Have you ever skilled this bug in your PS5? (Pic: Sony)
Sony has supplied an answer to a PS5 concern that made it close to unattainable for house owners to obtain their video games.
Final week, not lengthy after the PlayStation 5’s preliminary launch in sure areas, some house owners started reporting that they’d encountered a rather nasty bug.
The bug in query would stop video games from downloading, basically trapping them in a bizarre limbo that made the console concurrently suppose you had and hadn’t bought the sport.
At first, the one resolution for this was to carry out a manufacturing facility reset, however since this deletes every part off the PlayStation 5 and successfully makes it as when you simply received it out of the field, it wasn’t a really perfect resolution.
Nonetheless, Sony has now addressed the difficulty and the answer is to replace the console to the newest system software program after which begin the PlayStation 5 in Protected Mode.
To do that, you might want to press and maintain the facility button that turns the console on, however not let go till you hear a second beep.
As soon as it’s on, select to rebuild database, which merely reorganises and freshens the methods recordsdata with out deleting something, and the difficulty must be resolved.
Whereas the issue doesn’t seem like plaguing everybody (we by no means skilled the difficulty on our PlayStation 5), it’s clearly pretty widespread if Sony has needed to step in and acknowledge it.
The PlayStation 5 is accessible now (within the sense that it’s formally launched, there’s presently zero inventory at any retailers although).
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