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
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.