This morning, a brand new PS5 supplement dropped, courtesy of Ant Online. But even if PlayStation fans were able to beat the bots and beat the website troubles, and buy the console, they had to pay $ 830 for the new Sony machine. Like GameStop, Ant Online’s new stock was limited to bundles, or more specifically, a single bundle, with two DualSense controllers, a PlayStation Camera, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Demon’s Soulsand a PlayStation Plus subscription. $ 830 for all of this isn’t a bad deal, but it’s more than double the price of the console’s all-digital model and $ 330 more than the standard version.
It doesn’t say why Ant Online limits stock to an expensive bundle, but there are a few obvious reasons that need little clarification. Firstly, Ant Online earns more money with this. It could sell the console, or it could use the excessive demand for the console to sell other products as well, and that’s what it does with this bundle.
The second reason is that bundles are a kind of repellent for scalpers. Buying a bundle costs the profit of a lazy scalper, and even the most efficient scalper will have to put in extra legwork to account for the extra products that are not only harder to sell, but also can’t be sold for a profit.
Finally, bundles lower demand, which in turn leads to less server traffic, and this of course leads to fewer website issues.
There are many reasons for limiting PS5 inventory to bundles in 2021, and many retailers are starting to do so. However, it is also an unpopular practice.
Unfortunately, the PS5’s stock situation is not going to improve anytime soon. In fact, it may not get any better this year.
I. Could go crazy, but I’d rather spend on my family pic.twitter.com/8S0cYrav33
– John Marston (M8) (@sdsptsfan) April 15, 2021
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