PS5 Also Has CMOS Problem Like PS3 and PS4
The PlayStation 5 has the same CMOS battery issue as the PS4 and PS3. Thankfully, not in such a broad way, which may suggest that Sony has approached the solutions used in the PS5 a little better.
- The CMOS battery issue that occurs on the PS3 and PS4 also manifests itself on the PS5;
- The good news? It causes much less trouble than on older consoles.
Earlier this week, we once again wrote about a potential problem caused by CMOS battery failure in the PlayStation 4. There were many indications that similar problems may also occur in the PlayStation 5, and the Internet decided to research the subject.
Reports circulating for several dozen days about the fact that older Sony consoles do not allow for running games after removing the CMOS battery (or its failure or it being depleted), appeared shortly after the leaked info about the closure of the PlayStation Store for the PS3, PS Vita and PSP (shortly followed by official confirmation). Following this, it was determined that the PS4 also has a similar problem.
You can read more about it here, but we remind that it's about a situation when we're unable to launch games on a PlayStation console while offline, without a constant internet connection and logging into our PSN account. It seems that without a continuous power supply from the CMOS battery, the system is unable to determine whether the user actually owns the game and can run it. The problem is only solved by logging into PSN, downloading the relevant data from our account, and automatically setting the current time on the console.
What about PlayStation 5? As you probably know from the title - Sony's newest console can also show errors. The Does it play? Twitter profile posted information that one of the owners of the device disassembled it, removed the CMOS battery and the console was causing problems after restarting without connecting to the Internet, although in a slightly different dimension than the PS3 and PS4.
Shortly after the initial tweet, an elaboration on the issue emerged. In a nutshell, it shows that when the battery was removed, all digital PS5 games stopped working. For titles played from the disc, the test results were mixed. Mortal Kombat 11 couldn't install, Spider-Man: Miles Morales worked without issue, as did Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War, although in this case the lack of connection to the server made it very difficult to navigate the menus due to constantly displayed error messages.
The case of PS4 games on PS5 is an interesting one. Digital games, of course, did not work. On the other hand, there were no problems (except for Resident Evil 2) with running games from discs. So it looks like Sony has changed something in the way of verifying the license, which we assign to our account and console.
Gamers interested in the subject are going to check more games and find out how big of an issue the problem can be, for the purposes of social media dubbed as "cbomb". Sony has yet to comment on the matter, and it's unclear if they plan to do so at all.
