$700, and the side by sides look barely different, from my perspective. The chat seemed to have the same opinion.

  • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 months ago

    What do I do with my PS5 discs if I buy the Pro one day? Are they just unusable? Will I be able to get a digital copy for free since I already paid them for the disc they stopped supporting?

    It seems like there’s no sane migration path from PS5 with disc drive to the PS5 Pro.

      • CallMeButtLove@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        2 months ago

        I personally find it pretty horrendously insulting they put out a “Pro” console that can’t play the fucking game discs unless you pay them for an additional accessory.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          14·
          2 months ago

          Not a console gamer, but I’m sure they looked at the statistics and saw most players don’t buy a physical disk anyway. Why make the machine more expensive for an accessory that probably isn’t being used. On my computer I haven’t had a physical disk drive in probably 15y and haven’t ever thought that I needed one.

          • MudMan@fedia.io
            3·
            2 months ago

            Well, sure, but that’s also because on PC I can choose to buy DRM-free games and have guaranteed backwards compatibility for the foreseeable future. Plus it’s not a closed system based on a console that launched with a drive. People (me included) already own PS5 discs, not from a previous generation, but from this one. It’s bad enough that I need to keep my PS3 around to play PS3 games, it’d be absurd to not be able to play PS5 games I already own because the thing is physically unable to ingest them out of the box.

            So yeah, for people in that position the Pro is a hundred bucks more expensive than it says on the sticker, which is already a ridiculously high number.