• Funderpants
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    20 days ago

    No disk drive is no purchase from me. I even saved up the money to buy one, but I won’t without a disk drive.

    • @GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
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      1420 days ago

      Yeah I think we’ve learned by now that if you can’t touch it, you don’t own it. I’m tired of “leasing” software.

      • @Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com
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        819 days ago

        The kicker is that owning the disk entitles you to a piece of plastic, and not much more at the moment. When servers go down, or day one patches are no longer available, the disk becomes no better than a coaster for many modern games.

        • @GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
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          117 days ago

          Yeah that’s a fair point. But you should still be able to play offline. I’m not much of an online gamer anyways.

    • coyotino [he/him]OP
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      1220 days ago

      i mean…you could always buy the add-on disc drive? Assuming that it is still compatible with the Pro, not sure why it wouldn’t be. They get to fleece physical media heads for an extra $80, that’s a win for Sony.

      • Funderpants
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        20 days ago

        I did not know that was a thing and I absolutely would buy one. Thank you.

        • coyotino [he/him]OP
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          1120 days ago

          awesome! just double-check that it’s compatible with the new one before dropping the extra $80! Nothing about the Pro is official yet, so we still gotta wait and see.

      • sunzu2
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        620 days ago

        Ehhh if most people don’t care about the disk, then i guess good they don’t need to pay for it. Reduce waste

        But i bougtht the console for the disk feature and use it as media center.

      • @BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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        319 days ago

        I bet that hardly anyone buys the add on drive and they use that as a reason to completely drop physical media support in the PS6.

    • coyotino [he/him]OP
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      1020 days ago

      the hardware design team is so far up their own asses with the PS5 design. Here’s two articles where you can read how high they are on their own supply: One, Two