A dumb battery can lock you out of your digital purchases (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Sunday, April 18, 2021, 08:44 (1097 days ago)

https://gamerant.com/ps5-hardware-flaw-cant-play-games-battery-clock/

If your CMOS battery dies in a PS3, PS4, or PS5, and you are not connected to the internet, your digital purchases are unplayable. Down the line, when PSN is no more, then all your games are locked away.

Just a reminder from chicken little.

UPDATE: It also lock you out of discs.

https://gamerant.com/ps4-clock-battery-problem-real/

Man. Fuck you Sony.

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A dumb battery can lock you out of your digital purchases - Cody Miller, 2021-04-18, 08:44
- A dumb battery can lock you out of your digital purchases - Kermit, 2021-04-18, 09:29
  - A dumb battery can lock you out of your digital purchases - Cody Miller, 2021-04-18, 09:42
- Weird - ZackDark, 2021-04-19, 07:03
  - Weird - EffortlessFury, 2021-04-19, 08:04
    - Weird - Cody Miller, 2021-04-19, 08:30
      - Weird - Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316), 2021-04-19, 09:01
      - Weird - squidnh3, 2021-04-19, 11:32
        
        Which is easily repleaceable - ZackDark, 2021-04-19, 11:48
      - Just to be clear - kidtsunami, 2021-04-19, 11:38
        
        Just to be clear - Cody Miller, 2021-04-19, 12:07
        
        It sucks, but you are wrong - ZackDark, 2021-04-19, 21:55
        
        It sucks, but you are wrong - Cody Miller, 2021-04-20, 08:18
        
        It sucks, but you are wrong - ZackDark, 2021-04-20, 09:11
        
        It sucks, but you are wrong - Cody Miller, 2021-04-20, 10:09
        
        It sucks, but you are wrong - ManKitten, 2021-04-20, 11:11
        
        It sucks, but you are wrong - Cody Miller, 2021-04-20, 12:45

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A dumb battery can lock you out of your digital purchases (Gaming)