The PS5 Disc Drive Is Now Officially £69.99 at PS Direct in the UK

Dropping the terms of the PS5 disc thrust by £30 does offset astir of this, though. Even if you were primitively readying connected being a digital-exclusive PlayStation gamer before, having a disc thrust attached to your PS5 means you're nary longer restricted to the PlayStation Store's often higher pricing connected integer games.

With that, you tin marque usage of aboriginal deals connected carnal games, similar Assassin's Creed Shadows, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Monster Hunter Wilds, and prevention much wealth successful the agelong word by being capable to store with different retailers. Still, not each different sellers person followed PS Direct's suit yet.

Outside of PS Direct, the lone UK retailers that person updated their PS5 disc thrust merchandise pages with the caller little pricing are Very and Smyths, but some are unluckily retired of banal astatine the clip of writing.

Others similar HMV & Argos are besides retired of stock, but haven't updated their listings from the aged £99.99 tag. If PS Direct runs retired of itself by the clip you work this, the lone different spot wherever you tin bargain a PS5 disc thrust is Amazon UK, but it comes with a overmuch larger terms of £116—which is usually the lawsuit for this peculiar retailer, automatically inflating the outgo owed to its dynamic pricing model.

The PS5 disc thrust was already scarce successful stock, adjacent erstwhile it was inactive being sold astatine £99.99. So, we expect banal connected PS Direct volition spell rapidly since it is presently the lone mode you tin drawback 1 astatine its new, much affordable terms point.

That's besides the aforesaid lawsuit for the integer editions of the PS5 Slim themselves; the lone large mode near that you tin presently bushed the caller pricing is by purchasing a console positive Astro Bot bundle from EE for £329—saving you £160 compared to buying them individually.

Like with the disc drive, this is nary longer disposable with different retailers. So, if you person been reasoning astir yet jumping into the PS5 generation, this is the cheapest mode to bash truthful portion constricted stocks last.

Ben Williams – IGN freelance contributor with implicit 10 years of acquisition covering gaming, tech, film, TV, and anime. Follow him connected Twitter/X @BenLevelTen.

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Apr 15, 2025 3:54 pm