Famitsu sales: Week 42, 2021 - (11th Oct - 17th Oct)

[Zippy6]

Kakadu18 said:

Zippy6 said:

This is nonsensical. Scalpers buy high-demand products because they know people are desperate to get them and willing to pay above RRP. Suggesting that if scalpers didn't buy them the PS5 sales would be less and would be readily in-stock is illogical. If that were true then the scalpers would be getting more PS5's then they can sell and they would have stopped buying. It makes zero sense.

Scalping only exists for products that would actually sell-out if there was no scalping.

In Japan the sales may have been lower without scalping. Many PS5s are being bought in Japan and shipped into other countries, where demand is higher.

I think ~30-40% of the PS5s sold in Japan are scalped.

It doesn't really matter if the consoles sell in Japan or are shipped elsewhere, regardless the demand is still there. If there isn't sufficient stock in one country and people want to import they will whether that's at RRP or from scalpers. Scalpers can't scalp unless what they are scalping would sell anyway.

I don't know if there's any evidence that a large amount of consoles are being bought in Japan and exported but I'm guessing that 30-40% figure is out of thin air.