Yesterday, Sony officially unveiled the PlayStation 5 Pro after months of rumors and leaks. The souped-up console will cost $700, let you play many games at higher frame rates, and doesn’t come with a disc drive. That last part has seemingly led to a lot of people buying up PS5 disc drives, leading in turn to the console accessory selling out on many sites.
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On September 10, Sony announced the PS5 Pro and the reaction was a lot of people going, “Holy shit, $700?” mixed with people going “Wait, it doesn’t come with a disc drive?” Nope! Like the Xbox Series S and PS5 Digital Edition, the PS5 Pro doesn’t include a disc drive. But Sony does offer an optional optical drive that you can buy for about $80 and slap onto your PS5. And this drive will work on the PS5 Pro.
In the 24 hours since the PS5 Pro’s official reveal, it has become harder to buy a PS5 Blu-ray drive. Currently Amazon, Best Buy, and Target are sold out. Over at Walmart, according to the store’s tracker, 100+ people have bought a PS5 drive in the last day or so. Another 200+ people have it in their cart currently. Meanwhile, on Amazon, the PS5 disc drive is the fifth best-selling video game-related item and is currently outselling physical copies of Astro Bot.
Not all stores have sold out yet. As of this writing, it seems GameStop still has a few as I was able to add one to my cart and start the purchase process. The official PlayStation store seems to still have them in stock, too. That hasn’t stopped a few people from already trying to flip the disc drive on eBay for more than its retail price.
Pre-orders for the PS5 Pro are planned to go live on September 26. Between now and then I imagine it will only get harder to secure a PS5 disc drive as people planning on getting a PS5 Pro try to buy one now before resellers snatch them up and try to sell them for 5x their retail price. Good luck out there, folks!
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