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The PS5's optical drive is paired with its motherboard[1]. If you replace it, even if you take the disk drive from another PS5, it will not be able to read your
by bhelkey 5y ago
The PS5's optical drive is paired with its motherboard[1]. If you replace it, even if you take the disk drive from another PS5, it will not be able to read your PS5 game.
I imagine that 20 years from now you are going to have a hard time finding a working PS5 with its original disk drive.
[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/PlayStation+5+Teardown/138280 https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/PlayStation+5+Teardown/13828...
- BoorishBears 5y agoIt's not just that, a lot of games today are assuming some server somewhere is up regardless of single-player vs multiplayer. Between that and day-1 patches that made games playable, the data on the disk will almost certainly not be enough to play games in 20 years