STARSBarry
Gold Member
wait are people having issues with this? I just ordered one with my PS5 Pro and it came before it did.
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The PS5 disc drive stock situation is embarrassing
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asdasdasdbb
Member
Availability isn't great now... although I think OP is mad he bought the Pro to scalp when he should have bought the drive.
I think others are correct that the supply will be back by December.
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Fake
Member
And if they ever do this I'll 100% go full the next Nintendo Switch.
Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
I dont understand whats up with Sony this gen, they are making some weird anti-consumer choices as if they actively want turn people off from their brand.....I dont get it.
BlitzerRadic
Member
One thing I learned as a regular Costco shopper: If you see something you like and can pay for it, just go ahead and buy it because the next time you come back to buy it may no longer be in stock.
metareferential
Member
They know they don't have competition.
We went from Sony mocking Ms on the used games situation to this.
Tech companies follow the route to enshittification.
Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
All the details on the PS5 Pro were leaked months before it was officially on sale.
If you're a customer who has to have something on launch, you should have taken steps.
It is absolutely your problem.
It wasn't one day, it was weeks.
Bojji
Member
Good luck WHEN internal SSD breaks.
Physical is the best advantage of consoles vs. PC. Once that is gone PC market is much better when it comes to digital games than greedy Sony. You have one store and zero options for refunds on PS.
Fuck off with advice like that.
Lack of competition? They are anti consumer as fuck, I was their fanboy for years but it really doesn't make any sense, anymore...
People are defending EVERY anti consumer decision they make, they are that loyal, while sony fuck them in the ass.
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RyanEvans21
Member
Bought the disc drive when sony announced the PS5 Pro and planning to buy it.
RyanEvans21
Member
CuteFaceJay
Member
I'd be interested to know if any old external BluRay drive would work? You're in the UK so take a look at Scan and test it if it doesn't work just return the drive.
The content isn't being streamed from these blurays anymore as it's installed to the SSD and they only use the disc to auth the license so USB drive should work no?
The content isn't being streamed from these blurays anymore as it's installed to the SSD and they only use the disc to auth the license so USB drive should work no?
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rofif
Can’t Git Gud
Internal ssd will outlive disc drive.
It's anecdotal but I never had any ssd fail on me yet
bender
What time is it?
Jim Ryan shot J.R. Ewing.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
PS players will switch to digital instead of other platforms. that i can be sure
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Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
Not how it works. If you connected a USB accessory it just wouldn't detect it and if you tried to hardwire a different drive it won't recognize the firmware either.
Someone tried to hardwire a disc drive from a launch PS5 to a launch digital PS5... didn't work.
Kamina
Golden Boy
recursive
Member
You didn't pre order one with your ps5 pro pre order?
Sure by that logic they wanted to buy a PS5 but it was out of stock and they had to settle for a series s at launch. And never looked for a PS5 ever again. I mean yes there's prob some people on planet Earth that did that. But it's not common. Somethings not available, they wait, it becomes available, they buy. Now a series s, there is no disc option, so they truly are locked into a digital only platform.
Or demand for the PS5 pro is healthy and many of those buyers want a disk drive to play their physical collection despite a bunch of folk claiming we need to immediately embrace our "glorious all digital future"?
Bojji
Member
It WILL happen, SSDs are not known for durability. Probably x years from now but SSD is used all the time while disc drive only when installing games and starting them for a moment.
When SSD dies you need to change whole motherboard, when disc drives dies in old PS5 you only need to change disc drive part.
Pre order Pro to play old patched games? This is what people are doing right now. I played all those games before on PC or PS5.
I play Metaphor now, on disc... Pro in current form is useless peace of hardware for me. And it's a shame because Metaphor has nice fps upgrade.
Once some big ass exclusive launches and disc drive situation is sorted, why not?
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
Most people buying digital are buying into the ability to redownload. I don't think anyone is claiming harddrives are going to last forever. The point of digital is your whole house can burn to the ground and all you need to do is pick up a $500 console and log in and you got all the rest there.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
I don't think you could change the old disc drive as they are keyed together with some serial number.
Bojji
Member
Point is, you need to essentialy buy new console because SSD is soldered to MB. On PS4 you just needed to change HDD, the same on PC.
You can use part of old drive to make new drive work:
Sooner
Member
Ok, you keep believing physical games on consoles is here to stay. Enjoy your collection of unusable discs.
BlitzerRadic
Member
asdasdasdbb
Member
That's actually a decent point but the SSDs should be reliable enough to last the lifecycle.
But that would be a decent enough reason to say avoid buying a used PS5 when the PS6 is released.
Gambit2483
Member
If PS6 doesn't have a physical version I'm going to have to seriously consider leaving Sony as a customer.
There's litterally nothing good about digital aside from the small convenience of not disc changing.
ReBurn
Gold Member
Nope, that doesn't work. It would have been too easy.
Bojji
Member
Oh I don't expect Sony to keep physical for much longer, they showed what they will do already but this doesn't mean I will just suck it up.
Switch 2 will have physical market for many, many years while PC has much better digital market.
My guy, the way you all up in these PS5 Pro threads acting like some salty ass female
Am I wrong about something? You mean you can only be a cheerleader on this forum?
Yeah it will be few years, but I expect something like with PS3 YLOD or Xbox RROD, most consoles will die at some point.
Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
I presume Sony could pretty easily release a firmware update that allows the PS5 to run off of the expansion drive. I think this is a bit of fear-mongering which isn't particularly new from you. Worst case scenario, the out of warranty repair on these is like 250.
Bojji
Member
They probably can do it. But will they?
asdasdasdbb
Member
I dunno.. it is more convenient, don't have to go out or deal with shipping. And the main attraction of physical (getting the game decently cheaper) isn't as easy as it was.
Venom Snake
Member
They released a product for what they call a "core customer" without a component that fuckton of "core customers" use because that's what statistics suggest.
Without ensuring a sufficiently large supply of it.
Maybe it was my fault that i waited a day too long (because they disappeared from the shelves in Poland so quickly) and i didn't really feel like ordering stuff overseas, for many different reasons. Just like i didn't want to pay scalpers double or triple the retail price. My mistake for not acting quickly enough just because someone screwed up.
Because the wide and trouble-free availability of the consoles themselves suggests that the negligence does not lie with our outlets, they did what they could do.
You may see it differently, but for me, buying something day one shouldn't mean such inconveniences. Maybe they should also start releasing drives for the ps6 so we can all blind buy them now before they disappear shortly before the next generation starts.
Of course, it's not the end of the world, even if the situation clears up in the next few weeks (which i doubt), for now i will buy something on psstore instead.
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I just bought one from gamestop, I had to join pro which cost $10.
Whatever they do there is always fear mongering and cries of 'anticonsumer' by these folk. The craziest thing about this new conspiracy by these PC regulars is that at the launch of PS5 people were saying that they were anticonsumer because the digital edition PS5 console was artificially not being supplied enough vs the disc version "because they wanted to make $100 more on the PS5 disc edition", of course. Even though they would have locked them entirely into digital "where they would make much more money", correct? Now though the anticonsumer move is NOT making $100 more and very temporarily locking them into digital with the choice of going physical whenever they want.
You couldn't make this shit up.
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Bojji
Member
People like having choice, who would have thought? Limited supply of one version/disc drive/analog stick will always be bad when demand is high. Sony is fucking up and all blame is on consumers, you guys are like Ubisoft CEO lol.
Did I blame the consumer for anything? Nope. Just Scalpers. But your "anticonsumer" conspiracy still doesn't make any sense and is even completely contradictory to previous conspiracies of so called "anticonsumer" behaviour during launch.
Bojji
Member
Maybe not you but some said that consumers should have bought drives 6 months ago when they were available, that people that didn't even know that Pro will be digital only at the time are at fault...
I wasn't here when consoles launched but Sony was losing money on every unit sold and they were losing MORE money on DE consoles, 500$ disc edition was less painful for them. It would be logical for them to limit supply of DE consoles.
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So you actually believe that at the same time?! Who would have thought!
They were charging $100 less for removal of the disc drive (meaning even less cost on BOM). Guess how much they're losing by not selling a £100 disc drive now. More than $100. "Oh but they would make more than that back because people would have to buy digital for a few weeks". But they wouldn't have on a launch PS5 digital that's locked into it for life? Craziness. The situation is shitty with stock and scalpers but your conspiracies are nonsensical.
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BlitzerRadic
Member
Everything you said is just your opinion. And who said anything about having to be a cheerleader? If you dont agree with something fine whatever. But what you doing is going to every PS5 Pro thread yapping non stop about shit that dont affect you. How fucking sad is it that you got major bitch eating crackers energy for a game console lmao
Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
Imagine making up an entire fantasy when there is evidence to the contrary.
6 months? We knew in August and it was confirmed early in September. There was a thread that shit was selling out.
Sony raised the price of the Digital PS5 (something that I called before it happened). While you think it is logical for them to limit the supply, the reality is you're talking small ball. Drives will be back in stock in December and January, and by spring, no one will ever care that it was sold out at launch, nor will it have any real impact on digital vs physical game sales.
Bojji
Member
So you actually believe that at the same time?! Who would have thought!
They were charging $100 less for removal of the disc drive (meaning even less cost on BOM). Guess how much they're losing by not selling a £100 disc drive now. More than $100. "Oh but they would make more than that back because people would have to buy digital for a few weeks". But they wouldn't have on a launch PS5 digital that's locked into it for life? Craziness. The situation is shitty with stock and scalpers but your conspiracies are nonsensical.
Sony Says $499 PS5 No Longer Sells at a Loss
Sony has also managed to secure enough chips to hit its 22 million console sales target this fiscal year.
For Sony disc drive was cheap, much harder to sell that SoC for 400$ and make profit...
Pro announcement was ~2 months ago. People didn't knew about disc drive thing before that and of course once Cerny showed the console (DE only) drives were gone in 24h in many places...
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Why are you posting this? Nobody disputes that there was a loss on consoles but your conspiracy theory relies on the idea that Sony is happy to lose £100 sales by not supplying disc drives because they would make more than that back by "forcing" people to go digital (for a few weeks). The launch DE PS5 would have a lower BOM cost so Sony would have to recoup even less than $100 from "forcing" a lifetime of digital only sales in comparison with launch digital only PS5s. Yet you believe they favoured the less than $100 extra upfront from selling a disc version console. You dont seem to see how contradictory these two ideas of yours are.Sony Says $499 PS5 No Longer Sells at a Loss
Sony has also managed to secure enough chips to hit its 22 million console sales target this fiscal year.www.pcmag.com
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Bojji
Member
In 2020 they weren't as obsessed with digital as they are now. They preferred to lose less money on disc version over forcing consumers to buy digital. Times (and prices) have changed, they now have profitable digital console from day one.
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Sony knows what they’re doing. They know that the PS5 Disc console outsold the digital console. They also know they make more money off digital sales.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Pretty sure everyone knows inside their hearts for quite a while.
Fighting against Sony's digital push is futile. In the future, full digital will be normalized and a second nature for consoles and nobody will care at all, just like paying to play online on consoles.
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Mister Wolf
Member
They no longer have competition.