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PlayStation Portal has sold out two days after launch | Listings with inflated prices have started to appear online
- Thread starter Thick Thighs Save Lives
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demigod
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Why not just buy it from Best Buy? It’s been going in and out of stock. Hell I had to return the Best Buy one because Fedex did not see my note on my door. I kept the one from Target.
MidGenRefresh
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Now that I think about it, more entrepreneur types would sell it with profit instead of returning it. There's clearly an initial demand for that thing.
Bojanglez
The Amiga Brotherhood
Allow priority sales window for people with highest PS Stars ratings
PropellerEar
Member
You know what to do... order 100 for starters, do what you preach....
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Seems like this fall my ignore list has tripled.
MidGenRefresh
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Too much work for too little profit for my liking.
What I was saying is: people who purchased it and it wasn't what they expected and/or it didn't work well on their home WiFi, instead of returning it, can sell it for profit.
FearlessBelgian
Member
It's a well-known marketing technique for tempting the weak-minded: in the first wave, you offer very little stock, then a few weeks later you let the floodgates open.
It's a technique for creating demand and creating a need among certain people.
It's a technique for creating demand and creating a need among certain people.
PaintTinJr
Member
Agreed and with it being a soft launch followed by stock sparsity and scalping the road to iron out the experience problems for the non-enthusiast gamer is probably going to be at least 9-12months, giving the device a chance to be good at direct-to-ps5, LAN and WAN roaming to PS5 and LAN and WAN roaming to Cloud service, when it comes.
If the Portal's turn-key experience for direct-play and async use reaches wiiu tablet experience, I expect we will see the device as a pack-in with the PS5 super slim at the end of the gen, with a view to make it a default PS6 pad at the start of next-gen.
THE DUCK
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It's an interesting proposition as a pack in, would help.them gain another advantage. However cost of that screen would motivate them against it. Would be cool though if you are right. But please full size thumbsticks......
TrebleShot
Member
Its selling out, everywhere.
I had a second unit I got just in case my direct order messed up, I was going to return it but then saw how much they were going for on ebay and sold it there for £130 profit.
So even If people don't want them, they would be mental to return it, sell it for profit, those return % would be barely worth mentioning.
Also a side note, I had three people message me with direct offers and stories about why they want one, one was willing to drive a couple hundred miles to collect it.
This thing is selling like hot cakes, look at the numbers vs xbx as well.
The narrative that no one wanted this and its a niche product is woefully wrong and misguided.
I essentially paid £70 for mine.
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MidGenRefresh
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PaintTinJr
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I thought there were rumours that they considered doing a dualsense with a screen as a pack-in for the PS5, already.
Given the base selling price of a dualsense being reasonably high, now I suspect it will just be an issue of volume manufacturing to bring the device in at a profit with that screen. From memory even trying to buy a replacement 11" 1080p touchscreen OLED panel from Alibaba, etc suppliers for my Vaio ultrabook was only $20-30, so a Sony made LCD probably would add less than half of that price to a BoM IMO once making more than 10-20m
Ar¢tos
Member
I know, just telling you why some people are shitting on it (those and the small amount of hardcore Xbox fans that must trash anything Sony related, regardless of what it is).
PropellerEar
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Why are people keep spreading FUD about the Portal. I don't get it, are you doing for the lulz or..?
Esppiral
Member
I'll buy one when it is 30€ just like the PlayStation classic.
At the actual price this is the biggest scam in gaming history
MidGenRefresh
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Where pathetic fanboys see FUD, normal people see civil discussion. My post was completely reasonable but of course it was met with the most predicable reaction.
It's sold out: great news. It will be interesting to see if they can keep up with the demand and what this demand will be past the initial craze. It will also be interesting to see if a lot of people are returning it, just like there were some reports about ROG Ally being returned at a very high rate.
Nothing FUD about it.
"There's probably a lot of people that purchased it without even knowing exactly what it is"
Nothing FUD about it you say?
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
What sort of reaction where you expecting when you entered the thread and started typing your post?
And what is pathetic is you calling out others 'pathetic fanboys' while coming in this thread and posting FUD like this.
"There's probably a lot of people that purchased it without even knowing exactly what it is"
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MidGenRefresh
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I'm on this forum almost daily and I'd say I try to keep up with 'gaming news' but even I didn't exactly know what Portal is and isn't capable of and what even are the benefits of using it over other streaming solutions. I had to ask in the review thread.
I was expecting this exact reaction because forum is still filled with pathetic fanboys from either team, despite mods doing God's work and banning them. You can't have a normal discussion because everything is treated like a console war. Very, very sad.
TVexperto
Member
jup greedy sony is back and im not supporting them
FingerBang
Member
I don't like the Portal, but you're delusional if you think it will ever go for a similar price. Regardless of how useless it is, there's no way they can sell it for less than 149. If it just was a DualSense + a screen you'd already be 3 times the price and it has more than that.
Seriously asking, how's this greedy Sony? This is not a required accessory, you don't have to buy it. You can still get a PS5 for $399. No subscription was added to make you play your console.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
So people calling you out for spreading FUD are now also console warring. I just can't keep up, mate.
Ar¢tos
Member
You think people are going to buy it just because it's called Playstation something without doing any minimal research?
If only there was some sort of official website describing what the device does and a FAQ...
MidGenRefresh
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100%. There will be people buying it without doing enough or any research into the device and or their own home network. But no, let’s not even mention that because it’s somehow FUD! Meanwhile every other ad on my local marketplace is listed as opened for testing but as new. I wonder why…
Anyway, enough from me. I wish you all a nice day.
Ar¢tos
Member
Such a double standard.
Many people on GAF told me that potential Xbox Series X buyers would never make confusion with Xbox One X because people know what they want to buy, so it wasn't a bad naming choice, but for Playstation Portal they are so damn stupid they'll buy it without even knowing what it is.
I guess Playstation users are really REALLY stupid.
PropellerEar
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MidGenRefresh
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Xbox naming is dog shit and extremely confusing for potential buyers. It’s almost as bad as Wii / Wii U branding. Where’s the double standard? I told you, forum is filled with fanboys from both camps. Luckily Xbox console is not selling too hot so there’s less of them.
nosoynadie22
Member
I remember that there was a report that said that people were flocking to sell their PS5 to be able to buy an XSeX in anticipation of the launch of Starfield, what would have happened with that?
Snake29
Banned
Hope you will find a support group to help you handle all this stress..
Well we know ResetEra is the support group and Xbox refugee camp.
midasmulligan
Member
Fantastic device, wasn’t expecting much given my poor experience with remote play. Have tried a bunch of different titles, no issues jump out. Feels like a high quality portable device. Wouldn’t put it in the same category as remote play, they just feel like different experiences altogether imo
Tams
Member
The Wii U GamePad was great, but lol wot?!
This is, apart from the lack of a stylus, much better than the GamePad. Though I've not looked into if there's a noticeable difference between connecting through a local router like the Portal and directly like the Wii U. Both use Wi-Fi, but the Portal has much newer Wi-Fi.
Mibu no ookami
Banned
Literally anything is better than what they're doing now.
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
Tomorrow will be the big test for me. I'm working overnight about 600 miles away from my PS5.
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Shifty1897
Member
I do think there is a small tech-savvy barrier to entry on this thing. When everything is set up correctly, it's incredible, but I doubt some kid who gets one for Christmas is going to be happy with it unless he or his dad know how to log into the router.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
100% right. I hate our culture these days. The internet has made us dumber.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
I've been checking Best Buy daily but it's been sold out every time I look. Best Buy is my preferred store.
demigod
Member
I turned on twitter notifications for wario64 and thats how i got mine.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Sadly you have to check all the time as I have seen them in stock even today for a brief moment and they are putting the returns online as well
Sometimes it says unavailable nearby which means some stores have them just not close enough to you
If anyone is near the Evansville Indiana Best Buy I am returning one at some point likely this weekend
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
In stock right now at BB
nosoynadie22
Member
"The portal is useless, if you are enjoying your Playstation Portal, you should know that you are an idiot."
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HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
And if anyone honestly has that opinion they are a pretty sad human
mansoor1980
Member
not surprised , Sony can make 80,000 bricks, and people would buy them
nosoynadie22
Member
"I hate (insert name "PS Portal" or literally anything) for literally no reason and I think you should think the same as me." Twitter is overpopulated with people like that, people who just want to spread negative feelings to others.
Shakka43
Member
Wii u gamepad's resolution was 480p. A lot less bandwidth to transfer and keep a smooth image.
