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I expect the commenter has backed up their owned games to the hard drive so their kid doesn’t need to fiddle with discs damaging them, or has installed homebrew retro games. I expect all online functionality has been shut down anyway so it turns the console into an ad free offline gaming machine.

They are still outputting 720p, but the consoles are good value for kids.