At Don Quijote’s Black Friday sale, a bundle of the PS5 console and disc drive priced at ¥55,000 before tax has become a hot topic on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board. Since the PS5 Slim redesign, the disc drive has been separated from the console and sold on its own, and this deal bundles it back in. Some in the thread welcomed it as “cheap,” while others pointed out that if the next-gen console drops disc support, the drive you buy now will eventually become useless — opinions were split.
That's ¥60,500, c'mon \n Well, it's still cheap though
6AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:07
Are there even still Don Quijote stores stocking PS5s?
7AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:07
Can they only pull off this price because nobody's buying it? \n Impressive, PS5!
8AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:07
Isn't that the same price as this year's New Year's lucky bag?
9AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:09
I wonder how many Don Quijote customers actually know the disc drive is getting discontinued
11AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:09
There was a time the Pro plus drive cost ¥100,000
12AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:09
They had the same lucky bag at the Obon sale too (Obon = mid-August holiday period)
13AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:10
Download rate's like 95%, right? Who even needs a disc drive 🙄
67AnonymousNov 8, 2026 20:20
Re: #13 \n PS4 users who are also physical-media diehards: "No disc, no buy"
16AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:13
Letting it sit in inventory is nothing but a loss anyway
17AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:14
If they end up losing to the Switch after this, Sony's fate was sealed from the start…
20AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:18
The ¥55,000-tax-included deal they'll probably run at New Year's is pricier than this two-item bundle, but they probably won't run it again next year \n so maybe now's the time to buy…
21AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:20
Gotta clear out that disc drive stock somehow
23AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:23
Disc drives are gonna be junk in a little over a year, so retailers must be having a rough time offloading the stock
25AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:25
What are you even gonna do with it once you buy it?
26AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:27
Re: #25 \n Load it up with dirt-cheap used games, watch some Blu-rays and DVDs…
47AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:40
Re: #25 \n Play Yakuza in a room that reeks of cigarette smoke 👊
27AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:27
Got it, I'll take a Switch 2 instead then
29AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:28
So what games are you even gonna play on it?
30AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:29
Re: #29 \n GTA6 \n sorry about that 😊
48AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:42
Re: #30 \n Are people who call themselves gamers really gonna happily pick the censored version?
88AnonymousNov 8, 2026 22:42
Re: #30 \n It's already confirmed you won't get to play the uncensored original, and yet you're still acting smug about it
33AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:31
With GTA6, it wouldn't be surprising if someone had a PC port ready before it even officially releases
35AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:32
Is this killing the Wolverine bundle deal? lol (Marvel's Wolverine is usually sold packaged with the PS5)
39AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:34
Guys who never bothered buying a PS5 until now \n making their PS5 debut right when GTA6 drops? \n \n yeah right
40AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:34
They already gave the drive away for free at New Year's, so this doesn't feel like that much of a deal
43AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:36
They'll probably run drive clearance sales again for year-end/New Year's and Black Friday \n since it's piracy demand (people running cracked copies) that's moving just the console
49AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:42
The New Year's lucky bags were so overstocked you could still grab one showing up at noon on the day \n should've bought one just as a souvenir
51AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:45
If it's first-come, first-served for just 3 people, it's probably already gone
52AnonymousNov 8, 2026 19:45
If you think of it as clearance of stock that's about to become useless, it doesn't really feel cheap
64AnonymousNov 8, 2026 20:11
They had a sale just last month too \n
71AnonymousNov 8, 2026 20:31
Re: #64 \n For an item that normally can only get a ¥20 discount, slashing ¥3,000 off reeks of "adult circumstances" (i.e. behind-the-scenes business reasons) — there's probably all sorts of reasons behind it…
78AnonymousNov 8, 2026 21:37
Re: #64 \n Honestly this is dirt cheap \n If it still won't sell even at this price, that's genuinely bad
83AnonymousNov 8, 2026 21:57
Re: #64 \n Hmm \n that's from before the tax-exemption system got revised
66AnonymousNov 8, 2026 20:18
Like they did with the PS4 — it should come with two download games bundled for ¥19,800
91AnonymousNov 8, 2026 22:47
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The PS5’s disc drive was never built into the console — since the Slim redesign, it has been sold separately as a detachable add-on. The “95% download rate” mentioned in the thread isn’t an official Sony figure but a number from an anonymous post, so it shouldn’t be treated as a real statistic. The split in opinion centered on whether this counts as a good deal: some welcomed it as a straightforward price cut, while others saw it as inventory clearance ahead of the next-gen console likely dropping disc support. Some comments also brought up the New Year’s lucky bag sale and a glut of chip stock — the fact that PS5 supply itself has run somewhat oversupplied has been reported before based on past remarks from management, but the thread’s speculation that “they’re hoarding chips meant for the Xbox” has no supporting evidence and isn’t adopted in this article. Comments weighing a console purchase around the timing of GTA6’s release also offer useful context for reading into the sale’s background.
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