YOU DON'T OWN YOUR PS5!! PSN Hardware Ban 

Why? It is the same for PC. If you get hardware banned, the parts you sell are blocked. Activision Blizzard does this all the time.

its been a thing since ps3

@@4400seriesFAN You can at least play other games (or pirate the ones you can't).

@@4400seriesFAN You can run a HWID spoofer and reset your HWID and you won't be banned anymore, lol at a console guy trying to talk on stuff he doesn't know about.

@threefiveseven You can also become an astronaut. I know that you also have to rely on other users to make tour games playable, too! Funny...

Lol I didn't watch the video, was just looking for this comment

still doesn't make it okay.

What platform in 2001 was doing hardware bans?

A large amount of hardware bans are stolen PS5's. It should be noted that hardware bans are only reserved for people who do some VERY extreme things. A full on console ban is reserved for 1) People who are trying to commit fraud like trying to take over other people's accounts for the purpose of trying to get their credit card info. 2) Console tampering for the purpose of modding the PS5 to play downloaded pirated PS5 games. 3) Stolen PS5's 4) Committing some type of other criminal act, such as someone using PSN for trading illegal images, drug related trade (a lot of it is done through messaging on PSN and then mailing things out to a physical address), some type of other trade involving serious criminal activity, etc. In other words, something very illegal of some sort has to be committed in order for a hardware ban to happen (for normal cases, like someone being a bully in an online game, the worst that will happen is that they might receive an account ban after several violations, but their console will NOT be banned. But for people committing criminal activity, it's going to be a console ban. Which leads to me also saying this: it is a HORRIBLE idea to buy a banned console from someone because it is unknown what type of illegal activity they were doing on that PS5 and they might be selling off that PS5 to remove all physical evidence from themselves onto someone else. Never a good idea to buy a banned console, no matter how cheap it is.

​@johnpenguinthe3rd13 that's what I was thinking too

i love PC gaming, especially the higher refresh rate and the freedom to do anything you want with it. i really appreciate it!! thank you!!

It's not always more expensive

You this is good news, I never new that just just saved someone $299. Keep up the good work but only play with the people you know you well. So you want get BANNED

@@ruvanefriebus-cv6td If you buy used then it's about the same as ps5 or even less expensive if have get free online and ofc piracy. My RX 5700 xt did cost me just $120 last year and it has same perf as PS5 my cpu is from 2017 and still does fine except a few unoptimized titles like Helldivers 2. Launched Ghost of Tsushima yesterday and can play at over 60fps at high no problem and it looks beautiful can play even higher than that thanks to the frame gen i will be testing it next.

Only sad thing is windows problems and tragedy of not optimized games especially on lower budget PCs​@@Snowy3011

I don't think hardware modding related bricking counts.

@@jakehildebrand1824 why would I count that...?

@@Zippy_Zolton because thats what most people are talking about when they say PS3 had hardware bans

@@jakehildebrand1824 I know for sure Xbox 360s could get console banned, but I remember that being a thing for the PS3 too which is why I never wanted to mod it until around 2022

Why? What's so suspicious about it?

@@GameslordXY If you bothered watching the video, you'd realise that the reason why that's suspicious is because suddently people are selling PS5s at pawn shops because they're hardware banned.

@@GameslordXY no one buys them too

of course it's part of planned obsolescence, they want you to buy the ps5 pro, they can ban them for a plethora of very mundane , petty or very insignificant reasons, that is why their tos is very vague and large about what can ban your hardware. it's corpo shlt tactics

Console bans have been a thing since the 360 and PS3

Xbox been doing it for 20 years

If they unban a console, they effectively provide a licence to abusers to continue abusing other people. It would also mean that they are in the abuse bussiness , profiting out of it. I fully support console banning.

@@GameslordXY it also doubles as an anti-theft measure if consoles are stolen from retail.

It can be unbanned with a phone call if you have the receipt for the used console. They did for my Xbox One Laserdisc model

cant you use a friends ps5 with the disc you have, get the update then transfer via usb then transfer usb to your ps5? or jb a ps5 esp if banned anyways

i haven’t heard of sony working on psp 2 unfortunately. i hope they do some day… ik you can do that with steam on your pc and steam deck

I know some games on PS3, PS4, and PS Vita have cross purchase so if you buy it on PS3 or PS4 if there is also a PS Vita version you can play it on your PS Vita as well

I love my old jet engine of a PS4

Sure just let me get the games from any other source other than Sony on my digital PS5. Oh wait...

@@leonardoruse9256 There are many thousands of games, on many a platform. If you want to use Sony Hardware, you must behave on their network. If you buy 2nd hand, as I said before, that is a risk you take, and Sony owes you nothing in that case.

This guys not mistaking, we're pushed to buy systems and they can lock u out of it. You cNt say it dont happen to innocent ppl because I've had notifications complaints were made against me and my online name when there's not been any issue. Further they should not ban systems when they can block party chats. They shouldn't charge u for the system if they are gonna control your system overall.

Steam has never banned someone from their purchases. Only from forums, so essentially a mute.

Just don't do things that would ban you. Now hard is that?

@@GameslordXY It might sound easy at first, but false accusations are a thing.

@@Rspsand07 I probably should have used the Epic Game Store as they banned someone for shopping during a sale. Not sure if they implemented a shopping cart yet or not. However, the reason I didn't was because I'm not a fan of Epic and their spoiled brat approach to gaming of paying for exclusivity deals.

If you have a console and only buy digital then you are simply put, an idiot. Buy console games phydically, then you will have the choice where you want to buy your games. Not to mention the many advantages of physical media.

@AndrewUder ?

Considering its a hardware ban, Im guessing the console gets completely bricked.

This is false, there was never more people online and a dramatic increase in game sales, especially indies, people don't care as much about triple a games or even exclusives, but the overall pool of customers on pc has grow very large since covid, double or triple , so this theory about not making money for devs is cute but it's not true in the globality.

There wont be a crash like in the 80s Modern gamers dont have the mental capacity depth and intelligence to do that

Which PS3? All Fats and Slims can be easily CFW, overclocked (my Slim has a 50% GPU overclock) and play any PS2 games, even non-BC models Just played Shaolin Monks and 007 Everything or Nothing an hour ago on my 2501A

Online service policies only lock you out of online services, a hardware ban would essentially be making the console completely inoperable.

Although I see what your saying, I feel like your view is rather shortsighted. For example, theres nothing stopping people from selling the banned systems at full price without telling you that its hardware banned. So what happens, when someone gets scammed into buying an unusable console at full price without any chance of a refund, or any way to make the console usable? Or what happens if they start handing out hardware bans for things like offensive or vulgar language, even when in private party voice chat, which they have admitted to monitoring?(The majority of CoD players, GTA players, Rainbow 6 Siege players, and Fortnite kids consoles would be wiped out overnight). Or what happens when Playstation inevitably accidentally bans someone who hasn't done anything wrong, costing them hundreds of dollars. What about when the consoles start getting older and people's consoles get banned because a replacement part or parts unknowingly came from a console that was banned? Or what about people whos consoles get banned because the person who repaired the console wasn't an "approved" technician? Not everyone lives a block away from a Playstation technical support center. Sonys actions won't just punish rule breakers, it will also wreak havoc on second hand buyers, repair shops, and in the future the Playstation community as a whole. Also, its not the same thing as when some wannabe hacker bricks their console trying to hack it because they don't know what they're doing, thats on them.

@jakehildebrand1824 most people will buy a new console. Those who buy things second hand really have to use there own sense. Someone could buy a broken ps5 at full price and deal with the same consequences. You wouldn't blame Sony for them not making it aware to a second hand buyer. You see at some point, there has to be an extreme punishment to violators. Or they will never be punished. Sure, there could be accidents. But how small the pool of consoles are being permabanned and how many of those would be accidents. Sure Sony could abuse there power. But if they did. People would find out and stop buying there product. I have an xbox. I don't really go in thinking I'm going to have the console repaired a bunch of times. I buy a product and then I'm going to use it until it breaks or it can't play current games. By the time my console malfunctions I'm going to either wait for a next gen console or buy the new one. Alot of your reply was basic on "what if Sony is a horrible company that abuses there power". If people actually thought that they wouldn't buy there product. Sony loses money every time they would permiban an account or console If it wasn't hacked. Because people are buying there games, controllers, buying subscriptions and they are profiting. That is a company's main goal is profit. At some point when a company becomes really big they have to plan for every senerio. A permaban being probably the most extreme. Also second hand consoles are just a gamble anyway. They could go any time. Even if they are repaired. Other parts can die and Sony can't garentee it will last. Sony actually says that there consoles only last a few years even tho there products are known for lasting a very long time. My ps4 is 10 years old and I think it was said that they should only last like 3. Probably most kids end up breaking them by bumping into them or mistreating them. (Spilling liquid on them). But they treat like they were malfunctions because they dont have any other data.

Do you mean emulating another PSID or actually unban?

Thats a software ban, not a hardware ban.

@@jakehildebrand1824 No I'm talking about a hardware ban they basically fry certain parts of the system to make sure you can't connect the system to their network anymore so those parts need replacing and once you do you are free to connect again as if nothing happened it's an extremely difficult repair but it can be done

@@AzaiaMonota2 thats assuming the parts aren't paired to the console like the parts of an apple phone are.

the good old ps3 days

that game deserves a remaster or a sequel

@@Snowy3011 It won't happen, that game wasn't appreciated enough. Warhawk came out 5 years earlier and its servers lasted longer than Starhawk's.

Except, after you get banned on enough accounts, they IP ban you, and ban your Email address, preventing you from making new accounts. Also, there absolutely SHOULD be a way to get the hardware unbanned having no way to do so opens up tons of immediate and future problems. Furthermore like you said, people are willing to spend thousands of dollars to cheat, so what makes you think they wont just buy a new console when the one they have gets banned?

They are not excessive. If someone is abuser,all it would need to do is open another account and continue doing it. How many accounts can you open on one PS5? And how much do you think unbanning licence should cost? Sony could earn huge money in banning and unbanning people. Imagine the backlash after people realizing it. No, banning consoles is the right thing to do👍

@@GameslordXY @GameslordXY sure ban the persons console but when a new person buys it thinking its all good and it turns out to be useless then we have an issue. You say its neccesary but what about the people getting scammed into buying a banned console? Something has to be done about that.

@@GameslordXY tell that to all the people who got scammed into buying a banned console

it’s cheaper/you can make money, if you do it the right way

big faxs

They don't ban you for fun. Is it so hard to avoid following the rules of conduct? It's their service,their rules. When they ban people,they knowingly give up on potential money those users might spend on their service, so I wouldn't call it greed,but quite the contrary. And there are Free To Play games on PlayStation that you do not need PlayStation plus for.

Well many people are not aware of those old HP workstations + the ability to throw in new GPU. GPUs you mentioned would likely need to be used , just like those workstations. Depending on how old they are , that can mean no warranty. You also give up on simplicity of a console. Now that may not be a big deal for you , but it is to many,many people. And vast majority of people can follow rules of conduct just fine.

@@GameslordXY - I hope you get paid by Sony and not sucking them off voluntarily.

Meanwhile PC users pay hundreds of dollars every year to get the latest Intel or RTX, while also dealing with worse DRM measures and a more clunky experience. Just don't break the rules.

The only 'lesson' anyone who's had their console banned will learn is to avoid Sony products like a plague. There's so much wrong with the concept of bricking consoles for the sake of punishment, it's difficult to know where to begin. Firstly the terms of service (& online 'offenses' in chat etc.) are highly subjective. We all know how it works. People can get accused of everything. Secondly the legality of all seems like absolute bullsh*t. It's straight up tyranny by a woke corporation.

@@cartermoth6447 - I've never even been banned but I refuse to buy a PS5 for this very reason. I had every previous console of theirs including PSP and Vita while also spending thousands on digital purchases during the PS3 and PS4 generations. Once they moved their HQ from Japan to California I started seeing a lot of changes I didn't like and Sony getting increasingly woke. I bit the bullet and built me a PC and i'm never going back.

They don't learn a lesson, they pay a fine by buying another PS5 and go right back to cheating while Soyny pretends they made another PS5 sale instead of actually ridding gaming of the cheater forever.

​@@autobotstarscream765 Sure some will. But not as many as if they could just pay up some tiny amount to have account unlocked or opening new account on same console.

​@@cartermoth6447 Their house,their rules. What's so difficult to understand. Common decency is enough to not get you banned. Is that too much to ask for? Woke-ism has nothing to do about it. It was like that long before woke&anti woke movements started to destroy societies turning everyone against everyone.

i didn’t even think about that, i’ll fix it in the future

Get a PS3 Fat or Slim and hack it. My slim plays any PS2 games I triedso far, PSP as well, Retroarch, cheap bluray player, mine has a 50% GPU overclock as well. Best $50 bucks you will spend There's also a 60FPS build of Mario 64 Bought my Slim last Sunday for $20 only

i miss those games