spronk
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Yeah this is bullshit. The say they going to give plenty of a heads up for pre orders. The night they do the show and tweet afterwards that it's going to be the next day, the floodgates open while I'm out to dinner for my son's birthday. And shit is sold out within hours. And you see god knows how many on ebay already. Fuck the scalpers they ruin everything. And fuck Sony for shitting the bed on all of this. I would love to not have to deal with this bullshit anymore and just go PC, but I can't leave my adult nephew who is my main gaming buddy behind. And I know nothing about gaming PC components to build a decent "beginner" rig as I'm all business when it comes to computers and only deal with enterprise stock windows machines for office and google.
I miss the old days where you went to GameStop and put 50 bucks down and filled out a paper. And I also wish Sony would just do the initial pre orders through their site. One per PSN ID, but hey that'd kill hype so fuck you too Tickle Me Elmo for starting all this horseshit.
Oh and Fuck Sony.
Yeah I'm salty.
Why do you hate capitalism?Fuck the scalpers they ruin everything.
i think that was a list to buy from sony directNot really sure what was Sony's point of saying they'd let people know when Pre-Orders are happening well in advanced and just shit all over the place. What a load of crap.
if you can navigate it selling consoles on offerup, mercari, craigslist, etc is the best option. In most areas they are still selling for $300-400 as scarcity, especially for xboxes, is high.
i'm in the same boat, honestly i'm probably just gonna donate my old consoles to xmas toy drives and move to a series X and ps5. i don't like going to stores now unless I absolutely have to, and sitting around in a gamestop for 30 mins while they check a console and breath in the same covid air is not worth $200 to me. i don't see any good trade promos coming, $200 is the max right now and thats a joke. Demand far outstrips supplies on ps5 so no real need for Sony to pump up demand.
also i completely forgot Godfall was a launch title, they didn't mention this shit AT ALL. game must be trash tier
You definitely lucked out there. My Gamestop is in the ass end of nowhere and they had a sign in the window this morning saying don't bother starting a line because they sold out everything they had allocated in like 5 minutes last night before closing. I still have my Walmart preorder, so at least I'll get one, but not being able to do a trade in for it is annoying. Not looking forward to trying to sell off my Pro on Craigslist or whatever, and I doubt Amazon will still be offering 200+ come November 12.Back from Gamestop. Managed to get a preorder (of the disc drive version thankfully, hooray for game resale value) plus Spider-Man and Demon's Souls. They ran out of preorders within 3 minutes of opening, of course, which is why I waited in line for a couple hours. Getting one online just wasn't working. Glad that's over, to say the least.
Ah so I'd have to bring one console in before the 12th, then the second one I could just bring with me on release day. I guess that would work.yeah 2 trades should work fine do it in 2 seperate days / trades. take console 1 day 1 and trade towards an X or PS5 (latter may be impossible now unless you already have it preordered), put down like $50 on the new console and put the rest on a gift card. take second console day 2 and trade it in, adding another $50 towards your console pre order. it'll auto bump up to $200 the trade value. It won't bump two consoles on the same transaction, which is why doing it over 2 days is simplest, just remember to add a little towards the preorder (like layaway) every time.
Games are fucking $70?! The last game I bought for that much was Secret of Mana for the SNES!