PS5 jailbreak rumor explodes the price of an old Star Wars game

Jailbreaking a video game console is a big deal: Once hackers can do it, they can push their hardware to perform actions it wasn’t originally programmed for. The latest generation of video game hardware had seemed impenetrable to these efforts up until very recently, when a group of hackers says they’re on the precipice of breaking the PlayStation 5 wide open. The caveat? The hardware tinkerers say they need a highly specific game to pull a jailbreak off. That game is none other than the PlayStation 4 version of a 2002 game called Star Wars: Racer Revenge.

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