The kicker is that owning the disk entitles you to a piece of plastic, and not much more at the moment.
When servers go down, or day one patches are no longer available, the disk becomes no better than a coaster for many modern games.
i mean...you could always buy the add-on disc drive? Assuming that it is still compatible with the Pro, not sure why it wouldn't be. They get to fleece physical media heads for an extra $80, that's a win for Sony.
awesome! just double-check that it's compatible with the new one before dropping the extra $80! Nothing about the Pro is official yet, so we still gotta wait and see.