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Retail stores in the UK are setting up PS5 themed stalls [UP- Sony: “not PS5 related”]
- Thread starter YawZah
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Doubtful, it's their approach to getting people aware of the selling power of DualSense. I doubt anything other than that just yet. We're ages away from price.
Lol it sure is. Worst electronics store going.
Lovely stuff! Starts to feel real, right...
Highlights how fucking weird this launch period is gonna be though. The pandemic instantly makes me wince at the sight of using a sofa and a controller in a public space like this. My local GAME store (UK too) won't let more than three customers in at a time and you're not allowed to touch anything on the shelves. You have to ask one of the two members of staff for the thing you want when you enter and they get it for you. You're only allowed to stand in the queue at the register.
Highlights how fucking weird this launch period is gonna be though. The pandemic instantly makes me wince at the sight of using a sofa and a controller in a public space like this. My local GAME store (UK too) won't let more than three customers in at a time and you're not allowed to touch anything on the shelves. You have to ask one of the two members of staff for the thing you want when you enter and they get it for you. You're only allowed to stand in the queue at the register.
its just a glass case full of bugsnax and they'll break the glass case and the bugsnax will be unleasehed everywhere and nowhere will be safe anymore
Feels too early for playable demos, probably just a dummy console with a sizzle reel on repeat.
For people to really experience to DualSense they probably won't make them wear gloves. If you hand sanny up before and after and have an attendant wipe off the controller between people I think you can achieve the same thing. Mask required of course.
Target stores near me removed all video game, phone, and tablet trial machines. Creating kiosks for new consoles right now feels like a bad idea. But I'm in the US where things are awful, so perhaps this works elsewhere. Regardless, I don't need a kiosk to convince me to pre order. Just let me do it.
Standing in a shop watching a sizzle reel isn't likely to happen anytime soon either.
It's not that much better here but it's starting to open up. Shops are still full of social distancing methods and, as of Friday, masks are mandatory in stores for the first time.
This feels like a calculated bet that in x weeks everyone will be back to normal.
In germany it is almost back to normal, well, the new normal, with facemask and sanitizer dispensers.
I hope the US will follow soon.
Nice design for a kiosk.
Doubt it unless Microsoft reveal their price. They will both probably leave it as late as possible and do it at their August shows.
It's laughable to me that Sony even feel the need to advertise in the UK. Everyone I know is PlayStation obsessed. Even casual gamers are all about the PS5 already. I'm the strange Nintendo guy to them lol even though I'll have a PS5 on day one.
I'd imagine retail does know something, considering they'll be putting preorders up.
what a strange comment. You don't stay popular/on top by not doing anything. Do McDonalds/Samsung/Apple/Coca Cola/Disney just not bother advertising because they're at the top?
I assume it might be that astrobot demo that people can use to get familiar with the controller and then a sizzle reel of their other games. Awesome to see this going up though and hopefully we get some here in the states so i can go see the size of the console in real life.
They will definitely maintain that mind share with no advertising. Why even bother!
that kiosk isn't something they've just put together because employees are bored; it'll be from Sony themselves