I know my last post was a tad ‘on the nose’. The PS5 has never been hard to get. I even accidentally bought one over a year ago. Had numerous times I could have bought them and if I was one of the scummy resellers, could have flipped a dozen by now.
How could you flipped a dozen by now if they were never hard to get? Why are/were people paying resellers more money then?
Resellers cornered the market. Which is completely wrong. I unfortunately know of two people who do it and make some side money from their day jobs.
They lose money on each console being made. This might have changed with recent redesigns, their recent 2021 Q3 is when it became proftiable. They make their money back on software sales and accessories.
What do you mean by newer one? As far as I know, there are only two models. Launch, which is heavy and better, and the second release, which they put cheaper parts in to cut cost and it runs hotter.
According to Eurogamers Digital Foundry and Steve at Gamers Nexus, you got them backwards and the heat thermal margins between them is pretty insignificant. You should watch Gamers Nexus in depth review of the launch and revised PS5.
If you've waited this long for a PS5, you might as well keep waiting as they don't seem to sell out instantly anymore.
it’s to the point if someone wants one and doesn’t own it already, they aren’t even trying.
Still refuse to buy a bundle that has a digital copy of a game instead of physical. Otherwise I'd consider it.
^This and I don't exactly have $550 plus tax/shipping burning a hole in my pocket.
Agreed. I'll take the non-bundle.
Why? Buy it, flip the digital game for an easy $30, then just buy a disc copy on sale and stuff it in the box so your bundle has a physical copy. Based on the news that came out yesterday about the next revision of the PS5, be prepared to embrace an all digital future because it is coming sooner than we all think. Wouldn't be shocked if MS makes a discless Series X in the next year or so as well.
That's the way to bring people to the digital only doom that is supposedly coming. Give the consumer an actual option like an external Blu-ray drive.
I would buy a non-4K PS5. A glorified PS4 Pro in a small case.
I don't know about an all digital Series X without even the option of being able to use an optical drive. I never understood the point of the all digital Xbox consoles.
The primary reason for going Digital is to cutout the middleman aka Gamestop. The Digital trend was a response to Gamestop encouraging used game sales. They boasted how much of a killing they were making in sales and that it was the driving force behind their sales which is true. I had a friend who was a Gamestop manager and he told me they made very little from new game sales and made up for it with used game sales.
As the consumer that buys more new games than used that's not my problem that Gamestop's business strategy of used game sales is cutting into profits of Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo.
Games are more expensive now. People are even poorer now. Games are worse now (in my opinion) and aren't worth investing the money into.
This is somewhat how I see things and can't figure out why a completely digital only console is even considered/exists.
I'm totally the opposite now. I rarely buy new games. I wait for them to show up on Game Pass and for me its totally free because I cash in my Microsoft Rewards points and buy 1 month subscriptions to Game Pass.
I bought a Series X thinking I'd be buying nothing but physical games. I've only bought 3 old games since getting it in January along with 30+ digital games all bought primarily with MS Rewards points. Xbox is the perfect poor person machine with MS Rewards and Gamepass. I was always physical only until finally getting good internet and getting back into Xbox this gen.
Cool, if that works for you. I just want more options.
30+ games?! If I had that kind of money I would so convert all of my discs into digital copies and dump the discs at Gamestop or some local video game store.
Fully aware of this news. It's slightly encouraging me to consider buying the disc based system this year, presuming I care enough to look for one.
I've only spent $30-40 of actual money on all of the digital games I've bought this year. I wait for huge sales and use the MS Rewards points from the 2 accounts I have on them. I wouldn't recommend a Series S just because of the price of additional storage alone. You spend $70-80 less on a Series S with a 512GB card than the X costs just to get the same amount of storage it has. Get one using All Access if you're a poor kid like me. Best investment in gaming I've ever met.
Getting rid of Gamestop is better described as a symptom of publishers' motivation, not the primary reason. I would argue that the primary reason isn't so much getting rid of retailer middlemen but procuring the data that comes with you having to be online to play your games.
And yet you are being tracked regardless whether you are playing a physical game or digital. Once you are connected to the internet all of your data the developer or publisher wants to see gets uploaded. We are living in an interconnected world. You are being tracked by your credit card purchases, your purchases from your smart phones, your smart devices you carry with you, your smart homes devices, how much electricity you are using and when you use it. Whether you play a digital game or insert a DVD it's al the same in the end.
This only further confirms my suspicion that they will never sell the console by itself again, but instead are forcing a stealth price hike on the consumer.
I'm not buying a digital game bundle, Sony. Sell the console by itself and I'll decide what retail physical game I want to go with it.
No mental gymnastics here.
There's nothing complicated about it. Sony is refusing to sell the console at the original $499.99 price point.
ing around and let me buy it, I'll buy it.
No, the PS5 is impossible to find because I say so, and I am not delusional at all. I'm definitely not lazy as shit with a bad attitude. Buy on Amazon??
