Remember the days of buying disks to play games on a console? Right. Like, yesterday. Sony is upping its game for digital delivery with the introduction of PS5 Digital Edition which is currently available to be pre-ordered by PSN members in good standing. This sets the PS5 apart from the other consoles from the last generation making it one step closer to having all games delivered by and available only from The Cloud.
Interested? Register on-line to get your chance to pre-order. Pricing has not yet been announced.
Does this mean rootkits will be distributed from The Cloud instead of by disk in the future?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @02:06AM (3 children)
A Playstation 5 with no disk drive, no internet connection, and no active Playstation account is a paperweight. No longer could you buy one from Gamestop or Goodwill or the pawn shop and expect to do anything at all with it. They will be a perfect example of environmental waste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2020, @02:23AM (1 child)
If you can jailbreak it, you have a very cheap gaming PC, at least at launch. If you can't jailbreak it, you have a walled jail console.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Monday August 31 2020, @01:48PM
It's a big if. They are getting better with each and every generation of consoles to keep people out. By locking down the user and removing most forms of allowable software input locally this could be a long time away. If faulty software are the primary attack vector for the last few generations and that now possibly being of-the-market as an attack vector it's going to have to be finding some kind of faulty hardware vector that would be the goal. But it might be harder then before since they are now probably going to run various, and constant, checks to see if any non-authorized modifications have been made. So you might eventually be able to break it but then you are probably screwed in the other end cause you might/will never be able to connect to PSN again. So now you'll need at least two PS5:s -- one for your PSN needs and one for your own (non-legit-in-the-eyes-of-sony) stuff.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Acabatag on Monday August 31 2020, @02:45AM
It reminds me of back when I bought an Atari 600. They were really cheap at liquidation stores back in the early 80's, mainly because Atari killed them very quickly before there was any software or peripherals for them. Really there was no software at all. You could program them in BASIC, but the only peripheral to save your program onto was a cassette tape player.