The relevant section is blunt. “The Software is licensed to you, not sold,” the EULA states. “You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use on the system or device it was intended for.”
The terms also restrict renting, modifying, or obtaining games through unauthorised means. Nothing in there is new, technically. Sony’s EULA has always said this. The timing is what makes it land differently right now.
Just a reminder that this goes for the OS on the PlayStation too.
You don’t really own hardware that you don’t control either*.
* yeah, you do own the hardware, but if you can’t use it without a software license is it really yours?
I really hope Linux on ps5 happens in a more native way rather than the USB hacks recently brought to light. I’d love to turn my ps5 into my own device.
It being a custom AMD APU will certainly help.
It’s still probably easier than trying to get anything to run on an Arm SOC and fighting device trees.