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[Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

My ps5 is collecting dust. I wish it was more like a Steam machine.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago

"GOOD GOOD"

"Twice the pride double the fall."'

"I've been looking forward to this."

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

still be sitting onthe shelf after the holidays at that price point

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The supply chain problems of covid REALLY broke everyone.

Consoles selling out is actually "bad". Why? Because they are closed gardens. If people can go down to best buy or browse amazon and pick up a console they are more likely to buy a few games to go with it. Rather than needing to frantically monitor five different discord servers to get into a queue as fast as possible to MAYBE get one. The former encourages browsing and impulse buys. The latter is basically only for people with very targeted shopping lists.

Also... it is not even October. MAYBE come early November you can start to make these assessments for that most holy of holidays, Black Friday. But hell day and xmas are still months out and the holiday rush of shopping hasn't begun yet.

I personally see nothing compelling about the ps5 pro. But this is the equivalent of buying an xbox and saying microsoft are going to win because they have a stronger supply chain.