Sony has started tweaking hardware issues in the PlayStation 5 in the last few months. The current looming issue at hand makes it impossible for PS4 and PS3 games to run in PS5. This means that the consoles’ clock battery (CMOS) dies and blocks players from connecting to Sony servers.
While this has been affecting digital games at this moment, Sony has now decided to fix this issue with its new firmware update.
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Sony fixes the CMOS issue in PlayStation consoles
Earlier, IGN had explained in their report that this issue was a looming concern that would make players resort to methods of piracy in order to play their favorite games.
Destruction Games recently reported on Twitter that Sony has fixed the CMOS issue, which prevented PS4 users from playing digital or disc games if the CMOS died. After this update, people will be able to play games even with a dead CMOS as well.
Soooooo it looks like the 9.0 PS4 firmware update fixed the CBOMB issue…
Tested it on my PS4 with a dead battery and games are no longer crashing on startup and I can even earn trophies, although the trophy earn dates will be blank
— Destruction Games (@desgamesyt) September 21, 2021
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Disc games will now work without crashing in PS4 consoles and this will indeed come as a sigh of relief to the fans of these consoles.
This issue was brought to light by @DoesItGame who first found the issue in the consoles.
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BREAKING: A kind volunteer has dismantled their PS5 to test #cbomb for us and the initial results confirm that PS5 is also affected.
Initial results indicate that all digital games will cease to work in a #cbomb scenario.
More details to come soon.
— Does it play? (@DoesItPlay1) April 16, 2021
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Sony has not commented anything officially on this update as of yet so it is not official whether this update has fixed the bug or not.
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