PS5/PS5 Professional Disc Drive Scarcity Frustrates Gamers

The continuing PS5/PS5 Professional disc drive scarcity has left a lot of gamers annoyed as they battle 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 until gamers decide to buy a digital console. PS5 Professional gamers are, sadly, having a tough time discovering a disc drive.

Scalpers dropped the dear PS5 Professional and picked up disc drives as an alternative

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 commonly 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 virtually immediately.

The scenario isn’t any higher relating to third-party retailers — each bodily and digital. Gamers who did handle to safe a drive declare that they’d been usually visiting their native shops, like Finest Purchase and Goal, for random inventory drops. Not everybody has the flexibility to tug this off, nevertheless.

Scalpers have been understandably fast to catch on. When the PS5 Professional was totally revealed with particulars like its value and lack of packaged disc drive, the add-on instantly began disappearing and turning up on websites like eBay as an alternative. As an alternative 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 value.

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.