I know people want to implicitly shit on this thing because they don’t personally want one, and I guess they don’t want other people to enjoy them, but come on, this is silly. You know none of that. You just wish it was that.
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ollie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
low demand low supply
echo64@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I don’t know if that’s a fair criticism. I think I first saw something about this thing yesterday. Not much of a marketing push. I had to look it up to see what the heck it is. It seems to have a very specific and narrow use case. I’m sure it’s a nice option for people with that need and works well enough, but it’s not exactly something the masses are clamoring for. There’s similar tech out there and they are sort of niche products. I don’t expect this thing to be selling like hotcakes.
TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I pre-ordered mine back in September. Those of us who game from multiple rooms in their house this thing is amazing. Or those who have to share a TV with people who don’t use the PS5 connected to it.
money_loo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Naw their criticisms are extremely fair.
When this thing was first announced it was met with mostly people all over going “what’s the point of this thing, nobody is going to buy such a useless thing when they can just play on their phone or some adapter” etc.
Then when the pre-orders where announced to be selling out, it didn’t shift to “people want this thing”, they just pivoted to “they are just lying to hype it up”
And now that it’s sold out everywhere, they have no choice but to either admit it was wanted and they were wrong, or just keep going with the idea that, no, it’s everyone else that is wrong.
Centillionaire@kbin.social 7 months ago
Selling out doesn’t mean anything. Let’s see some real sales figures.
Centillionaire@kbin.social 7 months ago
Less than 10% of PS5 owners buy this. It is a screen with a controller that can only be used to play your PS5 with when you are at home for $199.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 7 months ago
Others have said it already, but it’s the best way to describe it. It’s literally just a screen with a controller attached. You can only use it for remote play on a PlayStation console at home. It doesn’t offer cloud gaming and it doesn’t allow you to even connect to WiFi networks that require you to sign on in a browser before gaining access to the Internet because the thing doesn’t even have a browser included in the software. The only common use case I could see for this thing is if you’re you going to a friend’s house as a teen and want to play online games while in person.
Even then, as a parent I would much rather just spend the extra money on a steamdeck or other handheld that has compute and actual software. This is a ripe $300 turd that hardcore PlayStation fans and overzealous scalpers are buying.
echo64@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The use case is that you live with other people and other people want to use the TV that the ps5 is connected to, and you want to play ps5, and you aren’t a jerk who hogs the TV all the time.
It’s okay, demonstrably people want this, even if you’re mad about it.
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 7 months ago
I’m mad that people are being sunk by consumerism. The cost of living is sky high right now and people are wasting their money on products that don’t make a whole lot of sense. Theres similar products that work much better for just a little bit more. Hell, buy a used tablet. At least that has processing like I mentioned. You can remote play through the tablet for a fraction of the cost.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It’s $199, the same price as the Premium DualSense Edge controller.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s kind of ridiculous for a controller. Unless the entire casing is metal or something, that doesn’t seem worth it imo.
AnonTwo@kbin.social 7 months ago
That's not a reddit thing though. People make one-offish comments everywhere. Maybe not in your inner circle specifically but in general i've seen a lot of forums and chat rooms growing up that are like that.
echo64@lemmy.world 7 months ago
sure, it was better here about it until recently, the quality of the community posts here has dropped dramatically in the past month
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 7 months ago
I’d say low supply but higher than expected demand. If it were low demand, people won’t be having a problem getting one.
Yamayo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Artificial scarcity is a thing.
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 7 months ago
Yeah, but Sony isn’t reaping the rewards for it, scalpers are. Artificial scarcity would make sense if Sony were jacking up their prices, but they’re not the ones doing that.
derpgon@programming.dev 7 months ago
Uhh, 200$ for a piece of junk sounds a lot like a lot to me, and enough to be considered “jacked”.