Liberating a PlayStation 5

Photo by Kamil Switalski I’ve previously discussed how I modified my PlayStation 4 to give me control over the hardware I own. Sony has been increasingly anti-consumer. Not to be undone, Microsoft requires linking a Microsoft account to a Sony account for gamers who want to play the first Halo game released for PlayStation, even in single-player mode1. Sony is also requiring customers purchase additional PlayStation accounts simply to play local, split-screen multiplayer2. These increasingly terrible decisions make me glad I took the time to learn how to liberate my PlayStation 5. Planning My PlayStation 5 is running firmware 10.40, installed two years ago in 2024. It’s difficult to find decent guides for jail breaking a PlayStation 5, with most of the public exploit code having very vague documentation. This is likely intentional to prevent them from getting flagged and removed from hosting sites like GitHub. PlayStation 5 Running 10.40 Firmware From what I could determine, breaking…