Everything has to be connected to the internet nowadays, isn’t it? Even the PlayStation 5’s disc drive addition.
Sony recently revealed a smaller-sized PlayStation at a lower cost with different options available to players. The release date was announced to be on the 10th of November next month and will be available for the North American market only. After the release date announcement, some information has been shared about the PlayStation 5 Slim, and unfortunately, some skeptical moves by Sony are taking place, even in some simple installation measures.
PlayStation 5 Slim will have two different variations, one of them is going to be digital only while the other version has an additional disc drive bay for an external drive to be attached. Sony is planning to sell the disc drives separately and according to the leak, it won’t be as easy as putting the drive to the slots, connecting it via cable, and ready to go.
Some eagle-eyed people found out from the soon-to-be-released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III PlayStation 5 Slim Edition has a little note in the back about the disc drive. It reads that the disc drive installation will require an internet connection for it to work properly, which sounded very peculiar to many.
This odd choice was not thought of properly by the looks of it, as a simple, external component should not be connected to the internet. Our guess is that PlayStation has to download a certain software before getting the disc drive to work as intended. But this also raises a lot of questions such as what if the servers are down or what is going to happen if the servers that provide the driver are no longer available.
Sony always brought a slim version of their current console after a few years of them being on the market, but this is the first time they have an external device that will support the slim version. This sort of measure on the disc drive is unheard of and somehow eliminates the purpose of purchasing the disc drive to begin with.
Physical copies of the games being available means that some people tend to use discs instead of relying on an internet connection. Overriding that purpose with an internet connection needed for a disc drive is still questionable at best, and most people agree with the decision.
