I think the concern here is about what happens once they stop making official disk drives and the existing ones break. Technologically, I could connect a generic bluray drive to a PS5, but this hardware DRM prevents that.
I’m sure there will be workarounds, they’re just going to be annoying.
That far into the future, physical PS5s will either be the OG version with disc, or one that is already paired.
You only need validation on initial setup.
I think the concern here is about what happens once they stop making official disk drives and the existing ones break. Technologically, I could connect a generic bluray drive to a PS5, but this hardware DRM prevents that.
I’m sure there will be workarounds, they’re just going to be annoying.
That far in the future we’ll just use emulation. See Sega Genesis/Sega CD or the NEC TurboGrafx/CD.