The continued PS5/PS5 Professional disc drive scarcity has left a lot of gamers pissed off as they wrestle to safe the add-on. The removable standalone drive was launched with the PS5 Slim, however not like the PS5 Professional, the Slim comes bundled with a drive except gamers decide to buy a digital console. PS5 Professional gamers are, sadly, having a tough time discovering a disc drive.
Scalpers dropped the expensive PS5 Professional and picked up disc drives as a substitute
The PS5 disc drive scarcity appears to be an issue of Sony‘s personal making. The corporate’s official on-line storefront, PS Direct, is usually out of inventory. On the time of this writing, each the U.S. and U.Okay. PS Direct shops are out of disc drives. When the shop is restocked, the drives disappear nearly immediately.
The state of affairs isn’t any higher in terms of third-party retailers — each bodily and digital. Gamers who did handle to safe a drive declare that they’d been recurrently visiting their native shops, like Greatest Purchase and Goal, for random inventory drops. Not everybody has the flexibility to drag this off, nevertheless.
Scalpers had been understandably fast to catch on. When the PS5 Professional was totally revealed with particulars like its worth and lack of packaged disc drive, the add-on instantly began disappearing and turning up on websites like eBay as a substitute. As a substitute of hoarding the Professional consoles, scalpers have been stacking the disc drives.
I simply checked eBay and located pages upon pages of listings for the elusive drive, going for twice the retail worth.
It’s unclear why Sony continues to fabricate the disc drives in extremely restricted portions, and the corporate has made no assertion on the matter both — a bit weird contemplating how apologetic Sony was over the PS5 scarcity.
