The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive

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If you want to play your physical games, you’ll have to buy Sony’s $79.99 disc drive.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

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An image showing the PS5 Pro’s separate disc drive.

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Sony just announced the $699.99 PS5 Pro, a beefed-up version of the PS5 that includes a larger GPU and advanced ray tracing support. But if you want to play your physical games on the new console, you’ll have to pay extra: a disc drive isn’t included, so you’ll have to buy and install one separately for an additional $79.99.

“PS5 Pro is available as a disc-less console, with the option to purchase the currently available Disc Drive for PS5 separately,” Sony’s Hideaki Nishino writes in a PlayStation Blog post. That means if you are buying both the console and the disc drive together, you’ll be paying a whopping $779.98.

While very annoying — it sure seems like an expensive “Pro” console should come with a disc drive! — this move from Sony isn’t entirely out of left field. Sony first released the separate PS5 disc drive alongside the “slim” PS5 redesign, giving you the option of adding a drive to an all-digital PS5 slim if you wanted after the fact. (Sony also sells a PS5 slim with the disc drive included.)

The PS5 Pro launches on November 7th, and preorders start on September 24th.

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