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by tlbsofware 1468 days ago
Although 20k seems quite low, I think it is reasonable given the rise of game subscriptions.

Who would want to jailbreak and leave their ps5 offline to get 5$ games that won’t work once the station is updated. Where on the flip side you could pay 5-15$ Monthly (not sure of PlayStation Nows cost but that amount is for Xbox game pass) to have hundreds of games at your disposal and never have to physically acquire a new disk via black market to play a new game?

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Is there a reason this wouldn’t in theory allow a full jailbreak and play of the $79 games?

PlayStations’ main unique feature are the narrative based single player exclusives. So, if you were going to get a PS5 and Xbox, it seems Xbox for multi and hacked PS5 for single seems like an excellent combo - you know - if you were the type of person that could justify that sort of thing.

Back in the day I faced the same consideration with Xbox 360. I went with the reset glitch hack and was able to have hundreds and hundreds of games all play from an HDD. Eventually the hackers got servers running and you could also play online with others. A fully jail broken ps5 would definitely be appealing.
Lots of people in developing countries would.