The PS5 Has Reportedly Been Jailbroken, Nearly Two Years After Launch

@locke90: A regular console that's not region locked still won't allow you to run mods and cheat in online games tho lol

@locke90: God I have not seen region locking since before the 7th gen. Not what sure you mean. I have modded a many console to unlock region locked games, but post 7th gen.... not seen it. Not sure as to digital, but nin cards are not region locked.. well save for China, that just has a lot of games blocked. Or if your talking about emulation, in some way.

@locke90: The PS5, as did the PS4, have no region locking for games. The same is true for the Xbox. Neither the One or the Series series (heh) are locked. For games.

@cantor2537: plus with nintendo doing away with region locking this gen you can buy a japanese switch game and play it without something like the r4.

@wenworld70: Dunno about that, I see people recommending relatively old CPUs for rcps3 (or with 6 cores, 12 threads, PS5 has 8 and 16), and you might not need super high end if you're just aiming for a game's original PS3 target framerates, not massively boosting things.

Even if you can't emulate ALL of them, it could still equal or exceed the number of 360 games that are backward compatible on Series, couldn't it?

@dirtydyk: You nailed it. I am right there with you.

@dirtydyk: But look at the upside -- you get to pay for the same games, over and over again now! That's progress!

@jecht187: The reason that Microsoft implemented back compatibility and many other features on the Xbox One is because they listened to customer feedback. They proactively asked their customers what they wanted to have on their console and MS started working on those suggestions. They even have an insider program today for those willing to join the program where they implement new ideas on the console and then ask feedback on what customers think about them before implementing them to the general Xbox console population.

You might ask Sony or Nintendo why they don't listen to their customers but that certainly is not the case with Microsoft.

@jecht187: Actually, all of the big three have stated they have plenty of data to support the claim that BC isn't nearly so popular as the tiny minority at gaming websites think it is. MS did it anyway because it was a marketing point for them. The only reason why it's so dumb for Playstation is that they ALREADY HAVE good PS1 and PS2 emulation software. Even so, they tried for a bit with PS2 games on PS4. Clearly nobody cared. And, really, the PS5 has full BC for PS4, and it's all non-DRM'd which is better than what Xbox is doing. Sony did keep their promises in that sense.

Besides, have you checked your PS1 discs lately? The disc rot is setting in, dude. If you're not emulating, you clearly don't care as much about your PS1 games as you think you do.

@jecht187: Bro, the entitlement of this statement is so insane. Why is it their responsibility to make sure you can play a game on an old system you already own? I can't even begin to explain how stupid and ridiculous that is. On top of that you think you're being ripped off. Good lord, no wonder this world is going to hell fast. You have people walking around with this kind of mentality.

If you want to play your old games, then keep the old console. Simple as that.