The digital PS5 was a genius move. Seemingly now for 3 out of 4 gamers, the consoles are $499 vs $399 just like the start of last gen.i'm going to come out agaisnt your prediction.
I'm sticking with my prediction that next gen systems after PS5 will be only digital. An official usb disc drive will be sold for backwards compatibility and for the few regions that still offer physical games.
an external disc drive is very "unconsole" like. its needlessly complicated for the user and i don't see it being all that cost saving for sony either. imo it is probably cheaper to tack on a disc drive to the console like ps5 did then to sell the it as a stand alone device.
either next gen is fully discless or it is supported the same as this gen except instead of the disc sku seeing higher demand the discless sku sees higher demand. i can definetly see the discless sku being marketed as the lead platform though.
also what is your evidence that ps5/XS are viewed as $400 and $500?
