PS5 Pro Prompts Sony's Disc Drive to Rocket Up the Charts

Sony must be making a killing on these disc drives, I wouldn't imagine it cost a lot to produce.

I have used the disc drive on my PS5 once. Spiderman 2. Bought it, got the platinum, sold it 6 days later. Not gonna miss a disc drive.

I am not gonna lie, I had to hunt one down as I started to see them vanishing from online stores. Local game shop had my back.

@Americansamurai1 nothing costs a lot to produce compared to RRP. A £1500 iPhone costs about a tenth of that to make, according to leaks from Apple. And that'll go for the vast majority of mass produced products. If Sony are killing it it's because they've created a demand, so fair play.

Flexibility would have been to offer 2 different models.

One at £700 with a drive and then maybe a cheaper one without

The way they've done it feels like an insult making an already expensive product even more expensive

@Member_the_game and the one with a drive would cost the same as a Pro and a DD, and the cost of that would, at a physiological level, be percieved as too expensive. Far more so than the Pro. I see why they've done this way. It makes business sense. The flexibility still exists.

Even though I mostly do my gaming digitally nowadays I still have a lot of PS4 games physically. If for nothing else I'd still want a disc drive for backwards compatibility.

I'm not in the market for a PS5 Pro so I didn't get a disc drive since I still use my launch PS5 but if PS6 did the same thing PS5 is doing currently and selling it separately I will do my best to get one.

I picked one up for my PS5 Pro as I always buy games physically when available. I have even been picking up physical editions of games I already own digitally just in case I lose access one day. For example, Like A Dragon Gaiden The Man Who Erased His Name was only released digitally is the US so I went and bought a physical Japanese copy from Play Asia. Call me crazy, but I like to revisit my old games when some time has passed.

@riceNpea

Personally I would have preferred the option to buy one with a disc drive as standard rather than being forced into buying it as an "optional" extra

Just to note California passed a law to prevent “buy it now” or “purchase “ as you do not own the game.
I have a handful of digital games, but owning the physical is by far better for your own purchase protection.

I was one of those bemoaning a lack of a disc drive option with the pro. I feel for £700 Sony could have swallowed that cost.

However, from the other side of the fence the fact that digital customers aren't forced to buy a console with a drive they won't use is good but making it detachable also allows for a change of heart and no buyers remorse at making the wrong choice.

It also eliminates a point of failure for the console which is admittedly a pretty good idea.

I get the upset but it isn't all bad is all I'm saying.

I'm not saying I agree with them not including it on the Pro.. but I will say I've had two disc drives go back in my PS5. I only use it for movies, but tend to use it at least once a week. The first one was a launch PS5 and the disc drive just stopped ejecting discs and scratched the hell out of them... the second was still the 'phat' model, but that disc drive is now flakey where it works sometimes, but often takes like 10-30 re-insertions.

It's at least nice these ones are swappable/replaceable if it fails..... more modularity is a good thing imo

@Member_the_game I get it, but essentially it's the same thing. The price would reflect the DD addition, so effectively selling a Pro at a single price point is a much smarter thing for Sony to do. Also, PS5 bring modular is FAR better than 2 options of PS5 Pro.

The shameless marketing via Push Square continues...

I probably wont bother with a drive as i have been mostly digital a good few years, so im glad its optional. I dont want to pay more for the drive so glad they have costed it without, but its good its there for those that do.

I'm currently at 173 PS5 discs so I sure as hell got one. Got more than double that on PS4 too so it was a no brainer.

@KundaliniRising333 An article on a PS-centric site about how the disc drive is selling well is “shameless marketing?”

@KundaliniRising333 yeah who'd have thought a PlayStation site would talk about a new console... utter b*&tards!

It is so nice of them to include this option. It wouldn't have been too much to ask for people to repurchase their non-digital games, after all.

Honestly, it is a steal at that price, and aesthetically you could argue that it completes the 'look'.

Plus there's like a complementary box with it with limitless potential for application.

Don't really need one when my Pro arrives.

@Mikey856 I'm really not fussed about physical anymore. Digital is just easier for me because I use remote play often. As for revisiting old games, we have backward compatibility now and anything pre PS4 I just emulate.

@Medic_alert @dskatter

oh I'm sorry, I was unaware that this was a sponsored site. When you Google the URL it doesn't have sponsored in front of it so.... I guess I should not have assumed this was just a PlayStation fan/news site with some level of journalistic integrity free from bias or financial interests influencing narratives?

My bad thanks for clearing that up though. 👍

@KundaliniRising333 what is sponsored about reporting sales figures?

Stop being so sensitive