That only really makes more profit for the company though. It doesn't do anything about scalping. Scalpers will still buy those higher priced consoles and try to re-sell them at a significant mark-up. They'll either make a big profit still, or end up with a bunch of consoles they can't sell, the exact same outcome that happens already.
If you actually want to do something about scalping then offer the first shipments, or maybe first 2/3, exclusively to people that have the most recorded hours on that family of consoles over the last year or something. So if you have 200k PS6s to sell send an email offer to the people who played PS5 the most over the last year and offer them the first option on them, if they say no go to the next people and so on.
Although personally I don't see scalping as an issue anyway. Let it happen. I'm patient so it doesn't affect me anyway. Trying to wean society away from the "must have shiny new thing right NOW!" mindset would probably be a good thing too.
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