Only a fucking idiot would buy a PS5 from a scalper

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lemme tell you a story..

about 5 years ago i watched some fake timetraveler videos on yt just for the fun of it and there was one guy who said there wont be a ps6 i laughed my ass off but nowadays i kept thinking maybe he is somewhat right (not that he actual is a timetraveller but more or less it was a lucky guess) just look at the state of sony and their recent moves (no exclusivity any more,more focus on pc and mobile,ps5 release and ongoing chip shortage, a big chunk of ps5 just sitting in some scalpers basement wich dont generate money via game sells and the possibility that remoteplay services take over)
 

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Launch units are most likely to contain hardware issues...
Exploitable hardware issues :creep:

The DS was hacked with a toothpick.
The Wii was hacked with an SD card.
Launch models are more likely to get hacked and stay hacked.
Later models and revisions get patched up tight.
Launch models are loose :creep:
 

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Exploitable hardware issues :creep:

The DS was hacked with a toothpick.
The Wii was hacked with an SD card.
Launch models are more likely to get hacked and stay hacked.
Later models and revisions get patched up tight.
Launch models are loose :creep:
No the wii was hacked with tweezers aka Team Tweezers
 
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Whe scalpers buy up all the stock they create the demand themselves...stop defending scalpers bc ur guilty of it ..when millions of kids wont have a console bc of the greed of others...its bad...if i buy out a stores whole stock whats left for others? Im literally creating a situation where the item is rarer than it has to be...thats the equivalent of you going to get ice cream with ur family...and someone before u buys all the ice cream up and turns to u and says ill sell it to u for 7 times the amount...its literally the same...dont say it doesnt harm anybody ..it harms EVERYBODY..this isnt about the logic...this is about greed and a lack of care...to make shit sold out is creating a problem...dont try to justify scalping...its cringe and any argument against it is stupid
Scalpers exist because enough of the public is stupid/desperate and will pay the prices.
As far as congress. Yeah they do like to contemplate stamping all over the free market in an attempt to sooth feelings of people.


lemme tell you a story..

about 5 years ago i watched some fake timetraveler videos on yt just for the fun of it and there was one guy who said there wont be a ps6 i laughed my ass off but nowadays i kept thinking maybe he is somewhat right (not that he actual is a timetraveller but more or less it was a lucky guess) just look at the state of sony and their recent moves (no exclusivity any more,more focus on pc and mobile,ps5 release and ongoing chip shortage, a big chunk of ps5 just sitting in some scalpers basement wich dont generate money via game sells and the possibility that remoteplay services take over)
I would say PS6 less likely not by that, not by them going pop (their credit rating did drop the other year which might have been the basis for that, though such things tend to get by on radical claims a la clickbait) but by the market itself changing out from under things.
 

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Exploitable hardware issues :creep:

The DS was hacked with a toothpick.
The Wii was hacked with an SD card.
Launch models are more likely to get hacked and stay hacked.
Later models and revisions get patched up tight.
Launch models are loose :creep:
and lets not forget how the switch was hacked with... two pieces of metal
(yes yes before anyone says it i know the first exploit was a browser exploit but that was sold to nintendo through their hackerone thing)
 
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