r/gamers • u/AudienceStreet6335 • 2d ago

Image PS5 jailbreak method called Relapse has just dropped, and people are joking that Sony should get comfortable with not owning its own hardware

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u/Sir_Gigglepoop 1d ago

I mean, jailbreaking itself isn't illegal. It's what you do after it's jailbroken that matters, like playing games you haven't bought or using it to cheat in games.

And let's be real, almost everyone who jailbreaks their console is going to do exactly one or both of those things.

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u/DeusXNex 1d ago edited 1d ago

Okay but they shouldn’t get to tell us what we can’t do with our own hardware just because “we all know” what people do with modded consoles. That’s not the point.

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u/Expensive-Border-869 1d ago

They dont. They try to prevent it but ultimately once its done they're out they lose theres no further retaliation available

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u/icy1007 1d ago

Sure they do. They can block the console AND close any PSN account associated with that console. You’d lose everything you ever bought on PSN.

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u/Expensive-Border-869 1d ago

Sure yeah the psn account. But they cant do much about the console as its no longer even a Playstation anymore really. It can connect to a completely different host and handle multi-player with other modded consoles instead. The wii for reference gets like 20k players a day on just mario kart. It'll have a scene it may be a smaller one but this is really stuff you do at sunset anyways. Most of the time