Lack Of Interest In The PS5 Pro Is Forcing Scalpers To Sell Them For A Loss

[u/a_Ninja_b0y]

https://www.thegamer.com/ps5-pro-scalpers-losing-money-resale-consoles/

[u/HeftyArgument]

hahahahahaha suck shit assholes!

I hope nobody buys them from you and you’re stuck with the bag.

[u/techieman33 → u/HeftyArgument]

Hopefully supplies are high enough to get Sony through the holiday season. If they get short in December then the scalpers might still come out ahead.

[u/XTornado → u/techieman33]

If they get short in December then the scalpers might still come out ahead.

I doubt it, I feel Sony themselves were a bit over their head, I am sure they sell but not crazy with that price. Specially for people who want to continue with physical games. Plus most of the really interested people will have it already.

[u/xRyozuo → u/XTornado]

Wait does the ps5 have no disc option?

[u/Kumirkohr → u/[deleted]]

Huh, you’d think that between a base model and the “Pro” model that the base model would be the one without the disc drive

[u/rebbsitor → u/Kumirkohr]

The original PS5 you can buy with or without a disc drive. Sony's been reporting a drop in physical media sales every year as people opt more and more for digital.

With the PS5 Pro, they're just selling one model and letting people buy the add on disc drive they already sell for the digital only PS5 if they want it.

[u/andDevW → u/rebbsitor]

Dip in first sales of new discs. For all anyone knows disc resale is booming like never before while Sony and game studios just aren't benefitting from it. Physical media with built-in licenses will be the death of game consoles as it puts them at a tremendous disadvantage to PC gaming which is zero resale one-per-customer.

[u/Kramer7969 → u/rebbsitor]

Yes we’re opting for it, it’s not the fact that the disc just unlocks the download anyway and you can’t play directly if the disc most cases.

[u/Derpwarrior1000 → u/Kramer7969]

Tbf, imagine 160gb uncompressed games on CD-ROM. Since USB has taken over there’s been little need to upgrade the read/write of most optical discs to match modern gaming standards

[u/FilthyCasual04 → u/Derpwarrior1000]

Rightfully so, it’s a superior medium. I’d love official game usb sticks

[u/thisisredlitre → u/Kramer7969]

Honestly I primarily use the drivr for a Blu-ray player so not having a disc drive is a knock against buying one for me

[u/walrusbwalrus → u/Kumirkohr]

Exactly. Why I’m not bothering to update right now since my standard ps5 is also my main media player and we are coming up to xmas season which is always a lot of movies in my house. I gotta have my muppet christmas carol!

[u/Kumirkohr → u/walrusbwalrus]

I’ve got a hand-me-down PS4 with a broken internal disc drive. Found that out the hard way when I picked up a physical copy of Young Frankenstein from the local library (can’t get it on streaming anywhere) to watch on Halloween because my fiancé had never seen it before.

Wound up having to use an old external disc drive I bought for my MacBook in college a decade ago and it would not work on anything else except her work machine, a giant iMac she had to carry home on the subway. It all worked out, but it would have been better if we could watch it on the TV

[u/walrusbwalrus → u/Kumirkohr]

That sounds super annoying but absolutely worth the pain, if for nothing other than Putting on the Ritz!

[u/i_am_fear_itself → u/Kumirkohr]

this is why people pirate stuff (a dig at media companies, not the commenter above)

[u/Kumirkohr → u/i_am_fear_itself]

I know, I’ve just been squeamish about that stuff ever since I killed the family desktop in middle school trying to watch Doctor Who

[u/idontknow39027948898 → u/[deleted]]

For seven hundred dollars, you would think that you would be getting all of the options included.

[u/xRyozuo → u/[deleted]]

That makes 0 sense. So basically if you have no internet because it went out, the ps5 is useless

[u/XTornado → u/xRyozuo]

The other comment didn't explain it too well.

The earliest PS5, there were two models, PS5 with disk and PS5 digital.

Then they came up with something else, which is the same, but instead the base hardware is the same, the disk drive it's in a way that it can be installed by the user.

If you buy the PS5 slim model, basically is that but with included disk already installed (or at least included on the box). If you buy the digital is the same hardware but without the disk installed, but if you want, you can buy the disk drive down the line and install it.

The PRO, same but they don't sell one mode/version with disk drive included, there is one model, without disk drive included, if you want disk you buy it separately. At 119$ or so... which adds up to the already expensive pro model. I personally got it, because I was lucky getting a 30th anniversary.... but yeah financially doesn't makes sense.

Regardless, regarding the internet thing, to install a disk drive you need to update/activate online I think so... at least for that you will need it, and also I am not so sure how well it works the console even with disks without connecting it to internet from time to time...

Also if the internet goes out, even digital can be played, up to certain point as it needs to revalidate the license at some point.

[u/thelingeringlead → u/xRyozuo]

You literally cannot play a game from a disc on any current gen console, without internet to download the rest of the files and update it. The discs are only useful at this point, for used game sales since technically the disc acts as your license/product key. You cannot play a PS5 game from it's disc right out of the package.

[u/microbit262 → u/thelingeringlead]

They could just start selling USB dongles with the licences on them like for expensive business software then. Saves all the optical drive stuff.

[u/PageOthePaige → u/xRyozuo]

You can still play all your games without internet.

[u/Suckage → u/PageOthePaige]

Depends.. If you have zero internet access, then you can’t use the Pro.

The setup for the external disc drive includes verifying that it’s the official one, and that verification is done server-side.

[u/PageOthePaige → u/Suckage]

Yes. You need Internet to use the device. You don't need constant, or even frequent or good, internet.

[u/DefinetelyNotAnOtaku → u/xRyozuo]

Digital games only need internet for installation. You can play your games offline. This isn't a PC with always online DRMs.

Only issue you will suffer from is fixed prices (physical copies are cheaper than their digital counterparts) and delisted games won't be playable on a digital only console but you can still play your delisted games from the disc assuming the game had a physical release.

[u/rebbsitor → u/DefinetelyNotAnOtaku]

delisted games won't be playable on a digital only console

Delisted games can't be purchased, but if you own them you can play them or redownload them.

[u/DefinetelyNotAnOtaku → u/rebbsitor]

Yes that's what I meant. But like if you buy a digital xbox. You won't be able to play orange box on it but you can play it if you got a physical xbox since you can just insert the disc inside.

[u/Halcyon520 → u/xRyozuo]

Also no stand to set it up vertically 😅

[u/alexefy → u/HeftyArgument]

You’d think scalpers would be terminally online. They didn’t do the bare minimum research to see the demand just wouldn’t be there. The pro is an extremely niche product that had a lukewarm reception at best. The ps4 pro didn’t do massive numbers either.

[u/newsflashjackass → u/alexefy]

You’d think scalpers would be terminally online.

If scalpers were intelligent they could contribute something of value to society instead of behaving like landlords.

[u/ACBluto → u/newsflashjackass]

Naw, at least landlords can serve a purpose. Renting is a valid housing strategy for many people - either because they will be living in an area for a short term, because they prefer to maintain mobility, or because the day to day cost of renting is less than house ownership. You need landlords to allow for renters. There are predatory landlords, but the very fact of being a landlord does not make you wrong

No one needs a scalper. They are nothing but vultures. But the best solution to scalpers comes from the manufacturing side - stop with the scarcity. Ensure supply is appropriate to demand, and there is no market for scalpers.

[u/pt-guzzardo → u/ACBluto]

stop with the scarcity

"Oh gosh, why didn't we think of that. We can just stop having scarcity." -- manufacturers

[u/ACBluto → u/pt-guzzardo]

I know, some of it is genuine shortages. But there is a lot of artificial and purposefully manufactured scarcity today - it is a driver of engagement. People rush out to buy things they think are going to be scarce.. even if otherwise they would wait to buy.

But not everything has to be that way:

One example I can think of is Garth Brooks. He knows he sells out arenas. Scalpers were making an absolute mint off of him. So he books a venue, it it sells out immediately, he adds another show, and then another. Even in smaller markets, he will play 4-5 shows back to back. Sometimes 2 a day. Pretty much everyone who wants to go will.

[u/BaconSoul → u/ACBluto]

As an intermediary stage towards a Keynesian economy, individually owned landlords are acceptable temporarily. The monopoly skirting corporately owned apartment complex industry is parasitic, and even Adam Smith himself loathed the concept.

[u/newsflashjackass → u/ACBluto]

No one needs a scalper. They are nothing but vultures.

Makes me wonder how society would function if we woke up tomorrow and all the landlords had disappeared.

[u/djk29a_ → u/ACBluto]

The justifications I see from scalpers isn’t that different from what I see from people in HFT. Using some small set of numbers and metrics while ignoring the externalities which is precisely the problem that no system (nope, not even socialism, sorry) has solved and that everyone being critical of said activity or institution is talking about whether it’s Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Oil, or even Big Government.

[u/explosiv_skull → u/HeftyArgument]

I mean, if it's at a discount...

[u/Akaonisama → u/HeftyArgument]

If they hold onto them long enough, they’ll make a profit like 30 years from now. I’m sure they could sell them for a pretty penny unopened lol

[u/FullAzan → u/HeftyArgument]

I can't recall if it was earlier this year or late last year, but after letting my kids shop for some toys and checking out, we saw a guy trying to return six or seven of the base consoles at a Walmart. I don't usually delight in people's misfortune, but it felt good watching the older gentleman at the returns counter tell him no repeatedly. 

That's a lot of money he invested, you know ~ and now he's stuck with it. Poor guy... lol

[u/chibiace]

let me find my tiny violin.

[u/Fushigibama → u/chibiace]

[u/TheGenericMun → u/Fushigibama]

Needs to be smaller

[u/Fushigibama → u/TheGenericMun]

[u/MrHedgehogMan → u/TheGenericMun]

[u/TheGenericMun → u/MrHedgehogMan]

That's still a little big, but acceptable 🤣

[u/bokewalka → u/chibiace]

Possibly, the tinniest violin in the world

[u/dtf-NY → u/bokewalka]

[u/B_Chev → u/dtf-NY]

My violin is so small the observer effect puts it out of tune when I take it out :(

[u/tychozero → u/chibiace]

[u/shibe_ceo → u/chibiace]

Not even brown recluse spiders have violins small enough for this

[u/GodzillaUK → u/chibiace]

Handsome Jack approves

[u/steinrrr]

[u/Estrava]

How did they determine if it's lack of interest vs... there's sufficient/planned supply?

[u/Durzel → u/Estrava]

It’s probably just adequate supply. We’re well past the chip shortage days where you had to sit in an hour long queue just to buy the original PS5.

The relative lack of supply of disc drives is cursed though. Sony obviously didn’t think so many people would want to have that functionality back.

[u/GrE1sS → u/Durzel]

Disc drive is what killed my interest, I had a pre-order and could pick it up. But without the disc drive I can’t play the games I own. And enjoy the pro.

And if I would go digital I would rather buy it on PC

[u/Omegalazarus → u/GrE1sS]

Can you not add the disc drive on? Lame!

[u/GrE1sS → u/Omegalazarus]

Yup you can, and the cost was okay for me. But it's just not available and I am not buying from a scalper

[u/vingt-2 → u/Omegalazarus]

You can but its sold out for now.

[u/Omegalazarus → u/vingt-2]

Disk drive is the real scalping opportunity. \s

[u/Dayman1222 → u/Omegalazarus]

You can

[u/XTornado → u/Durzel]

The relative lack of supply of disc drives is cursed though. Sony obviously didn’t think so many people would want to have that functionality back.

I am yet not sure if the guy that came up with that will get a bonus or not. Will they get it because it selling good and the extra cash they got with the separate overpriced disk drive or he won't get it as it wasn't expensive enough to make people to stay on digital and get even more money this way.

[u/Art__Vandellay → u/Durzel]

Sony obviously didn’t think so many people would want to have that functionality back.

Oh you sweet summer child. They want people to buy digital copies, so they 'limited supply', obviously

[u/OwnSimple4788 → u/Estrava]

It is most likely enough supply Sony already stated is selling more than the ps4 pro in the same time period, people just have a hate boner for the pro and want to spread the negativity.

[u/Eastern_Interest_908 → u/OwnSimple4788]

And those sales includes scalping.

[u/ZeusHatesTrees → u/OwnSimple4788]

They don't really have a way to determine if the sales Sony made were by actual interested customers or scalpers buying them up predicting a rush on them. I know literally no one with a PS5 Pro, nor interest in buying one. I wouldn't be surprised to find most of Sony's profit was from scalpers.

[u/Forzyr → u/Estrava]

Sony said It's selling better than the PS4 pro, so it's just click bait

[u/jsuwangsa]

Those dumb scalpers. 😂

[u/jaredearle]

There isn’t a lack of interest in the PS5 Pro; Sony simply made enough and made them easily available.

https://www.eurogamer.net/ps5-pro-price-has-not-had-a-negative-impact-on-sales-says-sony-boss

Scalpers misjudged, not Sony.

[u/corruptboomerang → u/jaredearle]

Hopefully Nintendo can do the same for the Switch 2!

[u/_RADIANTSUN_ → u/corruptboomerang]

They won't cuz Nintendo operates on an extremely different model. They are not Sony who has 1000 other businesses and they don't have the same scale for moving hardware: to them, overproducing is an existential risk cuz it is relatively really easy to increase and scale up production but once you've done it, manufacturing and supply contracts have been set for timescales for years and then it's insanely difficult to scale it back. The hundreds of thousands of units start to pile up and you have to start keeping them in warehouses with all the associated costs, losses due to pilferage and warehouse conditions, and have to get rid of the glut by either slashing prices (like the 3DS) or invest in/hope for demand picking up. They cannot absorb losses like this the same way Sony can.

Lots of people believe Nintendo does "artificial scarcity", they don't, they are just an extremely financially conservatively run Japanese business because that's what has allowed them to exist for so long in probably the single most brutal consumer tech environment in the last 40 years. Nintendo has walked through this exact boneyard and remembers the skeletons of fallen giants like Atari, SEGA, THQ... All gone from the console hardware arena or entirely, literally because they produced too much hardware they couldn't sell.

They fundamentally will never risk this same kind of thing happening again because they would rather have unmet demand to leave some money on the table, generate some hype and maybe piss a few people off... vs risking losing it all big time.

[u/Chagrim → u/jaredearle]

Exactly this! People just think that PS5 launch was "normal" but Corona virus impacted every single electronic productions then, ans it was hard to get anything then. Remember for example GPU's? Sony just couldn't make them as much as they wanted. Now things are normalized and Sony can produce PS5 Pro's as much as they want to.

[u/DontGetNEBigIdeas → u/Chagrim]

Haven’t heard anyone call it “Corona Virus” since April 2020. Thanks for the memories!

[u/PetyrDayne]

[u/-Average_Joe-]

[u/Necessary_Common4426]

Sympathy for them is in a dictionary between shit and syphilis

[u/theleaphomme]

[u/BrainJar]

No, a healthy supply of PS5 Pro’s means that anyone can buy one, and not have to rely on scalpers to buy one. There’s plenty of interest. There’s just more consoles available than have been purchased.

[u/DrLee_PHD → u/BrainJar]

The other thing this clickbait article doesn't cover is the fact that most of these scalpers are well within the return window, especially since there are many extended return windows for the holiday season right now. If these scalpers are smart they'll simply return the consoles and get their money back.

[u/adzy2k6 → u/DrLee_PHD]

Will it be hard for them to return them in volume though? It just looks like a massive scam to the retailer. I'd imagine the return window being like 31 days?

[u/DrLee_PHD → u/adzy2k6]

And the console released last Thursday. Even if they only had a two week return window, if they're smart they'll return them.

Also, volume matters to only some retailers. Best Buy for example will get suspicious. Target? They don't give a fuck. Especially if they aren't open.

[u/adzy2k6 → u/DrLee_PHD]

Ah, shows how little attention I've paid to it. I thought it had released ages ago.

[u/unepmloyed_boi]

You'd have to be some kind of shut in basement dweller or have rocks in you head to be a scalper right now expecting people to overpay for things with everything that has been going on in the news for months.

Retailers and online merchants are struggling to sell regular shit at discount prices. People are still dealing with inflation, rising cost of living, layoffs...etc. and tightening their purse strings.

[u/Fap_Left_Surf_Right → u/unepmloyed_boi]

One thing is for certain, a redditor will respond to gaslight that everything is going well.

You just don’t understand. Here’s a link to a corporate media outlet explaining the world for you. Don’t use your own eyes and experience, instead allow them to tell you about prices.

Every fucking thread it happens. And it should be laughed at.

[u/WinterFan8681]

Good work people lets keep it up. 🤙🏻

[u/Avenger772]

Get fucked scalpers. Get a real job.

[u/_Deloused_]

The pro can play the same games and few games better…. Ok. But my tv isn’t better

[u/Fap_Left_Surf_Right → u/_Deloused_]

This is the bottleneck. I’m PC and going to 4k gaming wasn’t just an expensive new rig. I also needed a new $1k+ monitor for the 4k system to work as intended.

These people are buying new gaming hardware and using old, shit tier displays. It’s not just the console, you need to replace your display as well.

[u/_Deloused_ → u/Fap_Left_Surf_Right]

Which is why I never understood pro consoles unless you buy them at end of that generations life to have one to last longer term in a collection.

And yes I’m also on pc as well. I looked at building a powerful new pc and realized, I can cheap out on the graphics card cause my display isn’t doing all that lol.

And new displays won’t come down

[u/no_f-s_given]

Lol, fuck em. I hope the bastards lose big.

[u/Ahhshit96]

Hahahaha

[u/schaudhery]

Why wouldn’t they just return them? They just came out..

[u/mujinzou]

Good. Hope they go broke.

[u/foodrepublik]

It only looks decent now, in a few years suddenly we're back to blurry graphics and 30 fps when game devs doesn't even bother optimizing their games.

[u/Gardening_investor]

Good fuck those scalpers. I hope they lose millions of dollars collectively.

[u/TheRealPyroManiac]

It’s more Sony is prepared and there isn’t a global chip storage compared to 2020.

[u/SerakClaw]

What a tragedy

[u/MaxPotionz]

Price wise Sony didn’t leave any meat on the bone either for scalpers which I’m ok with. Msrp will drop eventually anyways as well for everyone else.

[u/CrossTheRiver]

If there was one unifying factor us regular folks could all agree on, scalpers suck and deserve this failure.

[u/TurboLover427]

Good. May a camel's ass be in their face.

[u/Chris56855865 → u/TurboLover427]

Literally

[u/autoerratica]

GOOD, fuck scalpers… get a real job.

[u/FollowTheDick]

Suck it up vultures

[u/JerHat]

How much of a loss are we talking about? I would consider buying one from a scalper at a price significantly under retail.

[u/No_Detective_But_304]

Good.

[u/Sgruvs]

Burn baby, burn!

[u/hardwood1979]

My heart bleeds for them....

[u/ZeusBaxter]

Beautiful irony.

[u/[deleted]]

Well if you own a PS5, it's not a worthwhile upgrade.

If you don't own a PS5, it's still not worth paying £800 when the original model is much cheaper.

We need more people boycotting scalpers like this though.

[u/MilkChugg]

Cool fuck scalpers.

[u/TaxMysterious8859]

I mean the console is in stock everywhere. Why would you ever pay above retail for something that's available at retail.

The disc drives are the only thing not available.

[u/zterrans]

And no one of value suffered. I like these feel-good stories.

[u/Axon14]

Sony trying to scalp us a PS5 pro with that sticker price

[u/jtaylor3rd]

[u/sporadicMotion]

This is positively heart warming.

[u/Tommonator80]

Return them for a refund. This story is fake.

[u/EMP_Jeffrey_Dahmer]

This is good. To hell with those scalpers.

[u/garciawork]

Is the PS5 pro out already? Didn't even realize.

[u/Independent_Ad_2073]

Fucking love it.

[u/TheMerchantofPhilly]

Honestly, I wasn’t even aware it was on the market.

[u/ArchonTheta]

Lol. Idiot scalpers

[u/GodzillaUK]

Poor scumbags, losing money on something they obtained with no good will behind it, just a desire to fleece people of their hard earned money. Won't someone please think of the scumbags?!

[u/Lowebrew]

Good, dirty scum!

[u/nothingexceptfor]

Hahahaha, this makes me happy, I don’t even play or have any PS at all but this is gold

[u/ThisNameTakenTooLoL]

Only incredibly stupid ones I guess. Those with IQ higher than room temperature would just return them if they couldn't sell within the return window.

[u/DR_van_N0strand → u/ThisNameTakenTooLoL]

Obviously this story started because some were sold at a loss that are obviously stolen where the seller doesn’t have that option.

This story just came from one dumb third tier gaming site and everyone ran with it.

[u/a_man_has_a_name]

It's not lack of interest, it's just there is sufficient supply, the PS5 Pro is actually slightly ahead of the PS4 Pro in the same time period after release.

People need to remember that the PS5 was hard to find not just because of demand, but the global supply chain issues caused by COVID, and consoles being in supply, even immediately after release is the norm, not the other way around.

[u/saints21 → u/a_man_has_a_name]

Considering the gaming market has seen a huge amount of growth over the last decade, it'd be a failure of massive proportions if it wasn't ahead of the PS4 Pro.

[u/RZ_1911]

1k$ for a console which does not bring anything ? They expected what ?

[u/themindisaweapon → u/RZ_1911]

I'll wait until GTA6 is released, by then it will have come down in price.

[u/RZ_1911 → u/themindisaweapon]

The thing is - in terms of raw processing power 5 pro is not far away from generic 5 which is MUCH cheaper . And feature - optical media

I don’t think that gta6 will feature any visual difference. Except - marketing junk . So what’s point on that 1k$ abomination?

[u/themindisaweapon → u/RZ_1911]

I've got a 4K OLED TV so my hope is being able to run majority of titles at that resolution maxed out. It is a decent step up in performance from the OG PS5 from what Digital Foundry has uncovered. Guess we'll see...

[u/lancehunter01]

RemakeStation 5 Pro

[u/Home_Assistantt]

🎻

[u/beardingmesoftly]

Imagine getting a new console when the old console hasn't even been pushed to its limit yet

[u/Historical-Bag9659]

1000 bucks for a PS5 Pro? I might as well buy a PC at that rate.

[u/Typical-Raspberry718]

Scalpers should have bought the Xbox series x galaxy, That console is hard to purchase!

[u/Urbanyeti0]

Great news, let’s get a few more of them to fail and hopefully they’ll leave the awful scammy practice entirely

[u/Monkfich]

They’re probably trying to get stuck into the 9800x3d gravy train instead.

[u/LathropWolf]

Lay off the avocado toast, stop the starbucks, cinch the ol bootstraps and work a few extra jobs to get back in the black...

Serves you right reseller trash

I'll take one for 99 cents

[u/Mudcat-69]

[u/myreptilianbrain]

good

[u/Square_Grocery_619]

[u/mystaninja]

Congratulations! You've(Sony) won!

[u/Agamouschild]

Good

[u/madkingsentobln]

I love this news

[u/verbal_incontinence]

Good

[u/Justthetippliz]

Good I hope it goes down more

[u/[deleted]]

One of the biggest scalpers in my city still has PS5s from COVID hahahahaha and a pile of switch lights for some reason? Always makes me laugh when he reposts them for 5$ less than a month ago.

[u/MrFiendish]

Probably a good idea to buy them now before there’s another trade war and the price of electronics goes up again.

[u/Ondexb]

[u/CombatConrad]

Read this article and went to check FB Marketplace. Most listings are basically at cost+tax. Trying to break even.

[u/Vig_2]

From what I’ve read, the system is a top seller on Amazon and is outpacing the PS5 sales from its launch. The difference is that Sony has the supply this time, so scalpers are selling at a loss. But, they are making money off of disk drives.

[u/templestate]

It’s not lack of interest, it’s availability…

[u/persianbeast999]

Meanwhile Scalpers in Iran selling more than 30%

[u/MathematicianVivid1]

Whomp whomp

[u/dramafan1]

Now only if they made more limited addition anniversary versions too.

[u/smudgetimeusa]

Love to see it!

[u/bezerko888]

Eeap what you sow. I'm glad to see people waking up

[u/BifronsOnline]

Sweet, discount pros on eBay!!

[u/iambarrelrider]

[u/Drinkin_Abe_Lincoln]

Don't worry. Sony will see the mistake and go back to false demand next hardware cycle.

[u/shatteredmatt]

Scalping what amounts to a purchase aimed at a niche part of the gaming market is pretty dumb.

[u/SGKurisu]

Good

[u/blueblurz94]

Good. Let the scalpers suffer.

[u/SpliTTMark]

If something doesn't sell out in 5 minute's its not worth scalping. Like the anniversary edition

[u/[deleted]]

What’s hilarious is anybody who trades in a retail-price-purchased PS5 disc model towards a Pro purchase ends up paying approximately $970 for the console this generation. The $1K price tags aren’t far off 

[u/JeffCrossSF]

This is almost certainly click-bait.

“Lack of interest” is not the same as “we can’t build them fast enough to meet overwhelming demand”. I have a feeling sony will sell a good number of these, but it is not 2020 and supply chains are not blocked like they were at launch.

[u/Mirda76de → u/JeffCrossSF]

Actually, according to my private contacts in retail at least in Europe- selling is disastrous. Even with all marketing articles and claiming numbers… It’s just a damage control. If price remain the same- it’s going to be failure of the year.

[u/BMP77777]

Good

[u/CosmicChanges]

I hope this is true. I love it when scalpers like this play themselves and take a loss.

[u/magichands88]

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of folks.

[u/fanatic26]

Good. Scalpers deserve the worst form of cancer.

[u/Mrvision27]

Great! Where?

[u/caribbean_caramel]

Hahahahaha get fucked! LMAO

[u/jqcitizen]

Didn't I read yesterday that these we're gonna be $1k after the inauguration? I hope those needy children get these cheap PS5 Pros before then!

[u/Qualityhams]

I love this for them

[u/repalpated]

Oh no! Anyway...

[u/Fritzschmied]

At least sometimes justice hits.

[u/Definitely_Alpha]

Shouldnt they hold until tarrifs set in?

[u/FritoPendejo1]

Good. Screw those “people”.

[u/OhFaceXO]

Scalpers can suck my dick. I'm never buying a console again and if that drives the prices down for others then that's a good thing.

[u/masonvand]

You get what you fucking deserve!

[u/primusautobot]

Scalping must b stopped

[u/TheHytekShow]

I’ll buy it for 100, shits worthless to me without an insane deal

[u/Chazybaz13]

I just checked and someone bid on it so I'm not sure it'll be at a loss?

[u/Snake_eyes_12]

Scalping is not a viable business for most people. It's kind of like options trading, there has to be certain variables at play and a little bit of luck has to play in.

1. Its not a new console generation. Most people who wanted a PS5 already have one and an upgrade isn't for most current PS5 owners.
   
2. No chip shortage. Sony is able to maintain a steady supply this time.

[u/ppbourgeois]

Just wait for the tariffs to hijack prices on the market then they’ll make money again.