But the PS5 Pro will launch at its $699 price point without a disc drive in the box, or as a bundle. When the PS5 Slim was launched in late 2023, Sony offered the revised $449 console on its own, or as a $499 bundle with an optional bolt-on disc drive.

Sony is upfront about its PS5 console sales, and it was already known that it sold nearly 62 million units to date, a figure that was revealed with its last earnings report. Microsoft is not as forthcoming, and so that 28.3 million figure of combined Xbox Series X and S sales in the graph above is plucked from Aldora Intelligence.

Sony has sold boatloads of PS5 consoles over the few years it's been out, and has now reportedly reached a total of 61.7 million units shipped as of June