It’s been just over a month since Sony finally announced the long-awaited PS5 Slimand Restore It doesn’t have a last name, which attests to its smaller size compared to the original model, but it is slightly smaller. As Sony announced at the time, these new models will go on sale in November in the United States, and will be rolled out to other markets as stocks of the original models still available in those markets are released.

The announcement that got a lot of attention was the departure selling an external optical drive that we can use with the PS5 Slim Digital Edition. It is true that buying the console and the optical drive separately is more expensive than buying the PS5, which already includes it as standard (569.98 euros versus 549.99 euros, 19.99 euros more). It’s not a big difference, but it’s enough that purchasing it separately only makes sense in certain cases.

He is undoubtedly one of them the ability to share an optical drive between several people-consoles. Whether my friend Paco and I buy it half and share, or I buy a PS5 Slim DE for the living room and another for the bedroom, it might make sense in certain circumstances. However, doubts began to appear in this regard with the arrival of the first units to buyers and the discovery that the reader must be activated when using the console for the first time. Of course, this created a lot of doubt, suspicion and some fear.

Of course, one doubt was whether the same unit could be used on two or more consoles, and we have good news on that front, as tests by TronicsFix show that The same optical drive can be registered and used on multiple PS5 Slim Digital Editions without any problems. We only need to register the unit to each of them the first time it is connected, so we can use it without restrictions. And more importantly, its registration in the console does not exclude registration in the previous one.

The only condition is of course that the PS5 Slim DE is connected to the Internet at the time the unit is registered, because in order to complete this process, a connection must be established with the Sony servers, which will verify the operation. Of course, this reminds us of the concern we already mentioned when showing the first images, which is that if one day Sony decides that the life cycle of the reader is over, it can disable the registration function. In principle, this wouldn’t be a problem for users who already have it registered to their console, but the problem is that if the console is factory reset, the unit needs to be registered again.

I want to think that Sony will act responsibly at this point, ensuring the stability of authentication services the PlayStation 5 Slim DE optical drives for quite a few years now, otherwise we could find ourselves facing a glaring example of planned obsolescence. But again, I believe that Sony will do the right thing in this regard.