Perhaps the latest ps4 firmware It has brought quite big problems, but it seems that behind all that endless list of bugs, crashes and even console crashes, there was a great intention on the part of Sony. And it is that as they have been able to discover in the channel of Modern Vintage Gamer, it seems that the company included a long-awaited fix in the update.
When you run out of internal battery
An old problem has haunted the old PS4 for a long time, and that is that a security measure imposed by Sony ended up becoming a very important handicap for those users who did not have an internet connection. To find the problem, a very special condition had to be met, since the CR2032 battery that hides the console inside it must have been completely exhausted.
This is a fairly specific case, and it must be taken into account that its solution is a simple replacement of the internal battery, the price of which does not exceed a couple of euros in the worst case (you have to disassemble the console, yes). That these types of batteries exhaust their internal capacity is something quite strange, but in the event of this, the console would lose the ability to display trophies and, what is worse, the ability to run digital and physical games when it is not available. Internet connection.
After all, it was a method of DRM protection that prevented users from running signed code without an internet connection. It is a measure that ensures the security of the platform, but that directly affects the usability and experience of any user.
Problem solved
Well, Sony has finally decided to solve this problem, and it has done so completely silently. Apparently the last 9.00 update of PS4 has included the necessary changes so that when the console runs out of internal battery, both the trophies and the games run without problems. In the case of trophies, they will continue to appear and be unlocked, with the only peculiarity that no date is recorded for obvious reasons (the battery was in charge of keeping the console's internal clock alive).
Is it really a problem we should worry about?
As we have mentioned, for a battery with these characteristics to run out of battery is something quite unusual, but you have to think in the long term, since a console could be stored for years until one day you dare to remember old moments. In that case you could find yourself with the problem of not being able to run any game, and quite possibly with the impossibility of updating the console to solve the problem.
And it is that you never know when the retro gamer in you is going to get homesick, so it will be better to prepare things for the future to avoid encountering irreversible problems.