Sony announces PlayStation 5 Digital Edition with no disc drive

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Sony had one big surprise it snuck into the final minutes of its PlayStation 5 reveal event: a digital-only version of the upcoming next-gen console.

Simply called the PS5 Digital Edition, this version of the hardware has no optical disc drive, as you can see in the image Sony provided on its live stream. There is a noticeable thinness and lack of visible disc slot to the digital version where the disc drive is located on the standard model.

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The standard PS5 is noticeably thicker around where the disc drive is located.

There also appears to be one less button on the front of the digital version, which we surmise is because the standard one has a power button and a eject disc button. The digital…

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