PizzaStation 5 Development Pizza Kit sold for $6,500 — thinly-disguised Sony PS5 dev kit slips past Sony
Complete with a slice of frozen pizza and a spatula sporting a PlayStation logo
Eat my pizza if old.
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PizzaStation 5 Development Pizza Kit by Sony sold for $6,500
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Eat my pizza if old.
Yup useless brick sadly since all dev kits now days have to be authorized by external servers.
Wait, typically? Are studios frequently being broken into? Am I weird for thinking it seems wild that this is among the most common reasons for a dev kit going up for sale?
Someone will try to crack it. And even if they can't, the novelty alone will mean people will still pay money for it.
Robbed in the sense that a dev took the kit without authorization, I think.
If the right person with the right skillset has physical access to the machine, they'll be able to make it at least do something. I would imagine any hardware like this having a phone home mechanism in it where if it doesn't talk to the mothership every so often then it will lock itself down.
Or shut down, as also mentioned. Seems pretty likely considering how things have been going.
I remember seeing the exact same news from 2021.
View: https://x.com/manfightdragon/status/1438326205187432448
View: https://x.com/manfightdragon/status/1438326205187432448
Yep lol. Dev kits require a secure whitelisted IP address to operate.
Welp that happened 3 years ago and still no news on that soo...
What is the risk if the dev kit is made public? Never understood why they need to be kept secret.
(genuine question, zero snark intended).
(genuine question, zero snark intended).
It's probably more likely that a developer who got laid off had a dev kit at home and gave it to a mate to shift. Which yes, is then stolen property.
Honestly, nothing. They might have some unreleased firmware on with some feature set that hasn't been made public yet - but that's quite rare.
They're big paper weights outside of being used professionally with the check in to Sony Servers.
I'm surprised these things don't have 5G built into them with geo location on and once it goes somewhere it's not when powered on it gets locked or wiped
You can find them on pretty much all european market's frozen aisles.
They auto activate themselves via sony servers every couple of days, and its only possible to activate from a whitelisted IP address.
Once the activation runs out they turn into a brick, so they pretty much already have that, just with a day or so's delay.
