Is physical ownership actually any better for game preservation?

[Vinther1991]

Spike0503 said:

Take this with a grain of salt but I recently read that some new PS5 models being sold recently come with disc drives that already work without authentication. I don't know if it's every PS5 slim or how can you tell, but I read that from someone in a physical media discussion on reddit. They bought a new PS5 slim and they didn't have to authenticate.

I can confirm this, I bought a brand new PS5 slim this summer, and was able to use it to play physical games just fine without connecting it to the internet first for authentication. I also don’t know if that is the case for all PS5 slims.