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1 hour ago, teddymeow said:

 

Quite right, clarified post.

 

And you're right. It's an absolute cluster fuck! Even more ridiculous than 505 Games and Control.

 

No - it's clear what your options are at the point they start readvertising their nextgen/standard gen options. Not three weeks after a load of people have bought a season pass for their alan wake content: so it's ridiculous, but it's not as ridiculous as 505 games.

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37 minutes ago, teddymeow said:

UbiSoft are also removing physical discs from Xbox collector's editions and replacing them with DL codes which is extra fun for some people.

 

By fun I of course mean hassle.

 

Speaking of that. I bought a boxed copy of Wolfenstein on the Switch via eBay. It wasn't until I opened up the box that I saw there was no physical game inside only a download code. Great... 28Gb.

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52 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

 

What is the extra variable?


Current Gen or Next Gen.

 

Edit:  Just to explain what I mean, I can see in my head a massive matrix of all the different versions of Ass Creed Valhalla, with all the different variables of pre-order tat, statues, XP bonuses, Male/female cover art etc, and now add into that the ability to have physical/digital editions with or without next-gen upgrades.  The mind boggles, or maybe it's just me.

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In the US Sony have an online store, http://direct.playstation.com, which sells consoles and things directly. So they'll have an allocation like every other store, and I guess they've decided to do something other than first-come, first-served because they have access to everyone's play histories etc. I expect you'll be able to buy it elsewhere by a normal route in the US, and they don't seem to have an equivalent in the UK.

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13 minutes ago, Dirty Harry Potter said:

If Sony do a lottery in the UK (its going to piss me off but...) its a very clever marketing spin for Sony not having very many consoles at launch.

 

it will be the gaming equivalent of a golden ticket and will create a awful lot of buzz leading up to Christmas and beyond.


doesn’t stack up with the 10 million consoles rumour, and is particularly dodgy with the fact they’ve not quoted the price yet.

other than that, I agree that it discourages scalpers a bit (but it’s also marketing an object with an unknown but probably high price to people during a recession on the promise of scarcity: feels wrong to me).

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I suppose the upshot of all this is that if PlayStation Direct is getting its preorders set up, other online stores will be getting briefed about their expected allocation too.

 

I figure we’ll have a launch announcement, going straight in to pre-orders (Apple style), before the end of September.

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4 minutes ago, HarryBizzle said:

Don’t most, if not all, retailers limit these things to one or two per person these days, anyway? I don’t see what a lottery adds other than encouraging the idea of scarcity. 


It’s not a lottery, they’re giving invitations to people based on their console usage and “interests” (presumably whether they play the kind of games available at launch).

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5 minutes ago, HarryBizzle said:

Don’t most, if not all, retailers limit these things to one or two per person these days, anyway? I don’t see what a lottery adds other than encouraging the idea of scarcity. 


It takes away the must-be-at- the-computer-frantically-hitting-refresh. That’s a good thing.

Tying it to existing active PSN accounts that are actually active takes away the scalper creates twenty fake addresses and orders. It sucks a bit if their criteria for active is “spends $500/quarter on fortnite tat”, but let’s assume it’s “plays on their PlayStation once a month and has done for the last year”.  Carefully done, that’s also a good thing.

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I think it could be good if done well, given the normal console launch antics where thousands of units are sold via eBay/Facebook etc. at well over asking price, often listed well before the official release date has even rolled round. Plus all the machines that suddenly appear in CEX, and are again sold at over retail price due to scarcity.

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18 minutes ago, Mr. Gerbik said:

Surely, SURELY, if they announce a date and preorders tonight, they'll also reveal the price?

 

Or will Sony simply say, the price will be a launch day surprise? :D

 

I really hope so. They can’t really be expecting people to preorder without a price... can they?

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30 minutes ago, wretcherd said:

Imagine if it were like trying to get tickets for a gig, sitting on the website at 8.59am hovering over the buy button, clicking as soon as it appears, and 3 minutes later you see a "sold out" message.


This is more like fan club presale.

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I don’t think credit card companies like it when you put a hold on the card for $Lets’s Wait and See.

 

Even if PlayStation Direct were to take pre-orders without a price I doubt Amazon will omit the cost when they’re taking pre-orders at the exact same time.

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13 minutes ago, PeteBrant said:

How can you preorder without a price? Think about the practicalities of what you’re saying . 

Yeah, that’s what I’m saying, but as Gerbik says, I think they’ll sell out regardless. Plus, this is Sony we’re talking about.

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