Scalpers are selling out the PS5 Pro disc drive

After the PS5 Pro launch, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was witnessing the end of an era. The murder of the physical format of video games before my eyesand the end of consoles as a form of entertainment for everyone. Microsoft and Nintendo must be jumping for joy, for different reasons.

PlayStation 5 Pro It is a luxury product. The iPhone of consoles. If you want everything you need you have to pay 799 euros for the machine, 120 euros for the disc reader, and 30 euros for the stand. In total, 949 eurosThat’s more than what many people earn in a month.

And be thankful if you can get it at that price. In the United States and other countries, reservations have been opened in some stores, and The disk drive has sold out, most of it in the hands of speculators who will sell it for double the price..

The big mistake of PS5 Pro

Sony’s new console is a collection of questionable decisions, and price isn’t the biggest problem of all.

The presentation was completely disappointing… Sony unveiled PS5 Pro… with PS4 games! PS5 Pro It costs almost 1,000 euros, but they don’t have any new games on the horizon.

Despite the memes which assure that in the comparisons there is no difference, the technical specifications make it clear that In both graphics and performance, PS5 Pro will far surpass PS5as we know those of us who have the console, and also a powerful gaming PC.

But the worst thing has been to sadly see that Sony has gone even further than Microsoft, turning their backs on their legacy and heritage to “kill” the physical formatlaunching a very expensive console, without a disc reader.

The vast majority of users who want a PS5 Pro are PS4 and PS5 owners who have disc-based games. They’ll become a coaster if they sell their console to buy a PS5 Pro, or want to play them on the new machine.

So they have no choice but to pay an extra 120 euros for the reader… If they’re lucky. Because as you can see on the networks, The reader is already sold out in stores that have opened reservations:

Most of these reserves are now in the hands of speculators using bots to catch the products before anyone else. So what is worth 120 euros today, when the console is launched will cost 200 or 250 euros in the hands of these abusers.

Many users may encounter the problem of having a PS5 Pro, but not being able to play their games because there is no stock of the disc reader. They have to wait weeks until they can get it in a store, or go through the hoops of the speculators.

Sony could have avoided this by selling a bundle of console + reader, but at the moment there is none. PS5 Pro has a 2TB hard drive, which indicates that Sony has preferred to add an extra 1TB of hard drive, in exchange for removing the reader. Many users would have preferred a version with 1 TB and a reader included for the same price.but Sony has not wanted to give that option either.

Video game companies are interested in killing the physical formatbecause they save on manufacturing and commission to the stores. And users do not own the gamethey cannot sell it second-hand, or lend it.

These are rights that users lose. In addition, games on disc can be obtained with a 15 or 20% discount in stores on the day of release, compared to digital games.

We’ll see what happens on launch day. PlayStation 5 Proon November 7th, whether or not the disk drive has stock. For my part, I’ve had a PlayStation since PS2, but this is where I get off. Buying a console is no longer fun. And above all, affordable.

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Tags: Sony, Storage, PlayStation, Consoles