Clickbait. Dude bought a $5 used game disc and couldn’t play it because the PS5 Pro doesn’t have a disc drive.
I’ve got about 40 PS4 games on a shelf and a smattering of PS5 ones. […] I do need a PS5 disc drive.
Its a fair issue.
(Not a surprising one, the all digital console does what it says on the tin.)
But it is a fair issue to raise as a defect with the proposal the Pro offers.
It’s a valid POV. My take is opposite: All the CDs and DVDs I ever bought will eventually fail to work, the disc drives will fail to work too. My Steam account is 21 years old. I can still play games I bought 21 years ago, even on my Steam Deck and desktop Linux PCs.
It’s not really new though. They launched with a digital only PS5, too, for the same reason (to create a lower price to entry for the same hardware). If they’d just priced it at $800 with the disk drive included, would people be happier?
The reality is that their margins aren’t high. The PS4 Pro might not have had the same premium, but it was using very old tech that they were able to get prices down over time on. Their chip costs haven’t gone down this generation because of the world around them. The Pro is still a high end chip on a manufacturing process with lots of demand. It wasn’t going to cost less. It couldn’t.
