PS5: 8 CONFIRMED Features We Already Know

5. It WILL Have A Disc Drive

There have been depressing rumours in recent months that, due to the uptick in digital sales in recent years, next-gen consoles may end up ditching disc drives entirely in favour of a download-only content delivery system.

Thankfully industry analyst Michael Pachter has pretty much stamped those worries out by insisting that both consoles will indeed have disc drives. He claims that it ultimately comes down to Sony and Microsoft maintaining a healthy relationship with brick-and-mortar stores, which they rely on to sell consoles.

If they suddenly cut storefronts out of the games media business, there's not much incentive for them to bother selling the consoles either, so doing away with disc drives entirely seems like a mightily risky move. Plus, in countries with strict data caps like Australia, digital-only would be absolutely devastating.

It's certainly possible that Sony could release a cheaper PS5 model without a disc drive, but the base console will 100% have one.