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Penny Arcade - Comic - Conditional
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Conditional
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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I think they delayed me when on a review I put the tagline "Fingerhut- When that guy on the corner won't even open his trunk when you walk by"
Today I learned that Fingerhut transitioned from mail order catalog to online retailer starting 25 years ago.
Also I would never pay for than retail for a console.(Which is why I don't have one)
It does seem like with the distribution of consoles as it is, this is the most likely scenario.
Human psychology. The rarer something is, the more valuable it "must" be.
We've been stuck inside for a year and we're bored as fuck and we want some new toys dambit
Those other four would have went to scalpers. You actually made the problem less bad.
It is annoying that video cards are in the same boat though, and they're priced far higher yet still face the same issue. I'm not paying scalper prices, ever. I am glad I bought a GTX 1080 years ago and didn't go with a 1070 or 1060, or else I'm sure I'd be clamoring more for a new GPU. I remember even getting my 1080 years ago there was a shortage and people were reselling around $1k.
I managed to get a 3060 Ti, but only because it was part of an built system that work bought (I do VR programming). I had a headache-inducing argument with a Free Market Is Always Right coworker about all this modern bot-driven scalping. Even if I granted him the argument that manufacturers should have priced their video cards higher, it doesn't make as much sense for things like the Quest 2 or PS5. Those are subsidized on purpose to get a longer-tail profit from the games (or harvesting your soul, in the case of the Quest).
I'm not sure why the desperation, but as someone who did manage to get one (paying only the slight markup of a Gamestop bundle with a shitty game attached) it is genuinely a delightful console. Demon's Souls Remastered and Astro's Playroom are both wonderful, and many games have upgrade patches that genuinely show off the power of the new console. And even for games that don't have a PS5 upgrade patch, they still play much better with the PS5's more powerful CPU, GPU, and SSD reducing pop in and frame rate drops. Especially as someone who was using a base model PS4, it's a significant bump in power.
Really hate that the scalpers fucked over people at launch, it's a wonderful console that deserves to be experienced by people who will enjoy it.
I'd been rolling with a launch PS4 since it came out, and I wanted to take advantage of my shiny new 4k TV and play with the new controller
Also the backwards compatibility has meant that I still have a large library to play, only with super fast loading, so it was a better decision than buying the PS4 at launch; I could offload my PS4 to a friend, who has paid me back by buying my first few next-gen games
All I'm saying is that when properly buried, wooden coffins hold up pretty well.
You want coffins? I got coffins. I’m cutting me own throat here. Half price.
Did you at least make a smug video bragging about how you had 5 PS5s? I'd think it would have been a waste not to.
I don't know if that's wise; that's kidnapping level money.
You know that's a reference right?
I actually didn't realize that there were sequels to the PS3 one.