![]() ![]() Yes, the 10- to 20-year lifespan on your average CMOS battery is slowly running out, especially for the earliest PS3 hardware. Advertisementįurther Reading The day the Mario Kart died: Nintendo’s kill switch and the future of online consolesNone of this is a huge problem for most PlayStation owners right now. This check has to be performed at least once even if the CMOS battery is replaced with a fresh one so the system can reconfirm clock consistency. On the PS4, this also happens when you try to play retail games installed from a disc. On the PS3, this online check happens when you play a game downloaded from the PlayStation Store. If that battery dies or is removed for any reason, it raises an internal flag in the system's firmware indicating the clock may be out of sync with reality.Īfter that flag is raised, the system in question has to check in with PSN the next time it needs to confirm the correct time. The root of the coming issue has to do with the CMOS battery inside every PS3 and PS4, which the systems use to keep track of the current time (even when they're unplugged). While that impending store shutdown won't impact players' abilities to play and re-download previously purchased software for now, the eventual wider shutdown of PSN servers for these aging consoles could have a much more drastic effect on the playability of a wide swath of games. But it's gaining new attention amid Sony's recently announced decision to shut down the online stores for PS3, PSP, and Vita software. Further Reading Sony will shut down online stores for legacy PlayStation games this summerThis ticking firmware time bomb has been known in certain PlayStation preservation and hacking circles for a while. ![]()
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