In the UK, You Can't Buy a PS5 Pro Disc Drive without Paying a Premium

Yea scalpers are scum. I've created an alert on Hotstock app to notify me when any store restocks it as the normal price.

I've seen a few on eBay here in the States for around $130 which is still too much to pay but wow, 400 quid is crazy. You'd think surely they'll replenish stock soon what with Christmas coming up.

Scalpers are seriously awful, a little bit of profit i could still understand. Hey, thats the game. But the nerve to ask those prices. All decency is lost to these people

And this is why the console itself should come with one or at the very least they should have held back stock on their own site, so anyone buying a Pro can add the disc drive to the transaction.

Luckily I saw this coming and secured my disc drive a while back

Scalpers are a cancerous blight that need to be removed

@get2sammyb You would assume some are on a slow boat from China based on demand.

As for your own use of the disc drive I have a genuine question. Surely you get review code of many games and that would rather negate some of the need. Is that a fair assessment?

Such a shame, I knew the Pro wouldn't be scalped because of the price so I suppose they went for the next best thing - the disc drive, thankfully got mine as soon as it was announced but not fair on those that didn't

As I said in another article, I just tipped on the pro today. I learnt that the drives were gold dust very soon after that

I'm trying to buy one for 2 months, but it was not in stock anywhere for months and wont be available until at least December.

A solution would be to buy PS5 Slim (used one ideally) with the drive, take it out and sell the PS5 Slim without the drive. But not many PS5 Slim with drive on the market as well

Glad I got my daughters one for Christmas (@rrp) before the madness kicked in

Got mine from CEX using a voucher I already had. The extra £15 isn't too bad when u get a 2 year warranty. Though think they've now changed it to 5 years!

Everybody's gotta make a buck, but at some point it just becomes pure greed and praying on the desperate/weak willed.

Shabby behaviour.

I would imagine this isn't a difficult component for them to have manufactured, so why it's so hard to secure one when two sku's require it is bizarre.

@get2sammyb I think they seriously underestimated the demand dir the disc drives. As it’s not good for accessory’s to accumulate in stock for any company. But I’m pleased that pro owners want the physical media.

@get2sammyb It's certainly helped with a buddy's impulse control - he was gonna walk in and buy a Pro at the weekend, but has a big ol' pile of discs, so he's sticking with his launch PS5 now.

He's probably atypical of a lot of Pro buyers, but I do wonder how many others this is putting off a sale.

@LogicStrikesAgain yea unfortunately there is no way to regulate this. As that would involve interference by the government or company. And we don’t need more oversight TBH. Sucks that there are those that seek to make a huge profit on every little thing because they are so money driven. Hopefully Sony has enough in production presently.

Doesn't impact me 😁😁😁

@Intr1n5ic I'd imagine most Slims sold have the disc drive included. The number of people buying a digital-only Slim, then going out to buy a disc drive isn't too big a number (and the number lost and then replaced to disc drive failure must be smaller again).

Play does have a Limit.

I always take stuff like this with a pinch of salt.... just because someone is trying their luck in selling it at that price doesn't mean anyone will actually buy it.... at least I would hope not anyway

It seems like everyone knew this would happen... Except Sony. Or just didn't care. For the payers indeed.

Every Walmart I’ve been to in my area of the US has multiple disc drives in stock at the actual stores.

Seems like they’re plentiful here, so at least Pro purchasers here won’t be screwed!

@get2sammyb Sony sell most of the stock to retailers so aim that request to them.

I would love a company like Sony to completely screw the scalpers one time by deliberately flooding the market with a load of stock they had been secretly holding back at a reduced price just so all the scalpers get stuck with hundreds or thousands of pounds of products that nobody needs. Not gonna happen but still....

Scalpers lower my opinion of humanity.

Let's not forget the lack-wits who pay through the nose to line the scalpers pockets. Without their support they'd have no reason to do it.

I bought a disc drive as soon as they announced the pro from Argos, they had loads in stock….day later all gone. Don’t know if I’ll end up using it, was going to give it to my wife to give me for Christmas

*in Europe and Oceania

New stock is due about the first of December 2024.
The USA PS Direct store is already restocked.

@MrPeanutbutterz Yeah probably, but they're still leaving money on the table by not ensuring it's availability for both.

@dskatter fancy shipping one over 😂

@OldGamer999 the US restock is what gives me hope that one will happen in EU soon.
Still, no Direct here means I'll have to hunt for one at retailers, who have also been raising the price.

I have to wait buying a Pro, because of this sh... I mostly buy physical so I actually couldn't play any games because the lack of disc drive. I think Sony should have paid more attention to manufacturing enough disc drives on launch... I hope it will be back in stock, at least on Sony direct, so I can get both.

This is entirely on Sony.

They have to produce more of these drives. They say they're offering a choice to their consumers : well, then, give them the option to buy it ! Produce more drives !

It's impossible to not suspect there's a clear intent, here, to force people to go full digital.

I know that the days of physical media are counted. I know. But as long as I'll have the option, I'll take that one. I'll take the disc, and the box. Even if the game is not entirely on disc, yeah, I know that, too.

And I'll do the same with movies. It's just my choice, the way I like to buy these things.

Personally, I was really lucky to get a drive at my local gameshop, the day I went to preorder the console itself. But I see on reddit all of these poor folks who won't be able to play their collection of games on their new console... because there's no drive available !

Not cool, Sony. Produce more drives, please. Give us a choice. At least for this gen, once more.

PS : oh, and DO NOT BUY FROM SCALPERS.

If no one buy from these guys, they just loose. Do not buy from them. Just wait, check and search. Good luck to you, pals...

One thing people are failing to realise about the disc drive is that buying one means your PS5 Pro is now a 4K Blu-Ray player which adds massive value just in itself. For £700 that’s the least you can ask, never mind having to pay £800 or even more if stock issues persist.

If people wait anf dont buy them from scalpers, then said scalpers will be stuck with the drives when Sony restocks - therefore they will lose money, and poetic justice will be served.

Got mine from Currys last month knowing this would happen

@get2sammyb I still think offering a “Pro” console without a disc drive is an insult as the know only enthusiasts will buy that console, so they know most people buying the Pro would also buy the disc drive and they couldn’t even bother to have it in stock…

I can survive on existing digital ownership/Plus for a while but it would be nice to have one by Christmas.

And that my friends, is why you buy the disc drive early, thankfully not an issue to me, but I hope SONY get more stock out soon for those needing one last minute.

Sony should allow a External Blu-ray Drive to be enabled I mean c'mon SONY word on the street is there is more excitement for the Switch 2 get yur freaking act together fer gawds sake...stwpid fwlls.

@IOI Supply and demand are notoriously tricky to balance, especially when shelves are already well stocked. Seperate drives are only a small proportion of drives made as most are going into machines at the factory.

I’m not suggesting Sony couldn’t have done better, some official idea of when to expect restocks would be nice but this is a difficult thing to balance. Not everyone has Apple’s skill at getting production to match demand.

@Number09 simple, piracy and system security. The same reason they made it impossible to backup ps5 saves (ps4 save hacking enabled exploits as well as cheating)

Sony caries as much blame as the scalpers. They could easily tackle the problem, especially because they already sold the drives to scalpers, but they choose not to, because I believe it's both beneficial for scalpers and Sony.

@Bobobiwan

I think Sony just underestimated the number they needed, rather than any wilful act.

This will likely be because of few reasons including:

They know that far fewer physical copies of games are being sold now, but possibly didnt factor in purchasers historical physical collections for which they still require drives.

Some, and probably more than they thought, will buy the drive just to use their console as a blu-ray player.

Maybe there is a higher than the norm % of physical purchasers within the group that are interested in Pro.

@LowDefAl we all lose out to scalpers n piracy summit gotta change.

Wouldn't be an issue, if the premium console came with Disc Drive as part of it. This is an embarrassment.

The ps5 pro disc drive is available on PlayStation direct sites in the usa.sony is wrong for not including the disc on it.word up son

@ThroughTheIris56 Embarrassment is a bit far fetched, an annoyance maybe, but we do live in a digital age so you can't blame companies for moving away from a dying market (most sales are digital these days)

I myself am a disc collector but most of my friends only stick to digital and don't care for their drives, a sign of the times!

GAME in Eastleigh have them in stock at RRP behind the counter. They may not be online but worth checking physical locations. They are also available currently on the Argos website

@get2sammyb Is that not the figures that include Xbox? Which obviously sells less discs due to Game Pass mentality?

I only want one for playing blu-ray movies, all my games are digital now. I can wait.
Scalpers can go take a running jump into the nearest cesspit.

Retailers should control how their stock is sold to prevent scalpers screwing over consumers. The government should introduce legislation to stop them.