Will developers optimize games for it to get the best battery life and quality of the experience.Į. The mass market does not like to tinker, especially on a handheld.ĭ. As with many PC games, there will be issues for games that you will need to tinker with. You can run Windows on it, but in the mass market, most people will not know how or want to do that.Ĭ. This automatically eliminates a huge number of games.ī. It seems to be somewhat of a niche product.Ī. Sony may have won big with the PS5 but most gamers lost.I am not sure it will be too tough to get. On one hand, Sony and retailers still make the sale on the item regardless of who purchases it but when someone can purchase an entire stock using a bot program without issue. Even then scalpers attempted to capitalize on the item but due to eBay's policies about users needing to ship the product within a week of the listing and no word on when the item will be shipped force eBay to take down the listings. Steam only allowed those with a Steam account older than a month to buy one, which made it harder to resllers. If that wasn't enough Valve's Steam Deck was also suffering the same issue. Recently Metroid Dread Special Editions and amiibos have been pre-purchased on mass and being resold on eBay for 3x the asking price. Many retailers have been doing little to address the issue, with scalping becoming more problematic. Many gamers went online to vent their frustration with the issue. Now Sony has confirmed the console has reached 10 million sales. Along with the Xbox Series X, the consoles have been purchased by scalpers in mass quantity and resold at unreasonable prices. Let's face it, the PS5 has been one of the most difficult things to get since its launch.

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