There are no words strong enough to describe how much I disagree with this. I would say it’s more of an indication that they don’t expect the supply to get much better any time soon so they might as well have SOMETHING to sell people who want to buy their consoles
They have sold a pretty good amount of PS5s, I know demand is higher than ever, but it’s oddly priced right now at the same price as the Series S $299, I don’t know when they publish their investor reports but I can’t help but feel they were feeling left out in the sub $500 range, console sales between Sony and MS are closer than we have ever seen.
what probably happened is their suppliers had a bunch of ps4 binned components they could sell on the low and it’s a good opportunity to clear out the channel or remaining inventory Sony had. Still surprised these haven’t hit shelves. I personally haven’t seen a ps4/pro restock in a year.
Nice I jump on that for my younger nephews. PS4 and cross gen will be around for at least another 2-3 years because of the supply issues with next gen.
They’re not doing it because they “feel left out”, they’re doing it because they’re a company looking to make money on a product while their biggest attraction is hard to get. As far as the pricing goes, how much would you sell it for? The PS5 disc version sells for 499, the digital sells for 399. Wouldn’t 299 seem the obvious price procession?
My sister bought a 1 tb slim last week at Target. It was $299.
I find 299 very weird, I think when you have 54 percent less TFLOPiddy, you can’t expect to charge the same as your competitor. Heck the PS4 Pro was on sale as low as $210 at Kohl’s or could be had for around $225 with different Target deals. Now I get right now nothing is priced as it used to be, but even with that, I think 249 could be a very competitive price point to help them move those units. I personally enjoy the PS exclusives more so they could be hoping that even a lower powered console will sell well with their solid game lineup, and I think this could absolutely be true. As far as their current console hard to get, it’s been a huge improvement this week, I think all the scalpers will panic and sell while they can still make something, and this will, I hope, improve the situation for all.
Yes because this hasn’t been speculated constantly over the past year…
I’ve seen a lot of discord groups expecting a shortage well through 2022, many cook groups even yesterday were hitting 6k checkouts via Walmart, will we see a repeat of last year, where the price dropped only to go up a month later and stay up the rest of the year, time will tell. The only thing cooking in those groups is soon to be disappointment.
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They're not wrong. I got 10% off my switch OLED when walmart's preorders just sat without an update for about 2 weeks after launch.
Thanks for the tip!
Ayy bro shoutouts to you, I just got off customer service chat and they initiated a 10% discount on my order.
Tried to grab a second digital edition for a family member, was in line and nada. Sold out now lol
I hear yah. Wouldn’t mind a second ps5 or Xbox series x for my bedroom.
This is why no one likes you.
My third is going in my bathroom…wish I could do that with my no 2 consoles though.
did you even have a choice?
Target is really awful. I tried to get one 3 different times and finally was able to buy one which eventually got cancelled.
