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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by bhelkey on Monday December 27, 2021 @02:11PM (#29705706)
The PS5's optical drive is paired with its motherboard[1]. If you replace it, even if you take the disk drive from another PS5, it will not be able to read your PS5 game.

I imagine that 20 years from now you are going to have a hard time finding a working PS5 with its original disk drive.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/PlayStation+5+Teardown/13828...

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by BoorishBears on Monday December 27, 2021 @03:30PM (#29706448)
It's not just that, a lot of games today are assuming some server somewhere is up regardless of single-player vs multiplayer.

Between that and day-1 patches that made games playable, the data on the disk will almost certainly not be enough to play games in 20 years

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