Despite the ongoing controversy surrounding the brand new PS5 Slim and its removable disc drive, stories declare that customers can really swap the extra piece of {hardware} on and off their console pretty simply. So a lot in order that eradicating the disc drive and shifting it to a different PS5 Slim takes a couple of minutes… If you could have web entry, after all.
At first, customers thought that when the removable disc drive was assigned to your PS5 it could be locked to that console and serial quantity. Gamers had been frightened that this on-line registration would forestall them from lending a disc drive to a buddy or maybe promoting it in the event that they not used it. However, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
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In a YouTube video from Mystic, he reveals that customers can really swap the disc drive round to different consoles as soon as it has been registered. Keep in thoughts that the brand new PS5 Slim will nonetheless require web for its first-time use with the {hardware}. After the drive has been registered, you’re free to make use of it with out the web.
Should you swap the disc drive onto one other PS5 Slim, there shouldn’t be any drawback both. The system will ask to register the disc drive to the brand new console and as soon as achieved, it should operate usually. You don’t even must deregister it.
It appears that whereas this complete disc drive registration is a ache at first, it hasn’t been applied to lock the {hardware} to your console. It doesn’t tie the disc drive to your PS5 Slim or forestall you from accessing the drive on one other console. The on-line registration is solely there for DMCA functions in order that customers don’t discover methods to bypass the disc licenses on these Blu-ray drives.
Of course, customers are nonetheless frightened that someday later down the road Sony may flip off these disc drive verification servers. As a consequence, you gained’t be capable of register the unit. However, I’m certain the corporate will situation a firmware replace to bypass this one-time on-line handshake earlier than that occurs.
