Yeah wouldn’t shock me if this generation had a serious game drought due to system shortages. Why release a AAA game if no one can play it. Happy I got my family all the PS5s and Xboxes we wanted to game together. I gave one to my nephew in July for his bday and he literally shit a brick lol. He flexed on all his 9 year old friends. He made fun of the kid who made fun of him for having a PS4 and not a Xbox one X.
Nah they started role playing Minecraft.
People keep saying this, but even if bots and scalpers buy up a bunch they do sell them to end users that will use them. That's kind of the point of buying one to scalp, eventually selling it to someone. Just because demand is higher than supply does not equate to the supply being low. It just means the demand is higher than that. As I understand, the PS5 has sold even more at this point than the PS4, and no one would have suggested the PS4 was under-available at this point in its life.
Someone did an analysis of units sold and those that are active and something 10-20% weren’t active. That means like 1.3-2.6M PS5s are in scalper inventory….maybe more…this also mean the scalp value is artificial inflated by this inventory. I’ll try to find the article. This doesn’t surprise me. Scalpers are basically holding on to inventory to keep prices up and acting in an organized way. Something we really haven’t seen because you can’t get them in store. Really if they did in store drops only a lot of these problems would be solved.
Yes, I could see that and it sounds about right. More dedicated scalpers might be holding consoles for the holidays to make an even larger premium. And it is fairly common knowledge Walmart and others are holding onto stock for Black Friday weekend. Tons of them are still being sold, and even with scalpers sitting on maybe 10% that's a ton of them out there and scalpers aren't going to sit on their stock forever. It certainly isn't going to deter game publishers from making and releasing games because scalpers or retailers may be sitting on stock. And the main point of what I was saying is a scalper sale might temporarily take a console out of an end user's hands - it isn't going to stay out forever. They aren't a black hole. Every one sold at retail, be it to scalper or end user, will eventually be played and have games bought for.
I was just going to ask if anyone was able to grab ether. Seems like for most it was a no go.
I saw a few people post that they were able to get it. I think it's just refreshing at the right time. I had the NIST clock up and refreshed a few minutes before to see how long it took. Then, 3 seconds before noon, I refreshed it and got in the line with 5 minutes. I've gotten that before and when it counted down to one, it shot back up to 60 min. This time, I was surprised to see it added to cart and gave me a 10 minute window to complete the transaction.
s? Sitting on about $400 in shopkick credit that I could use to get Sony bucks and not sure if I should do so.
Got one of these, I ignored it assuming it was a scam.Just got an email from Playstation for EXCLUSIVE ACCESS ON: November 9, 11:00 – 16:00 PT to purchase a PS5.
Are these usually slamdunks or giant cluster
you can't use playstation credit to purchase physical items, so if that is what your plan is I wouldn't do it.Just got an email from Playstation for EXCLUSIVE ACCESS ON: November 9, 11:00 – 16:00 PT to purchase a PS5.
Are these usually slamdunks or giant cluster
Thanks, good to know.
Was you able to get a PS5 easily from Sony direct? I as well just received this same email from Playstation for EXCLUSIVE ACCESS ON: November 16, 11:00 – 16:00 PT to purchase a PS5.Just got an email from Playstation for EXCLUSIVE ACCESS ON: November 9, 11:00 – 16:00 PT to purchase a PS5.
Are these usually slamdunks or giant cluster
My Walmart + order from November 8th came a few days ago
This wasn't a Walmart+ order so looks like us peons don't take precedence. Kind of dirty lol.
Yeah it is kinda dirty, especially cause my delivery date was estimated Nov 25th and when it came the other day I was shocked
No I was put into a 30 minute wait right at 11am and was shown as sold out before I got a chance. My 30 minute wait did only last 15 mins...so I guess they saved me another 15 of waiting before rejecting me.
Hell yeah! The 1 year hunt for a PS5 is over for me. I was able to purchase a PS5 (physical) via Sony PS5 direct. Got in at 11:28am, 10 minutes wait, add a PS5 physical to cart, and checkout with express free shipping. Just need Sony to email me a tracking number so I can know for sure I'm getting it forreal.
Nice. Congrats. I'm hoping to get one of the bundles from Costco one of these days.Hell yeah! The 1 year hunt for a PS5 is over for me. I was able to purchase a PS5 (physical) via Sony PS5 direct. Got in at 11:28am, 10 minutes wait, add a PS5 physical to cart, and checkout with express free shipping. Just need Sony to email me a tracking number so I can know for sure I'm getting it forreal.
So if your not a Walmart plus member then it’s pointless to even try on their site ? At this rate it seems like instead of the stores combating bots and scalpers making 200, the stores found out a way to make the 200 themselves….
Congrats the one nice thing about getting it a year later you have more games to jump into right away! Those of us that got it at launch had some excellent games to play in Miles Morales, Sackboy, and Demon Souls but you get to jump right in with those games plus Ratchet, Returnal, Kena, Village at many more great games.Hell yeah! The 1 year hunt for a PS5 is over for me. I was able to purchase a PS5 (physical) via Sony PS5 direct. Got in at 11:28am, 10 minutes wait, add a PS5 physical to cart, and checkout with express free shipping. Just need Sony to email me a tracking number so I can know for sure I'm getting it forreal.
I got an invite for tomorrow. So I guess even though it says I have from 11-4 that I really need to do it at 11?
Could be - I've never ordered anything physical from Sony before. You'd think they would know that I have Plus and send me the appropriate email. But every time I log in to get the PS+ games they ask me to add a Plus membership even though I'm paid up for 2+ years. After clicking around for a while the site finally "remembers" and I can get the PS+ games. So it could just be that their system is janky. Not a good sign for tomorrow but we'll see.
Sony didn't send me a tracking # or letting me know that it was shipped until that morning out for delivery. But my FedEx app on my phone sent me a notification last night that I'm expecting a large package that required a signature. If you want download the FedEx app for your phone and add your address and name. The app can text you to let you know it's out for delivery and that it was delivered and signed.
Such a joke. A year later and you can’t find this thing
Our reliance on China (trade and manufacturing) is the joke.
This isn't meant to instigate in any way.
