The PS5 Slim‘s removable disc drive appears to work on a number of consoles so long as gamers register it to the console they intend to apply it to. A YouTuber who examined this confirmed {that a} single disc drive will be registered to a number of PS5s on the identical time.
How the PS5 Slim disc drive pairing works
Sony by no means formally defined how the PS5 Slim’s removable drive would work, so eyebrows have been raised when it was found by way of a leaked retail unit’s field that the drive must be paired on-line prior to make use of. Many assumed that this was dangerous information for recreation preservation, whereas some expressed issues that Sony would restrict the use and repairability of drives. Nonetheless, this isn’t the case.
YouTuber TronicsFix received their palms on a number of PS5 Slim items and located that the handshake is a one-off requirement and except gamers manufacturing unit reset their consoles and unregister their drives manually, they’ll stay registered to a console for good. What’s extra is that gamers can pop the drive into a brand new console and can have the ability to register it as Sony permits a number of simultaneous registrations.
Sony has additionally made it simple to swap the disc drives forwards and backwards. Swapping the drives between consoles is not going to immediate gamers to re-register in the event that they’ve already paired it as soon as. All of that is demonstrated within the video beneath.