Yesterday, Sony formally unveiled the PlayStation 5 Professional after months of rumors and leaks. The souped-up console will value $700, allow you to play many video games at larger body charges, 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 Professional and the response was lots of people going, “Holy shit, $700?” combined with folks going “Wait, it doesn’t include a disc drive?” Nope! Just like the Xbox Collection S and PS5 Digital Version, the PS5 Professional doesn’t embrace a disc drive. However Sony does supply an elective optical drive that you would be able to purchase for about $80 and slap onto your PS5. And this drive will work on the PS5 Professional.
Within the 24 hours because the PS5 Professional’s official reveal, it has turn out to be tougher to purchase a PS5 Blu-ray drive. At the moment Amazon, Greatest Purchase, and Goal are offered out. Over at Walmart, based on 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 at the moment. In the meantime, on Amazon, the PS5 disc drive is the fifth best-selling video game-related merchandise and is at the moment outselling bodily copies of Astro Bot.
Not all shops have offered out but. As of this writing, it appears GameStop nonetheless has a number of as I used to be ready 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 number of folks from already attempting to flip the disc drive on eBay for greater than its retail value.
Pre-orders for the PS5 Professional are deliberate to go reside on September 26. Between from time to time 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 earlier than resellers snatch them up and attempt to promote them for 5x their retail value. Good luck on the market, people!
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