Rumor: PS5 With Detachable Disc Drive Shown in Leaked Footage - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 September 2023 / 5,721 Views
It has been rumored since September 2022 that the PlayStation 5 will be getting an overhaul with a new model that will replace the current iterations and will come with a detachable disc drive.
A short video has now leaked online via Twitter user @BwE_Dev of the case of the rumored PS5 that shows what appears a disc drive that can be removed. The video shows the redesigned PS5 is not that much smaller than the current PS5 and has a nearly identical design.
Reports have claimed the new PS5 will be announced at an event later this month with a release in September.
CFI-2016 PS5 Case pic.twitter.com/udFyQbVpz8
— BwE (@BwE_Dev) August 11, 2023
There is also a rumor that a PS5 Pro is in development with a release window of November 2024.
Exact specs for the PS5 Pro are not known, however, sources say it will have 30 WGP and 18000mts memory. Sony is targeting the PS5 Pro to have improved and more consistent frames per second at 4K resolution, as well as an 8K performance mode and accelerated ray tracing.
The PS5 Pro reportedly has a codename of Trinity, which is a reference to The Matrix that Sony has used before. The PS4 Pro had a codename of Neo and the PlayStation VR was codenamed Morpheus.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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There is no slim model, nobody mentioned it but you lot and the media. Tom Henderson never mentioned a slim model, but a new revision with a detachable drive was coming. Sony themselves have not talked about a slim model either, so you guys need to stop spreading lies and misinformation.
as long as it's smaller than the current digital model that's all that matters to me.
If this thing is true, it is ugly as the original and mostly as big.
Before this 'leak' Sony was producing two boards. one with the optical controller chip installed (for disc units) and one without (for digital units). This new approach will streamline things into just one board. they put the optical controller chip on its own board in the optical drive itself and the interface is USB C. This allows them to make a number of digital units as well as include this USB optical drive in disc units while also selling the USB drive by itself for consumers to buy after the fact.
This new approach also allows for them to enable optical support for original digital users via a fw update that will let the front C port work with this drive. Although, if you currently use the VR2 you would not be able to use both unless Sony provides some sort of pass through port on the (now external) drive for original digital users.
One other thing that has many curious is the use of the custom side panels that sony has released (and will continue to). It is said that those disc/digital panels will still be compatible with this new 5. Anyone who buys the new 5 and opts to use a disc later will be able to replace their digital side panel with a disc supported one so the various colors and even Spider-man ones will still be supported.
I've lifted a digital PS5, no way I'm holding it with 1 hand and turning it like that so easily.
You know if the poster didn't want people to be claiming it was free all he had to do was let us see the drive under the case...
Is the disc drive really detachable? It looks built-in.
disc side panel comes off and you can remove the drive and fit the digital panel in its place.
Not sure what they are going for here.. why not just make a Slim model?
I think the point is really just to streamline the production costs of the disc and discless version, it's not really a consumer orientated change.
That is the slim model. It is smaller just not by a whole lot.
Fake in my opinion.
I hope so lol
There was one source in China showing a pic, and another source in China showing a video, at a minimum. Digital Foundry also confirmed that content was coming from multiple, separate sources.
That said, I totally agree with you that it could all be fake. It just makes means a more sophisticated fake if so, which makes it somewhat less likely IMO.
I bet it's not :p
