Rumors of the PlayStation 5 with a removable drive gain even more weight with a new patent from Sony.
It’s almost an open secret now, Sony is preparing several new hardware products. According to the well-informed Tom Henderson (Insider Gaming), the Japanese publisher has in its boxes the famous PlayStation Portable that made headlines this month, a Pro model of its new generation console and a more surprising PS5 that would have a particularity: an external drive . Rumors swelling again while a Sony patent seems to confirm one of these novelties.
The actual PS5 with removable disc drive?
With the PlayStation 5 shortage now a thing of the past, Sony counts its consoles selling in the millions every month. The Japanese company looks to the future and already has several internal projects around its new generation console. Corridor rumors are going well and if we trust information from reputable and reputable sources, it’s gearing up to launch a somewhat special PS5 in September. Its peculiarity, it would have a removable disc drive while maintaining a design close to that of PlayStation Digital. Sony filed a patent this week that seems to validate this model.
The blue stamp actually confirms that they are working on it “ an optical disc player that can be plugged in and connected to electronic devices such as a game console “. Unless the description explicitly mentions the PS5, it seems unlikely that Sony will file a patent for a simple disc drive. As the website points out segment further
According to Tom Henderson’s sources, Sony would tend to replace the existing models with this new version of the PS5 while retaining all the key features. However, we don’t yet know if this detachable disc player would also be compatible with the PlayStation 5 digitals that have been available since the launch of the new generation.