Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Wu Yanzu in South China for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com, Oct. 11, Tom Henderson, a reliable whistleblower in the gaming industry, previously reported that Sony is developing a new PlayStation 5 game console with a removable optical drive.

According to the latest news from foreign media Insider Gaming sources, the new PS5 game console with removable optical drive is expected to start production in April 2023 and go on sale in September 2023.

It is said that Sony plans to sell 18 million PS5 consoles in fiscal year 2022 and 30.5 million in fiscal year 2023, of which 12 million are older PS5. Sony will stop production of the old PS5 completely on Christmas Day 2023.

CTOnews.com learned that it had been revealed that the biggest change to the new PlayStation 5 would be a removable optical drive that would connect to the PlayStation 5 using an additional USB-C interface on the back of the game console.

It is understood that the new PlayStation 5 game console will be sold separately or bundled with a removable optical drive. The optical drive can also be purchased separately, so if the optical drive is broken, there is no need to buy a new game console. As for the price, the source said that the optical drive was bought separately for $100 (about 714 yuan), which is the price difference between the old optical drive version and the digital version.

"the 2023 Sony PS5 game console is exposed: external optical drive, which can be purchased separately."

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