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The PS5 disc drive stock situation is embarrassing
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JORMBO
Darkness no more
Same here. I want to buy one, but there are no drives for sale so it does not make sense for me to pick one up. Every store is fully stocked with consoles though.
Hero of Spielberg
Member
Scalpers reducing risk and not stocking up on PS5 Pros but getting the drives instead lol
MikeM
Member
Imagine that console users actually like the console experience. Not everyone wants to look at Windows or deal with PCs in general after work.
Lord Malachite
Member
I managed to snag myself a stand-alone disc drive. Planning to trade in my launch disc PS5 on Monday for a Pro and have the ultimate PS5.
Darkness_Arises
Member
This again.
I went all digital in the early 2010s. The only physical game I have is Dragon Age: Inquisition for the PS4. The reason I bought a physical disc is because DA:I is banned in India and I couldn't buy it digitally on Steam or PSN. I did not know that the Indian government was actually protecting me from generic thrash, I fully regret the 6$ I spent on that disc.
Salty Pickle
Member
Radical_3d
Member
I take we’re not talking about Dutch toilets.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
It is some console warrior thing. Don’t waste your time on them
Wastelander92
Member
Gives me no hope the PS6 will have a drive or option for one at all.
Giallo Corsa
Member
Man, Gamestop has some nice BF game deals going on (FF16, Jedi redhead fucker sequel game for 20€ each) but...there isn't a single Disc drive in sight, fuck me...
Welcome to the all digital future i suppose.
PS : I still can't play CP2077 Phantom liberty nor Armored core 6 since i have them on disc
Welcome to the all digital future i suppose.
PS : I still can't play CP2077 Phantom liberty nor Armored core 6 since i have them on disc
Toots
Gold Member
I've got Rise of the Ronin, Cyberpunk, Armored Core 6, FF7rebirth all on disc that i can't play because Sony morons cannot manage their supply chain or whatever, and im that close to buy a one way ticket to hermen hulst office in Amsterdam red light district (or wherever this whore of a man works from) to tell him how i feel about his managing of the company.
A japanese CEO would have committed seppuku already, but of course we're stuck with an honorless westerner.
A japanese CEO would have committed seppuku already, but of course we're stuck with an honorless westerner.
Spyxos
Member
I've had this thing sitting around for 2 weeks now. Still no drive. I have reserved it at 3 stores. Ps5 pro mountains are everywhere. You might think that Sony might have produced a few drives as well, but nope. Maybe you could have learned from the broken ps5 launch, but no, that's asking too much.
TheDarkPhantom
Member
Been out of stock since September in Japan. Luckily I have a massive digital library so I can wait though there are new releases like DQ3 remake that I'd prefer to get on disc, itching to play it.
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
I finally managed to order a Pro + disc drive. Won’t be shipped for another week however.
I scored one drive yesterday, at dutch online retailer bol.com. when they where sold out they costed 119e. The few new drives they had in stock where priced 149e. This is a huge retail site that scalped me 30 euros. But still better than the idiots asking 500e on the dutch marketplace. Still a huge miscalculation from Sony.. no drive on their site here in .nl for the last 8 weeks. im starting to think they are doing this to force people going digital..
anyways. just stuck my GT7 disc in. got a whole tower of blurays waiting to be installed again ;p
anyways. just stuck my GT7 disc in. got a whole tower of blurays waiting to be installed again ;p
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Irony.
Lord Malachite
Member
This seems a bit disingenuous. You're comparing apples to oranges. The PS5 launch was not "broken." Sony produced a ton of units for it. However, demand was absurdly high, and it would sell out instantly partly due to demand, partly due to scalpers buying them all up. PS5 launched during peak Covid, so this was not just a "make more units Sony" issue. Chips and parts were in extremely high demand across the tech spectrum, not just for gaming devices. Demand was at an all-time high while supply was at an all-time low. It took a lot of time for this situation to correct itself, but once it did, PS5s became easier and easier to get until you could just walk into any store or log onto any site and buy one as you can today.
The current situation with the add-on PS5 disc drive is a completely different story. There isn't a shortage on the parts. Sony can manufacture them. The issue here is that Sony isn't used to having to. The demand has never been high. Because until the PS5 Pro launched two weeks ago, there was no real demand for the drive. If you wanted your PS5 to support discs, you just bought the disc version. The add-on literally only existed for people who bought the PS5 Slim All Digital edition and then later regretted not getting the disc drive and chose to get that feature. It was an extremely niche product.
The PS5 Pro launching without a SKU featuring a disc drive has made demand for the drive astronomical. Sony seems to have thought demand for physical would be less in 2024 vs. 2020. Moreover, it's in their best interests for gamers to opt for digital over physical as those games can't be resold in much of the world and they make more money off the digital games. So we're now in a situation where Sony likely far underestimated demand for the drive with PS5 Pro on one hand, while on the other they aren't feeling any great urgency to resolve the situation. These factors combined will make the situation continue for some time.
PS5 disc drives are readily available on eBay. I see them go for as little as $120 and as much as $200+. Unless you want to be very patient for the shortage to pass or keep trying your luck at stores and on websites hoping to catch a restock, you can get one without much trouble, but you will pay scalper prices. It may very well be worth measuring how much you're losing out. Stores do a ton of Black Friday deals on physical games. If you can snap up some titles you've been long wanting for a great price, it may be worth getting gouged on the disc drive. Otherwise, keep waiting or keep trying your luck. Or screw it and be digital only.
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PeteBull
Member
Its doing well in the US, for now, everywhere else its priced terribly and discdrives are nowhere to be found except from scalpers, hell here in eu/poland smaller stoles scalping the discdrives themselfs and selling online for over 250$ a piece, thats how ez it is for scalpers to fuck us up when they need to scalp not 700usd/800euro console but 80$ discdrive.
To give u comparision if i wanna buy ps5pr0 now, with discdrive from scalper(coz no1 else is selling, all major stores got it sold out with no info on avaiability) i gotta spend close to 1200usd, suddenly ps5pr0 doesnt sound like good deal anymore.
And lets not mention salaries here are roughly 4-5x lower vs the US, but that affects all electronics, including my upcoming new pc rig(still on the verge when to buy it but with ps5pr0 being big bust coz of disc drive scalpers its pushing me towards spending that cash and more on pc instead, simply
here proof
1189pln so 285usd
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Bojji
Member
No irony at all, digital on pc is much better than on consoles.
Physical is the biggest advantage consoles have at the moment, and looking at what Ms and Sony are doing it will be a moment...
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
Oh please tell me how is that?
Specially considering the majority of PS5 game sales are digital lmao.
PeteBull
Member
There is only 1 digital store for playstation, aka 0 competition, on pc u got many that compete with eachother which results in lower prices, simple as that.
Bojji
Member
Yep.
Plus actual ownership of digital games is a thing on PC, you can keep offline installers from GoG forever.
Steam on the other hand compared to PS Store has actual refund options, you can return games you don't like AFTER playing them (you have to know you don't like the game before downloading it on PS, lol).
Sony has monopoly and they are greedy motherfuckers in the last few years.
Physical is no. 1 but no. 2 is PC DD, consoles are far below on the list...
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
Just got notified by a Portuguese retailer that they have this available for delivery in 12 days tops. Europe is getting units as we speak or during the next 2 weeks.
Just a heads up. If Portugal wirh 10M people is getting them, must mean every country in europe is as well lmao
edit: Sony really made me spend 800€ on a console and another 120€ on a disc drive like this...
Just a heads up. If Portugal wirh 10M people is getting them, must mean every country in europe is as well lmao
edit: Sony really made me spend 800€ on a console and another 120€ on a disc drive like this...
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BlackTron
Member
The quest for the ULTIMATE Playstation is finally over. Black plates, disc drive, and Pro power.
(Seriously, it feels a little like we got Samus'd are on this quest to get back all the stuff we lost at the start of the sequel)
Euler007
Member
I buy all my PC games physical! Tie Fighter, Eye of the Beholder, and one of the last ones I could, World of Warcraft!
This again.
FrankWza
Gold Member
Good stuff. Take advantage of those physical sales. How does it usually work? Port cities and countries get them quicker?
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Salty Pickle
Member
My PRO is sitting idle so I have to play on PS5 Peasant because of this fuckup.
Topher
Identifies as young
Its doing well in the US, for now, everywhere else its priced terribly and discdrives are nowhere to be found except from scalpers, hell here in eu/poland smaller stoles scalping the discdrives themselfs and selling online for over 250$ a piece, thats how ez it is for scalpers to fuck us up when they need to scalp not 700usd/800euro console but 80$ discdrive.
To give u comparision if i wanna buy ps5pr0 now, with discdrive from scalper(coz no1 else is selling, all major stores got it sold out with no info on avaiability) i gotta spend close to 1200usd, suddenly ps5pr0 doesnt sound like good deal anymore.
And lets not mention salaries here are roughly 4-5x lower vs the US, but that affects all electronics, including my upcoming new pc rig(still on the verge when to buy it but with ps5pr0 being big bust coz of disc drive scalpers its pushing me towards spending that cash and more on pc instead, simply
here proof
1189pln so 285usd
That's fair. Pricing/demand is going to vary from one region to another. I get that.
I would say "actual ownership" would mean you can resell the license, but beyond that, I agree 100%. This is why I only use physical on console unless with a subscription.
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Bojji
Member
Yeah, discs are unbeatable. You can't do shit with digital games, other than selling account?
diffusionx
Gold Member
lol I remember that. I don't think the remote was easy to find either. Yea Sony needs to figure this out.
In the USA you could easily have bought one up until a few days before the Pro came out.
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Topher
Identifies as young
Not even that per the terms of service. Digital ownership needs to be rectified at the legislative level, imo. But governments giving a damn is a tough mountain to climb, I'm afraid.
Fake
Member
I don't even know if this is possible, there is a region limitation right?
Bojji
Member
I was mostly talking about steam/gog account etc. it's probably illegal in many places...
For PS accounts? I have no idea.
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TheRedRiders
Member
There's been no stock update in weeks or am I wrong?
Eimran
Member
No it's Sony dissapointing us once again.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
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ValiantInstance
Member
Where is it selling out perchance? I've got email alerts at like 3 retailers and the stock checker page says there's been nothing this week.
TheRedRiders
Member
I caved in an brought it for £150 from Ebay - HFW and Spiderman 2 discs were just waiting to be played.
Forgive me!!
Bojji
Member
Nothing to say?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Why are you even in here other than to shit it up with you PCMR tardation and damage control?
FrankWza
Gold Member
Bojji
Member
Damage control for what? That Sony had no problem making ~40 milion drives for PS5 and slim and now they can't manufacture them anymore?
All I see are fools defending every anti consumer move from Sony. Almost like apple fanboys...
FrankWza
Gold Member
Wait until Apple bankrolls Sony and they buy Sega and Konami.... We're all getting tattoos
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Bro, every brand fantard does this on here and everywhere for their favorite toys. Don't be an obtuse and intellectually dishonest clown.
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Bojji
Member
Bro, every fucking brand fantard does this on here and everywhere for their favorite toys. Don't be an obtuse and intellectually dishonest retard.
So me saying things that are true = bad.
At the same time fanboys licking Sony butt are good?