost forever, like I've done with an N64, but lets not pretend that if the PS3 keeps working for another 5 years that this isn't a distinctly niche demographic.
With more modern consoles you're basically buying some
I still play ps1 and ps2 games on the original consoles
I ditched consoles when the ps3 csme out though and that seems to have been a smart move given how ps3 and ps4 consoles will become bricks in the near future
a damn shame that we will get even more e-waste now just because sony has to be dicks as usual
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Fitness for purpose, retroactively disabling your hardware by removing a deliberately engineered in "vitamin" your hardware needs to remain operational.
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This is an imagined or projected problem, it is only an issue if Sony takes down the private time server the units sync with after the battery is replaced.
As noted elsewhere, Sony does have the option of providing a software fix to change the server it sync's with, or simply disable the check.
Until that server is off line, there is no issue - it will likely stay on as long as the PlayStation 4 is a viable gaming platform.
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With more modern consoles you're basically buying some
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Really?
I still like playing my original NES, Atari 2600 and even old Fairchild units.
With care those old units still play and are fun....why shouldn't a modern one be expected to do the same?
While a lot of the old consoles can be emulated....is there one for Red Dead Redemption PS3 version?
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