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A post on X (formerly Twitter) revealed that “Relapse,” a jailbreak tool for the PS5, works on consoles running firmware 7.00–13.60, and that emulators for other systems — including the Nintendo Switch — are being ported to it one after another, sparking discussion on 5ch. The hack is reportedly turning the PS5 into a machine capable of running software from multiple platforms. Opinions in the thread split: some worried about the spread of pirated software and the impact on backward-compatibility design for the PS6, while others argued the real damage to Sony — whose revenue centers on online subscriptions and microtransactions — would be minimal.
A jailbroken PS5 is turning into an emulation monster. The Relapse jailbreak works on PS5 and PS5 Pro consoles running firmware 7.00–13.60.
Developers have already ported the following emulators and ports:
>Nintendo Switch
Source: x.com / Original post here
What people said
Beats a censorship-riddled, barely-profitable console library — congrats, you horny PS5 owners
Guess it's got no other use anyway
A paperweight would at least be stable — this thing wobbles whether you stand it up or lay it down
No need to actually run PlayStation games on it anymore
so bricking it isn't scary
then it'll seriously become the ultimate console
Back in the PSP days Sony said something like "it's not our games getting pirated," so I guess they still won't bother countering this
Even if a Switch 2 emulator runs, won't it be choppy?
Apparently their crowd thinks 30fps makes your eyes rot, so they probably won't bother lol
It's the PC and Xbox ("crap box" — a common derisive nickname for Xbox) crowd who hate 30fps
"Doing the impossible — that's the best part."
"This is for the players."
No real gamer could defend this
You just want to get off but you're stuck reading walls of text first
Having to slog through all that before the good part is a hard no for me
All that long text is packed with the writer's personal quirks, that's what makes it interesting. Whether you can still enjoy it that way today, who knows.
letting you download pirated games directly and easily
With hackers mobilized en masse, app development is moving fast too
At this rate
third parties won't be able to release offline-only games anymore
and multi-platform titles on other consoles will stop selling too —
it's going to do real damage
tends to get leaked on purpose whenever they want to clear out console inventory
so that's probably what's going on here too
it can still be run via a backport of the 13.6 jailbreak,
so there's a good chance GTA6 will be playable even if it requires firmware 14
No wonder Amazon preorders just slammed to a halt
If anything, console sales might increase, so there's a real chance Sony just quietly looks the other way
The logic being: sacrificing offline games is a cheap price to pay if it boosts console sales and sabotages the competition
For "free spirits," pirating is just "normal," lol
Though for some reason they go quiet when you point it out, lol lol
Guess that means PlayStation's already a dead franchise, lol
Seriously, this
it's basically become a pointlessly huge, pointlessly expensive home emulator box lol
They say royalty and nobility are descended from bandits, so that tracks
Do I really need to explain why this doesn't bother me?
Thanks for wasting your money, lol
Sony might just quietly let this slide
Just like with the PSP and Vita,
if free pirated games run rampant,
third parties will pull out one after another,
and as third-party titles dry up,
PSN subscribers will drop right along with them
Background and key points of this discussion
The PS5 jailbreak tool “Relapse” only supports firmware versions 7.00–13.60, and carries the same risk as traditional console modding: a failed attempt can “brick” the console into a paperweight. The thread’s central disagreement is over how much real damage this does to software sales. Some worried about pirated copies of third-party offline-only games spreading, while others pointed out that since PS5 revenue now runs mainly on online subscriptions like PlayStation Plus, a rise in modded users could even work in Sony’s favor by boosting console sales and subscriber retention — leading some to suggest Sony might simply look the other way. Past precedents, like the custom-firmware (CFW) booms on the PSP and PS Vita, show that modding on its own didn’t collapse those console or handheld businesses. Whether this jailbreak ends up being a contained issue rather than an industry-wide blow remains the open question.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry “Geha”) thread “[Good News] PS5 Gets Modded, Becomes the Ultimate Console.”
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