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. Suggested ReadingDestiny's Ten-Year Anniversary Event Is BittersweetWorld Of Warcraft: The War Within Adds A Whole New Talent TreeThe Best Game And Movie Jokes About Last Night’s Presidential DebateThis Cool New Retro Console Is A Great Gift For Atari Fans
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CCShare SubtitlesOffEnglishShare this VideoFacebookTwitterEmailRedditLinkThis Cool New Retro Console Is A Great Gift For Atari FansOn 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. AdvertisementRelated ContentPS5 Pro Pre-Orders: When They Start And How to Get OneThe PS5 Pro Can't Convince Me To Care About Tiny Graphical UpgradesRelated ContentPS5 Pro Pre-Orders: When They Start And How to Get OneThe PS5 Pro Can't Convince Me To Care About Tiny Graphical UpgradesAdvertisementIn 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. AdvertisementNot 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!