Ugh Design
I've had a PS5 for a while so I could eventually play Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2024 (the best baseball series, by far) after I imported it.
Here's the annoying thing about the PS5: the design.
Sure, it's all swoopy and Sydney Opera House and whatnot, but you have to install two plastic pieces just to make the damn thing stay level when it's in the horizontal position. They look like an "A" and are utterly ridiculous.
Then there's the disc drive.
It's optional, and there's an incredibly easy way to do an external optical drive: use the USB port. Did Sony do it that way?
Nope.
To install this drive, you have to take the cover off the system (which requires a surprising amount of effort), put the drive in place (the process is not intuitive in the slightest) and ensure the interface slot is connected properly, then put the cover back on.
Does that sound easy? It's not, really.
Finally, though, the drive is installed, including two DIFFERENT sized plastic clips to keep the system balanced. You turn on the PS5--and nothing. It doesn't recognize the drive.
Now, if this was done with a USB connection, no problem. You just unplug the drive from the USB port and try it again.
What Sony did, though, requires you to remove the "A" pieces, remove the system cover (again), and pop out the disc drive. Then you put it back in, reinstall everything, and reboot the console.
In other words, something that should take 30 seconds to check takes 10-15 minutes, at a minimum, because of all the unnecessary labor.
Terrible design. Truly awful. And it doesn't work, which took me an hour to find out instead of 10 minutes.
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