• Funderpants
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    4 months ago

    No disk drive is no purchase from me. I even saved up the money to buy one, but I won’t without a disk drive.

    • @[email protected]
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      144 months ago

      Yeah I think we’ve learned by now that if you can’t touch it, you don’t own it. I’m tired of “leasing” software.

      • @Thistlewick
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        74 months ago

        The kicker is that owning the disk entitles you to a piece of plastic, and not much more at the moment. When servers go down, or day one patches are no longer available, the disk becomes no better than a coaster for many modern games.

        • @[email protected]
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          14 months ago

          Yeah that’s a fair point. But you should still be able to play offline. I’m not much of an online gamer anyways.

    • coyotino [he/him]OP
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      114 months ago

      i mean…you could always buy the add-on disc drive? Assuming that it is still compatible with the Pro, not sure why it wouldn’t be. They get to fleece physical media heads for an extra $80, that’s a win for Sony.

      • Funderpants
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        4 months ago

        I did not know that was a thing and I absolutely would buy one. Thank you.

        • coyotino [he/him]OP
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          104 months ago

          awesome! just double-check that it’s compatible with the new one before dropping the extra $80! Nothing about the Pro is official yet, so we still gotta wait and see.

      • sunzu2
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        54 months ago

        Ehhh if most people don’t care about the disk, then i guess good they don’t need to pay for it. Reduce waste

        But i bougtht the console for the disk feature and use it as media center.