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PS5 Sales Soared In The US, And There Is A Pretty Obvious Reason Why

PS5 Sales Soared In The US, And There Is A Pretty Obvious Reason Why https://ift.tt/cyI371i The PlayStation 5 had a strong sales week recently, with weekly sales of Sony's platform reaching new heights for the year so far. What caused the uptick in PS5 sales for the week that ended April 4? The growth in sales no doubt was attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Sony raised the price of the PS5 on April 2 , so it seems people were motivated to buy a console before prices went up. Circana's Mat Piscatella shared this information , saying the surge in sales for the PS5 came "as price increases loomed." The increased spending on PS5 help drive weekly hardware sales overall in the US--covering all platforms--to double compared to the same week a year ago. Continue Reading at GameSpot

PlayStation Portal Exploit That Let It Run PSP Games Fixed Due To Hacker Help

PlayStation Portal Exploit That Let It Run PSP Games Fixed Due To Hacker Help https://ift.tt/pmvowVI

An exploit that hackers used to get the PlayStation Portal to run PSP games has been fixed, and it's due to the hackers reporting the exploit to PlayStation itself.

The issue was fixed in the latest 2.06 patch that was released to all PlayStation Portal users. Back in February, engineers Andy Nguyen and Calle Svensson got the device to run PPSSPP, an emulator that let it run PSP games, and natively played Grand Theft Auto: Liberty Stories.

At the time, Nguyen said on Twitter that there were no plans to publicly release the exploit. However, Nguyen followed up yesterday saying that they were the ones who reported the issue to PlayStation. While he faced some backlash for that decision, he defended himself saying that if the exploit was released to the public, it was only a matter of time before PlayStation found out and fixed it anyway.

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