P.T. was able to be installed on the PS5... but it wouldn't run.
The PS5 has been jailbroken using an old exploit first discovered on the PS4.
Andy ‘TheFloW’ Nguyen first discovered the PS4 IPV6 webkit exploit and also found its PS5 variant back in January 2022 of this year.
“I found it on the PS4 and then two years later on the PS5,” Nguyen told Vice’s Motherboard. “It seems like their patch somehow got reverted when doing FreeBSD9 to FreeBSD11 migration.”
Hacker SpecterDev used the exploit to access the PS5’s debug mode, taking to Twitter to demonstrate how it works.
Testing PS5 4.03 Kernel Exploit For Disc Or Digital PS5@frwololo @ps4_hacking pic.twitter.com/K8p8j0owoq
— Echo Stretch (@StretchEcho) October 3, 2022
The catch is that the exploit is only found on PS5 consoles running firmware 4.03; if you’ve updated your console since October 2021, you’re out of luck.
Aussie and friend of the site Lance McDonald has also taken to Twitter to show how jailbreaking works, going as far as to install the PS4’s P.T. on his PS5; sadly, it doesn’t look like the game was able to run as it’s not backwards compatible.
It's… beautiful.
The PlayStation 5 has been jailbroken. pic.twitter.com/54fvBGoQGw
— Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) October 3, 2022
While this is likely something most of us won’t experience — or need to, for that matter — it’s still pretty neat as a concept. What do you make of a jailbroken PS5? Sound off in the comments area, below.
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