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Stupendous, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru

I have a PS5 that I rarely turn on. Everything ends up on PC. PC handhelds better than a PS Portal. To phone streaming everything supports. Playing PC games on Android is a thing now. Switch handles party gaming. No replacing Mario party/kart/tennis/strikers/golf. Nintendo IP party games are OP

What I’m interested in are the insights the PS5 will give into PS4 architecture. PS5 is backwards compatible and seeing what the PS5 does to accommodate any problematic games in BC. PS4 emulation over 5 because 4 is well along. PS5 is deep in the no console exclusives era. Early PS4 still had semblance of third party exclusives and Japanese games skipping PC

I unplugged the PS5 Ethernet port just in case I ever want to do something in the future. I doubt it besides possibly future of running Linux on it. It’d make a great gaming PC someday as a gift. People always talk about exclusives as a reason for consoles. I play way more games on PC that aren’t available on consoles. Too old and abandoned. Too indie so it may not show up for years if ever on consoles.

Hopefully the Xbox series X gets jail broken someday too. They’d be great values for gaming PCs

Naho_Zako,

We barely turned our PS5 on until about a year and a half ago, it was the Switch that was getting all our love. Now we have a Switch 2 we barely touch and the PS5 gets attention cause games are on sale (nobody bought it lol)

I do PC game, but I prefer console because there’s WAY less fiddling and tinkering due to hardware issues or shitty game ports. I was excited for the FFVII steam sale until I saw the reviews complaining about stuttering and performance issues. I prefer a painless, boot-it-up-and-play-immediately experience over modding capability.

criticon,

nobody bought the ps5?

Key Figures & Estimates (Late 2025/Early 2026)

PlayStation 5 (PS5): ~84-86 million units (crossing 80M mark by late 2025).

Xbox Series X/S: ~34 million units (estimates vary, but well behind PS5).

Nintendo Switch (Original): ~154 million units (still selling well, nearing DS).

Nintendo Switch 2 (New): Starting sales with ~12.4 million units by late 2025 (estimated).

84 mil seems like a lot. PS games have always been discounted, contrary to Nintendo games

SailorMoss,

It seems it’s not widely known. But the Xbox series X is hacked. The PS5 has been hacked for a while too. This is just gonna make the hacks a lot better. 

BroBot9000, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru
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Now we are getting somewhere

superglue, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru

If someone gets Bazzite running on it I will 100% start shopping around for a used ps5.

fistac0rpse, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru

hypothetically, could they use different keys for each hardware revision? that'd help limit the impact as not every existing console would be affected. you'd think they had a plan for this in place after the PS3 keys leaked and their multiple huge security breaches

KiwiTB, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru

Sony has no competition right now in their market so they will be fine. Besides the PS6 isn’t to far away.

degenerate_neutron_matter, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru

Cool, but this article looks like AI slop.

Chozo,
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How?

degenerate_neutron_matter,

Didn't see this earlier but another thread gave a good summary: https://piefed.social/comment/9505729

harcesz, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru
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Let me guess, they sunk their battleship?

SolarPunker, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru

I hope this will lower its price

chocrates,

Probably going in the other direction. Now current gen ones are more valuable then the next gen they make.

If Sony was selling ps5’s at cost or loss, then you could get a gaming pc and run Linux on it for cheaper than building one

bubblybubbles, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru

Seems cool, but what does this mean?

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor,

In simple: you can tell your ps5 that ANYTHING is legal and ok to be executed on it.

keyhoh, do games w PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru
@keyhoh@piefed.social avatar

I’m not much for understanding all of the lingo, so I’m wondering if this is something I could do on my own. I would love to make my ps5 my “smart” tv and no longer have to use Google’s services.

Also, installing RetroArch on it would be super sweet. Will this all be possible for a low level user, or will I need an expert to put Linux on it so I can customize my rig?

My second question that wasn’t quite clear was if I could have my psn account and still play online while changing the os. I still want to play with my friends online while being able to load other apps. I know if it’s detected I changed things I’ll get locked out, but how will they tell?

Gerudo,

Coming from previous console hacks…

It generally does require a halfway decent techie background to hack a console (or anything, like jailbreaking a phone). At the very least, being able to follow guides exactly to the letter or risk bricking a device.

Generally speaking, hacking a console will not let you play online.

You generally don’t want to put a hacked console on the internet at all to keep it from being potentially flagged from the parent service like PSN

Now, this could all be different depending on the actual hack, but it’s what’s been true for previous ones.

keyhoh,
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Thank you. I figured it’d likely be too hard for me to do, but being able to get someone to mod my machine is pretty sweet. I might wait for a bit longer to do it, but I’m liking where this is going. And if I could run steam on it, I might just do it right away so I can play those games instead of my PS ones. Most games are cross platform now anyways.

Lfrith,

Ever since Sony and Nintendo switched to paid online that has no longer been the con it used to be for me. Back for the PS3 I didn’t jailbreak it since online was free, but for the switch and ps4 I didn’t hesitate.

Chozo,
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If this is something you want to try for yourself, either buy a second PS5 and use a burner account on it, or be prepared for the possibility of losing your entire PSN account. This goes for pretty much any internet-enabled console modding.

Nintendo deactivated a 10+ year old account of mine when I tried modding a Wii a while back. It wasn't a huge deal at the time, because I still had physical copies of most of my games at that point. But these days, my library is almost entirely digital, so I keep separate fuck-around accounts so that I don't find-out with an account I've spent money on.

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