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Let's be honest, the PS5 is not a product that needs this kind of hype. The number of people who are going to buy one anyway greatly outnumber production suppl
by mywittyname 5y ago
Let's be honest, the PS5 is not a product that needs this kind of hype. The number of people who are going to buy one anyway greatly outnumber production supplies for the first few years anyway. People were going to camp out around the block to get one, regardless of spending $600, $1000, or probably even $2500. The "on the fence" long-tail customers come several years later will be more swayed by desirably content than some crazy even that happened many moons ago.
Going for recurring news segments is merely corporate vanity in this case. What your talking about is better suited to luxury clothing brands, or things that are fashionable for a minute, then everyone moves on to the next big thing.
Plus, the scalpers are really starting to piss people off. It was acceptable in the first month or so because people thought it would die down soon. But we are a year out from launch, and it's still happening. People are starting to look at alternatives to gaming consoles because, while they'd happily pay $1000+ for a console, they aren't going to buy from a scalper on principal.
- rdtwo 5y agoThe only alternative is cloud gaming because graphics cards are way harder to get than consoles
- mywittyname 5y agoI was just at the Microcenter this weekend and they had a few RTX 30x0s on the shelves and several of AMD RX6ks. Plus, tons (a dozne or so)of older models. Granted, you had to be willing to pay for them, because they only stock the Zotac brand RTX cards. They also had plenty of gaming laptops. In fact, the gaming laptops were basically all they had in stock. That demonstrates that market adjustments work to keep inventory in stock. Some people are willing to wait all morning in line to snag a $700 RTX 3070, but balk at the idea of paying $1100 for a Zotac RTX 3070. Which allows Joe Consumer to walk right into a store and get what they want.
- rdtwo 5y agoWhy not just pay a scalper off stock or eBay at that point? Do you really care who pockets the difference?
- thebean11 5y agoI completely disagree, the PS3 launch price did serious long term damage to its prospects against the 360. Later price drops helped, but by that time the 360 was too far ahead in the land grab.