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

Sony conscionable announced the $699.99 PS5 Pro, a beefed up mentation of the PS5 that includes a larger GPU and precocious ray tracing support. But if you privation to play your carnal games connected the caller console, you’ll person to wage extra: a disc thrust isn’t included, truthful you’ll person to bargain and instal 1 separately for an further $79.99.

“PS5 Pro is disposable arsenic a disc-less console, with the enactment to acquisition the presently disposable Disc Drive for PS5 separately,” Sony’s Hideaki Nishino writes successful a PlayStation Blog post. That means if you are buying some the console and the disc thrust together, you’ll beryllium paying a whopping $779.98.

While precise annoying — it definite seems similar an costly “Pro” console should travel with a disc drive! — this determination from Sony isn’t wholly retired of near field. Sony archetypal released the abstracted PS5 disc drive alongside the “slim” PS5 redesign, giving you the enactment of adding a thrust to an all-digital PS5 slim if you wanted aft the fact. (Sony besides sells a PS5 slim with the disc thrust included.)

The PS5 Pro launches connected November 7th, and preorders commencement connected September 24th.