Tidligere på året gjorde adskillige tech-entusiaster opmærksom på, at PlayStation 4-konsollen måske var blevet designet med en ret bizar fejl. Maskinens interne CMOS-batteri lod nemlig til at diktere om hvorvidt konsollen ville tillade at starte spil, fysiske såvel som digitale. I princippet var dette batteris eneste job at værne om maskinens interne ur, som eksempelvis kan forhindre baguddateringen af Trophies.
Men hvis det her CMOS-batteri gik, af forskellige årsager, så kunne konsollen ikke starte nogen spil overhovedet. Men det er tilsyneladende nu fikset i en ny firmware-opdatering, opdatering 9.0.
Blandt andet Destruction Games har kunne bekræfte, at du nu kan starte og spille spil, selvom dit internet CMOS-batteri er dødt.
"Soooooo it looks like the 9.0 PS4 firmware update fixed the CBOMB issue... Tested it on my PS4 with a dead battery and games are no longer crashing on startup and I can even earn trophies, although the trophy earn dates will be blank. My date when booting my PS4 was 1969 and 5:00PM which is the default date and time the PS4 falls back on with a dead battery, so my battery is definitely still dead. Also here's a pic of a trophy I just earned, with the date and time earned being blank. I have also had a few other people who have tested it themselves say that digital games also work! I don't have any digital games installed on my PS4 so I haven't tested it myself, but that is also very good news if it is true."
