Yesterday, Sony formally unveiled the PlayStation 5 Pro after months of rumors and leaks. The souped-up console will value $700, let you play many games at higher frame rates, and doesn’t include a disc drive. That final half has seemingly led to lots of people shopping for up PS5 disc drives, main in flip to the console accent promoting out on many websites.
On September 10, Sony introduced the PS5 Pro and the response was lots of people going, “Holy shit, $700?” blended with folks going “Wait, it doesn’t come with a disc drive?” Nope! Just like the Xbox Collection S and PS5 Digital Version, the PS5 Professional doesn’t embody a disc drive. However Sony does provide an optionally available optical drive which you could purchase for about $80 and slap onto your PS5. And this drive will work on the PS5 Professional.
Within the 24 hours for the reason that PS5 Professional’s official reveal, it has turn into tougher to purchase a PS5 Blu-ray drive. At the moment Amazon, Greatest Purchase, and Goal are bought out. Over at Walmart, in response to the shop’s tracker, 100+ folks have purchased a PS5 drive within the final day or so. One other 200+ folks have it of their cart presently. In the meantime, on Amazon, the PS5 disc drive is the fifth best-selling video game-related item and is presently outselling bodily copies of Astro Bot.
Not all shops have bought out but. As of this writing, it appears GameStop still has a few as I used to be in a position so as to add one to my cart and begin the acquisition course of. The official PlayStation retailer appears to nonetheless have them in inventory, too. That hasn’t stopped a few people from already trying to flip the disc drive on eBay for greater than its retail worth.
Pre-orders for the PS5 Professional are deliberate to go dwell on September 26. Between every now and then I think about it’ll solely get tougher to safe a PS5 disc drive as folks planning on getting a PS5 Professional attempt to purchase one now before resellers snatch them up and attempt to promote them for 5x their retail worth. Good luck on the market, of us!
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