It reminds me of one of the best things GW Bush said, about how we too often judge others by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.
As much as I dislike Bush, he has a point. Even though him and his administration screwed up the economy. Tough at least he put in some effort compared to Trump. Please save any other political topics for the current events forum please.
A warning of what? Unless there's something uncovered here, it's literally just Sony rewarding dedicated fans with the option to buy a PS5 that will be in limited supply. The PlayStation brand has been around for 25 years now, you should know Sony by now. There's a lot more skeletons in other gaming companies' closets than Sony. And that's not even just jabs at Microsoft and Nintendo, check out what just recently happened with MSI on the PC gaming side. Even if this is worst case scenario and this is Sony getting PS5s out to influencers, soooooooo what? Isn't that what every company does nowadays to like every new product released? And if this was just a way to get PS5s out to influencers, why does Sony need create some fake preorder "contest" to do it? It's a conspiracy theory that doesn't make any sense.
I reserve the right to quip about how the Japanese game lineup for the PS5 will be mediocre at best.
Do what you wish. I won't be obsessed, but I will still take a small eye on it.
Then please make a thread for it? This is about Sony's arrogance and and trying to say who's "whorthy" like the console is Thor's fucking hammer. I'm serious that I will not ask a third time. So if you want to talk about crap like that, make another thread.
Let me put it a different way: What's even worth keeping an eye on about it? We aren't talking about general purchase limitations here, we're not talking about under the table deals, we aren't talking about general exclusivity. We're talking about a first wave of invitations to pre-order being limited in scope and, by all appearances, presumably targeted at dedicated users who would be more likely to be interested in such invites.
I'm afraid I just can't give it to you. We live in a world where when something that people think will be in demand comes out and within less than a few minutes all the preorders are snapped up by bots for people to sell on ebay and such, where if you really want one you will have to pay exorbitant prices or wait till the scalpers get tired of holding onto stock while waiting for the company to manufacture more to meet inflated demand. I mean this sucks for new users but this is a way to vet buyers to limit the impact of botters just snapping up preorders. I mean they don't even have to wait for the item to come out, they can just put the preorder up for sale and make money. As weird as how they are doing this, this is a decent method to counter act that.
At the risk of sounding like an ass, I'm not here for your approval nor do I give a shit in this case. I like you and respect you, but that's not why I made this topic. I do concede to you, @Asita, @Dirty Hipsters, and @hanselthecaretaker other points to it an extent about the scalpers and stuff. That still doesn't change the fact that Sony's
Not much, but worse in new ways. Thank you very much. Had Sony at least revealed the price point earlier on (instead of being hesitant and doing some arbitrary waiting game with the competition), I would give them some leeway. But no, they had to present their cake and then stick their dick in it.
We pretty much know the price point will be at $400-$600 and almost certainly won't be as low as $400, so probably $500-$600. Why is it any difference when the price is announced? You either have the income to be able to afford a new system or you don't. When you put the cost of other hobbies into perspective, video gaming is a really cheap hobby to have. Hell, a lot of people have phones that retail for console prices and above (and they replace them far more often than Sony or Microsoft expects you to replace your consoles). And, Nvidia just released info on their new video cards and the cheapest one is $500. I couldn't care less if Sony and Microsoft literally wait till release day to reveal the price, it's a game they're playing with each other and really has nothing to do with me.
because they're acting like incompetent dick bags that think they know what they're doing.
I have similar mindset (which I mentioned in an earlier post), but doesn't mean I will be quiet about calling out bullshit.
Sorry about that. that was a mess up on Google speak and I didn't check. Grammatical error. I meant to say making pre-orders for a console that has not been priced yet. My bad and sorry for that mistake there. Did not mean to confuse everyone
I don't see what the connection is between the console not being priced and you being upset that Sony is choosing who gets to preorder the console.
Believe whatever you want, don't care. Already said my piece. You either get it or you don't.
