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Ebb1993
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I hope you're right, Sony, because I've made it one of my New Year's Resolutions to get a PS5.
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Thespacemaster
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Yeah right, easier for the scalpers to buy them and keep the prices high or better yet, retailers will buy more but sell em high cause everyone has gotten used to the larger prices.
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Animeking1108
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Nah, scalpers will be busy hoarding the PS5 Slim. Joking aside, lately, I've been finding PS5s in stores more often. |
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gsilver
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I still have yet to see a PS5 on the shelf in any physical store. In placed like Best Buy, they have frosted glass in the cabinets that would be used to house them, and places like Target fill them with controllers. Not only do they not have the consoles in stock, they're diverting the stock that they do have almost exclusively to their online stores, which scalpers vacuum up with their bots. Things have gotten better recently, but it's still effectively an online-only item.
If anything, I largely blame the retailers for this situation. If they simply sold consoles in stores like every other mainstream product, scalpers would at the least be limited to geographic areas that they could physically get to, and a few jerks at the beginning wouldn't lead to the perpetual cycle of unavailability that we've had this generation. I really hope that Sony just releases the rest of their back catalog to the PC (or at least Bloodborne and Demon's Souls) so I won't even need one of their consoles. I really don't like another giant expensive box under my TV for the games that I can only play on their systems. |
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Rogueywon
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Here in London, the PS5 has been fairly consistently on the shelves since early December. It's been in stock on Amazon UK for a similar length of time. There's a 1-per-family limit, but that's about it.
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Chris Handsome
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Why get a PS5 when a mid-range PC is more than satisfactory? PS5 has barely anything worthwhile that wasn't already on PS3 or PS4 and has been on PC or is coming to PC.
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residentgrigo
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Let's get the console price back to what it was before. At a minimum. The price jump reminded me of the PS3 hybris. The worst Sony decision in almost 2 decades. Their one big L this gen.
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Ninten
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We're in the 3rd year of this current "next gen" and I still have no incentive to buy a PS5 or Xbox Series, it's pretty crazy. They really need to make console generations longer from now on.
EDIT: typo Last edited by Ninten on Fri Jan 06, 2023 5:04 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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BadNewsBlues
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Right after other companies give their tech longer life spans. |
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CrypticPurpose
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Probably because "insentive" isn't a word 
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jdnation
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Will wait for Death Stranding 2. Or Silent Hill F.
Whichever's first... Then again, PS4 is still eating pretty good with Grim Grimoire on the way, and likely whatever Project Re;Fantasy is. |
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LadonTree
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I wanting one of these for a while, then gave up and lost interest. Maybe I'll get one if I don't have to look to hard.
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Leviathonlx1
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Here in the US it's been constantly available on the Playstation Store.
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SilverTalon01
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I think this will be the first Playstation that I won't own. If the availability was reasonable early on, I might have picked one up, but I'm not buying one from a reseller. I don't really care about the increase in price this gen as it isn't even half of what I spent on a GPU. They just don't have any exclusive must haves for me, and the appeal of using it to play PS4 games after passing on the PS4 Pro has disappeared as my backlog of PS4 games I want to play has disappeared. Now my backlog is on Steam so even if they do pull one really exciting exclusive out, I'd literally be buying a PS5 for one game. |
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NeoStrayCat
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You mean PS Direct. But yeah, ever since the release of the GOW: Ragnarok bundle, getting a PS5 was already easier (in the US), though yeah, most won't want the bundle, but the console itself. I assume other regions have their availability different. |
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