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The true price of a PlayStation 5
How much are the PS5, Xbox Series X, RTX 3080 and RX 6800 actually worth?
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Or a suburban upper-middle class parent looking to buy a new console for Christmas for their son/daughter
Please for the love of god don't buy them at these prices.
All it will do is tell scalpers is to do it more/continue doing it.
All it will do is tell scalpers is to do it more/continue doing it.
Na, I'm gonna go with people who have no respect for the value of a $$$
Or rich. For some people that premium is nothing, and time is more valuable to them than money.
or someone with more money than time. Some people don't want to be the first of thousands to click on websites every day just to nab one of these, and they have $1000 lying around for Christmas.
That's just the main demographic I've seen buying these consoles off of ebay
People buying consoles at these prices are the reason scalpers keep on scalping, Do NOT buy these consoles.
I am playing Ghost of Tsushima, Last Of Us 2, Spider Man Miles Morales and Sackboy Big Adventure and have Cyberpunk on the way, are better graphics and sound going to make these games better maybe but not £1000 better, I would rather wait until the consoles have received a few firmware updates and also it allows me to save up more, I want both PS5 and XboxX, I could buy both now but what is the point.
I am playing Ghost of Tsushima, Last Of Us 2, Spider Man Miles Morales and Sackboy Big Adventure and have Cyberpunk on the way, are better graphics and sound going to make these games better maybe but not £1000 better, I would rather wait until the consoles have received a few firmware updates and also it allows me to save up more, I want both PS5 and XboxX, I could buy both now but what is the point.
I see people talking about the LG TVs and looked at them before being shocked at the price. I was expecting maybe $1000, not 3X that.
I'm not shocked these consoles are being sold at a premium now. I'm more shocked there's enough who continue to buy them at this price.
While I personally wouldnt pay these prices, if you got the money to spend, then all the more power to you lol
I can more readily see paying a first-adopter premium for PS5 than a high end GPU. With the console, you're at least getting a new user experience, new controller, upgrades to your PS4 back catalog, etc... with a new GPU, you're getting literally the same experience. If you really needed an upgrade, you could probably get one just for the $500 premium on the 3080. There won't be games taxing a 3080 probably for 2-3 years.
I paid retail for both my series x and PS5, they are both worth retail prices. They are not worth paying scalpers and buying a tv like the lg is worth it especially for what the are offering. It's fine if some won't but it's not a bad deal for them
Maybe some people make enough money that their time is more valuable
why can't some of you see that
why can't some of you see that
pointing out the existence of rich people isn't really much of an insight
who said they had to be rich?
why are you so butthurt that people can spend money how they choose?
Agreed 100% it is the only thing that keeps this shit going is that people pay these prices for it. Never buy anything from scalpers and if you are buying stuff buy it at face value or lower if used.
"True" price? U mean price impatient ppl are willing to pay for products that will be restocked in a few months smh
Yeah if you got the dough then who are we to tell you how to spend it?
dude what? lmao
I paid MSRP for a PS5, I'm not butthurt at all. Yes, rich people can afford to pay outrageous markups, anyone else is better off waiting a couple months. These products will be readily available very soon.
If you are rich, go for it.
If I was rich, I don't think i would pay that markup though, just out of spite and on principal, as I know more were coming , haha. It's not like a rare out of circulation transformer or anything.
If I was rich, I don't think i would pay that markup though, just out of spite and on principal, as I know more were coming , haha. It's not like a rare out of circulation transformer or anything.
Gaming website I write for is without a PS5, and our only Xbox Series X has died and will return from warranty check [on another side of Europe] in ~ month and a half.
I'm chasing for a new GPU [3080 or 6800XT] for weeks now, and no luck. The only 3080 models that are for sale are 1100€+, and I'm not willing to pay that much.
I'm chasing for a new GPU [3080 or 6800XT] for weeks now, and no luck. The only 3080 models that are for sale are 1100€+, and I'm not willing to pay that much.
Agreed. None of these items are rare collectables and are still being produced.
There is an account on eBay that has sold over 570 of these at $999 and still has hundreds left to sell presumably.
That is already a net gain of $285,000. Unreal. The sad thing most of these big scalpers are probably already loaded with cash, because a simpleton like most of us could never afford the initial purchases to fund such an operation.
The rich just getting richer. Yay capitalism.
That is already a net gain of $285,000. Unreal. The sad thing most of these big scalpers are probably already loaded with cash, because a simpleton like most of us could never afford the initial purchases to fund such an operation.
The rich just getting richer. Yay capitalism.
I'd rather these companies put the systems on an auction site themselves and have all proceeds above MSRP go to a legit charity. I'd rather sick kids or starving people get these markup profits than scalpers.
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The 3090 is. The rest are pretty decent, although the consoles are still a better value due to MS and Sony eating a loss.
I can almost understand if it's just some dude with a single console that got lucky and needs the extra money. Shit I'm tempted to sell mine at these going prices (I'm not, selling to a friend at cost). Could really help me out as I'm not exactly rolling in cash. An extra $500 could really help out most households in the US. But these guys who are just sitting on dozens or even hundreds of these consoles are just scum.
The PS2 was $299 and was selling for near $1000 on eBay at launch. This is nothing new. People have always been impatient. Except now there's a global pandemic greatly affecting production and supply. If most units weren't currently being put up online and instead were sent to stores, the aftermarket price would be significantly higher.
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Listen brother, i get that you probably feel like ass due to all the alley dicksucking you've had to do to get your hands on enough cash to splurge away on a scalper ps5, but you don't have to bring it out on us. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
EDIT: Pre-building an argument for the inevitable homophobia warning/ban: I too, enjoy dicksucking.
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Lol that's not the kind of language we need here parley user
Disagree, a 5700XT scaled linearly to XS level is around the 3600Ti (non RT), a gpu that already costs 80% of the whole console.
The up to date AMD 8 core cpu officially costs another 90% XS, the closer cheapest 8 core Zen 2 60%.
The official price you have to pay to reach XS level is absurd.
Like I said, AMD and Nvidia aren't in the business of subsidizing hardware to sell software. So you can only compare the GPU releases to other PC hardware. Consoles have their own set of tradeoffs.
