We’re looking for someone to find a way of giving current PlayStation 5 users real ownership over their own hardware.
The bounty can be won by any eligible person who makes a hardware, software, or combined modification or method to any model of PlayStation 5, that meets the following criteria:
It must demonstrably allow for the modification or bypassing of the PS5 hypervisor to the extent that an alternate OS can be booted. The alternate OS is not required to be stable.
It must either be a one-off implementation, or an implementation that takes no more than 10 minutes to execute if it needs to be repeated.
It must work on firmware version 13.42 or newer.
The alternate OS must be able to access the PS5’s primary computation, memory, and graphics hardware.
The PlayStation 5 must continue to be capable of being booted into its original operating system, with the capability to play PS5 games.
If the proposed solution involves a hardware modification, it must:
Not require hardware (aside from an external disc drive) that has cost equivalent to any substantial portion of the PlayStation 5’s cost
Be able to be carried out by someone with only basic soldering skills and equipment
My ps5 collects dust. I’d love to run Linux on it and use it as a steam machine alternative. One can dream.
I recently bought BC250 (same hardware as in PS5) and unlocked 40CU (by default on this board only 20 available, on PS5 - 38CU) — it’s actually pretty good machine. Alto, idle power consumption quite high (power saving features doesn’t work). The fact that sony just gatekeeps this hardware is insane. And in a year or two, when they release ps6, this one will become a ewaste, even tho with 16gb of ram it still pretty capable machine.
I just don’t understand the logic. I don’t pirate games, I buy them. Let me use the hardware to its fullest as an htpc, let me run steam on it, release your games on steam, give me options - if you do, the console wouldn’t be collecting dust and I’d probably buy things from you. But right now, I don’t buy anything from Sony anymore.
I’m not even sure I need it completely open, just give us the tools and means to build and put apps in it or something. It’s just too closed and that ruins the otherwise capable hardware.
Same logic as any control freak; anything less than 100% control isn’t good enough.
This. Actually one of the reasons why Valve didn’t sell GabeCube at loss or even at 0 markup, they prices it fairly well (compared to other prebuilds). Otherwise it would be an amazing deal - cheap and small prebuild desktop PC.
Same with PS5, if they allowed to install linux, people would start buying their consoles and *gasps in horror* - use device as they please, which means not buying games from their overpriced store. It actually already happened before with PS3, I recall article that some even used it for making a cluster essentially DIY’ing super computer. I doubt people would do the same with PS5 and realistically, they not even selling this console at loss, so they absolutely wouldn’t lost anything, but like, it’s Sony we are talking about.