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Azzanation on 26 November 2020
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DonFerrari said:
Azzanation said:

We wont know because of this. Its very odd that the moment the Xbox, PS5 and NVIDIA 30 Series were up for Pre-order, they instantly sold out. That's because the systems didn't actually sell out, they were sold to bots which the scalpers go resell at a higher price. Sure, technically the stores have been cleared of stock which is technically selling out, but moving stock from one retailer to another retailer (Scalper) isn't exactly telling us the true story with this new gen.

The article i linked to BlaLod is just one scalper who brought over 3500 PS5s by using a bot generating system to clean out stores in the UK to just resell back to the public.

Instead of blindly praising these events, we should be questioning. These consoles aren't really sold out, you can easily find one on Ebay or Amazon for more than twice the price brand new. 

Yes we can be sure. It would have sold out anyway even with no scalpers. Again if people weren't willing to flock up to buy the console for 500 how would scalpers be able to sell them for 1000 or 1500? Please explain it.

And on your need to not invent stories but just report the news so people don't celebrate the launch (why shouldn't they?) did you do the same on the Xbox launch thread?

Its the scalpers who cleaned out the shops with the botting systems on pre-orders. The stores have already made their sales to these scalpers, which isn't to actual customers so their is a fair amount of systems sitting in peoples basements waiting on those unlucky buyers. If you feel the need to praise, than go for it, as for me, i am far from gullible to celebrate something i see as a major issue in. Again its quite odd that both the PS5 and XSX sold out super fast as well as those $1000 GPUs from Nvidia.. all in the same year. Again don't hate the messenger, no one wanted to bring it up in here so i through i will. People celebrate figures that aren't exactly morally true while the world burns behind them. So be it. Ill prefer to look into why all these high tech entertainment is selling out super faster than actual human reactions can order in on.

The same concept applies for Xbox as well. I haven't praised Xbox for their launch either. Id expect the next Nintendo system to also sell out super fast as these bots will try to clean out pre-order stock just like they did with the PS5 and XSX.