The PlayStation 5 Pro shortage hasn't let up, but the people who already own one have settled on which accessories are worth buying once stock returns. Two keep coming up in owner discussions reported by BGR: Sony's $79 disc drive and its DualSense Charging Station.
The disc drive matters more than it might have a year ago. Sony has said it plans to stop producing physical PS5 games entirely by 2028, and that announcement has reportedly pushed some gamers back toward buying discs now, partly to protect the libraries they already own and partly as a statement against an all-digital future. The PS5 Pro ships without a built-in drive, same as the base all-digital PS5, so the $79 add-on is the only way to play discs on either console.
The charging dock is the less dramatic recommendation but the more universal one. It holds two DualSense controllers at once, which helps anyone juggling multiple players, and it charges through the contacts on the bottom of the controller rather than the USB-C port. BGR quoted one Reddit user who called it "so much neater than using a cable all the time," and the broader appeal seems to be less about convenience than longevity. USB-C ports wear out with repeated plugging and unplugging. A dock avoids that entirely, and it means the console doesn't need to stay powered on just to top off a controller.
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