how's it going everyone this PlayStation 5 Pro Saga has been fascinating to cover seeing the insane online reaction not even insane probably rightfully so over the price point and uh more importantly than the price point the fact that and elements of the $500 console were stripped away from it such as a disc drive and such as uh the vertical stand not included either if you really want to pick up the PS5 Pro with the disc drive and the vertical stand it would have been like $800 however things have gotten even more interesting as the PlayStation 5 disc drive is now sold out yes it shot up to one of the top sellers on Amazon's website it was in stock for all of yesterday but now today it is out of stock at Amazon and Best Buy I believe as of the recording of this video GameStop still has it in stock Let me refresh the page right now it is still in stock at GameStop and it is still in stock at Target I believe and Walmart and I believe on uh the PlayStation direct website but uh if you have interest in getting it I probably would pick it up as soon as possible now I would have to think that this isn't the case of scalpers buying up the disc drive because if scalpers were buying up the disc drive in preparation for the PS5 Pro to come out wouldn't they be buying it out from all of these sites and not just the predominant sites that people do their General shopping on I feel like if you're buying Electronics Amazon and Best Buy are the two sites that most people go to are the in the case of Best Buy the retailer as well uh GameStop at third place but uh the other spots not as much um I do believe that this is a case of yes there might be some scalping going on maybe a little bit but I also think you guys it's people buying the disc drive because it's those people that are buying the PlayStation 5 Pro I no and I might be totally wrong about this I am not right about everything however I do feel like this online reaction I'm not saying it's the vocal minority I don't think it's the vocal minority at all actually what I am saying is even with that $700 price tag there are enough people that aren't the majority remember this isn't a console marketed for the majority uh there is that audience of people however that are so in inv into PlayStation they want the top-of-the-line console they want the most powerful console and they are going to spend their $700 on it and if there are enough people that are going to buy it it doesn't have to be the majority this is a premium console catered For the people with either disposable income or they are just you know absolutely invested into gaming and even if they don't have the most disposable income in the world they just have to have the latest and greatest uh as far as consoles are concerned and I do feel maybe it won't be an instant sellout part of me believes it is going to be an instant sellout just because it's I I would have to think that Sony and Playstation they know how many people are going to be uh at the range of picking this up this isn't designed to be their Premier console that's going to get promoted everywhere this is designed to be something that their hardest of Hardcore and those with disposable income are going to pick up and as long as there's enough people that are there that's why this is priced so highly that's why the disc drive isn't in stock it is to draw more and more money out of your I use the terminology whales I get that that's a insulting term uh that's why I've thrown myself in the whale category as well I'm not trying to insult people but that's the term that gets thrown around as far as people that Chuck money at some of these companies I get that that's usually uh to describe mobile games and gotcha games and things of that nature but the term Works uh because PlayStation's been doing this for a while uh with a lot of their content going up and up in price and while they haven't gone the route of doing insane in-game monetization which credit to them because they haven't gone the Ubisoft route like full uh Insanity as far as microtransactions fake Early Access and so on and so forth they are upping the price of their dual sense controller they are doing things like PS5 Pro not including the disc drive and honestly pushing people more and more into digital gaming and that is something to uh certainly look at as well when they are talking about not including a dis they absolutely want you to be buying their games digitally and games in general digitally because that locks you into their ecosystem even more you cannot sell your digital games maybe you can sell your PSN account I guess but you cannot sell your digital games and you're just locked into that ecosystem and then it becomes more of a battle within yourself to get to get out of that ecosystem because you've invested so much the more and more you invest it's like the cost sunk fallacy the more likely you are continue uh you're going to continue investing into it and this isn't for the general PlayStation audience I believe it's with the PS4 Pro it was only like 15% of the PlayStation uh user base was on the PS4 Pro versus the PS4 uh base console I believe that is going to be the case again with the PS5 maybe even lower maybe at 10% but if they're selling it at $700 and the profit margin is bigger on this console and they're pushing digital gaming on you uh they might deem it to be wor it to get that level of money out of that 10% audience or whatever percentage audience it is and again the majority of people are going to push back on it but as long as PlayStation scales it to a way where production is in line with the demand of the console and that 10% audience is still going to pick it up they're still going to make a ton of money on it like that's just how this is going to work yes they're going to get crapped on by the general audience and I absolutely think PlayStation should look at that what they are doing these days we talked about the ps+ extra catalog update that atrocious catalog but I feel like they've looked at the fact that they have no competition they can do whatever they want they can release garbage live service games they can have years without bringing out any big budget titles that's just what uh the the area that PlayStation's in this has been a horrendous generation in my humble opinion for PlayStation as a brand in its entirety and it just sucks because this would have been a good year for Xbox to check them and come back much like PlayStation did in 201 13 when Xbox tried to push always online but I just don't think that's going to happen Xbox has kind of a different game plan as far as how they're going to tackle it but PlayStation desperately needs competition and I've been making this point for a while now and for some reason because obviously we do a lot of PlayStation content people in the comment section were I've seen comments of people being like why are you defending Microsoft why do you want Microsoft to be a threat so on and so forth I want them to be a threat I want them to be competition because there needs to be an entity outside of just the consumer it would be ideal if there's an entity that could check them if they do some nonsense Microsoft would be right there to capitalize on said nonsense and that gets more and more difficult as we are in this era where so many people have built up their digital gaming library and people are just more attached than ever to these consoles I would truly argue that and it's not as easy to make the jump and that is an issue that Phil Spencer has brought up as well where Xbox lost one of the most important Generations in the history of gaming because that was the generation that people built their digital gaming libraries and once you build that digital game Library it's going to be really hard to uh give that up and go to a different platform but as far as the PS5 Pro goes guys I think it's going to sell very well just as long as PlayStation's expectations in Check Yes the majority of the gaming audience The Gamers around the world I would say 80% are going to absolutely crap on the price point but if that 10% of the PlayStation five audience I say 80% because I'm including like Gamers from all different platforms like everybody's having a field day with this but I do feel like if they just have a small percentage of people that are so invested into PlayStation as a platform that they'll buy the PS5 Pro that they'll either convert to All Digital they're already All Digital or they'll spend another $80 on the disc drop then they'll spend money on the vertical stand and then you're talking about them subscribing to ps+ they're going to make a killing off that audience of people and I really do feel like that's how it's going to end up I also do feel like no brand wants this level of vitriol and this level of consumer push back attached to them like they're the laughing stock of social media right now I would imagine they don't want that even if they are going to have the quote unquote whales a few of them a good percent a decent enough percentage of uh percentage enough of them buy the PS5 Pro you don't want to be the laughing stock of social media you don't want everybody piling on piling on you and crapping on you and rightfully so like PlayStation deserve to be cropped on for a long time a lot of people I see like for the last year or so I've been cropping on Playstation pretty hard but this is what happens when the consumer doesn't check them for a while and there's no entity that's going to check them as well and there's no competition they're going to have a field day doing whatever the hell they want but that's going to do it for me let me know all of your thoughts in the comment section down below mainly wanted to mention that this disc drive is going out of stock and it does seem like a lot of people are picking it up so keep that in mind but that'll do it for me your thoughts 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